Organizing all your notes from podcasts, books etc? Best way?

[Ryan Plesz]

Hi everyone!

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE HOW YOU ORGANIZE ALL THE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU LEARN IN REAL ESTATE SO YOU CAN EASILY REFER BACK TO THEM.

I was just wondering what people have found to be the best way to organize all the notes, ideas, rules, strategies etc. that you have learned about from all the podcasts and books so you can refer back to them? I have read a lot of books and have been keeping notes on a Google sheets. I have a few tabs (General RE), (MHP) mobile home park, (Rehab). I keep them in Google sheets so when I'm driving and listening to a podcast and hear something I can just hit the mic and speech to text a note in google sheets. It also makes my notes accessible on other devices. In the spreadsheets I have 1 column (Item) & another (Info). The item column is a few word description of the note and the INFO column is the information. I then organize by the Item column and do a (find) if I want to locate info. Once get a lot of my handwritten notes entered into this spreadsheet I'd be more then happy to post a copy. 

I find that my brain can only hold so much info and I'm just wasting my time if I cannot go back to and recall the major points in a book or podcast. Many times I will also just listen to the 30 or 60 min cliff notes on a book to save time as I do find myself in the analysis paralysis situation at times and need to take action more often.

I also use Evernote if I want to save full articles, and have notebooks for Markets, Rehab, General notes, Property Search. It's a great place to store pictures of homes you are looking at. 

Thanks and look forward to improving my real estate business and making it as efficient as possible!

Ryan Plesz