Note taking strategy / quant mountain advice
Hi all,
Looking for some advice on note taking while going through GregMat’s I’m Overwhelmed plan.
I’m trying to figure out a better system for reviewing everything in one place. Ideally, I want Quant Mountain to function as my main “catch-all” review tool, but I’m finding that the built-in notes section is somewhat limited because it is text-only.
Here’s the issue I keep running into:
I’ll watch a lesson video and read the related Quant Mountain explanation. I might then add a small note if I think the entry missed an important nuance. But then when I do the follow-up exercises I often notice a trick, caveat, or harder version of the concept that wasn’t fully covered in the video or Quant Mountain entry. Then the same thing happens again with the progress quizzes. I may see a question that exposes a gap in my understanding, and I want to attach that insight back to the original Quant Mountain topic.
Right now, I’ve tried using a running OneNote document where I screenshot problems that confused me or seemed outside the scope of the original lesson. Sometimes I’ll use Claude or ChatGPT to solve the problem, then ask it to summarize the explanation in plain text so I can paste it into the notes section of the relevant Quant Mountain entry. I also played around with NotebookLM, but I didn’t find it especially useful.
My concern is that I’m doing a lot of extra work, but because my notes are spread across Quant Mountain, OneNote, screenshots, and AI summaries, I’m not fully confident that I’m reviewing everything effectively.
Has any super savvy individual found a good system for making Quant Mountain more personalized? Basically, I’m looking for a way to turn it into a true review hub where I can add the extra nuances, traps, and caveats I pick up from exercises and quizzes, so that when I review Quant Mountain later, I’m not just reviewing the surface-level concept but also the harder edge cases I missed along the way.
Would appreciate any advice from people who have found a clean workflow for this.
TLDR: I am hoping to make quant mountain my main source of review but I am struggling because the useful insights I pick up from videos, exercises, quizzes, and chatgpt explanations end up scattered across multiple places. Do you have a great note taking strategy in one place? Please share!