What is Smart Wisdom?

SmartWisdom is a scientifically proven way of managing day-to-day knowledge. Whether it’s Knowledge Cultivation (managing your own thoughts and plans) or Knowledge Harvesting (capturing valuable knowledge and insights from others), SmartWisdom offers you an immediate competitive edge.

As an advanced handwritten note-taking method, it combines unique thinking, questioning, and planning techniques to declutter your mind and enhance mental clarity, insight, and certainty. SmartWisdom saves you time, boosts productivity, and reduces stress, supporting mental well-being. By using SmartWisdom, you become an Information Athlete. See testimonials

What Problems Does SmartWisdom Help Solve?

For Professionals & Students

Today’s work an school environments are more demanding than ever, with high expectations, constant information flow, and substantial cognitive demands. Relying on memory, traditional note-taking and typing methods often fall short. SmartWisdom is an invaluable tool which helps you with overcoming:

  1. Work Overload

  2. Information & Meeting Overload

  3. Cognitive Overload and Stress

  4. Listening Limitations

  5. Note-Taking Limitations

  6. Laptop Limitations

“Using SmartWisdom makes me feel more organised, a lot more structured in my thinking, and focused, including on my planning and then note taking.”
— CAROL ANN - Senior Project Manager
“Mentally it helps you to stay focused and that I found is a very powerful technique. It helps you to be more energised.”
— PERTER H.
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— PERTER H.

How Does SmartWisdom Support Mental Well-Being?

The Challenge: Work, information overload, and competing priorities increase stress and impact mental well-being. Cognitive overload can also affect concentration, memory, and decision-making.

How SmartWisdom Helps:

  1. SmartWisdom Time Planner: Refocuses priorities daily, cutting out noise and clarifying key tasks.

  2. Knowledge Cultivation: Organises thoughts for projects, reports, and presentations, reducing mental clutter and increasing preparedness.

  3. Knowledge Harvesting: Enables real-time understanding by capturing valuable knowledge from others while staying fully engaged.

The Science: Scientific studies show a 20% improvement in understanding for regular SmartWisdom users.

How Does SmartWisdom Support Diversity and Inclusion?

The Challenge: Neuro-diverse people often experience challenges in focus, listening, processing new information, memory, and organising thoughts. These can cause stress, fatigue, and reduced confidence.

How SmartWisdom Helps: SmartWisdom makes focus and listening easier while supporting memory and information processing. The techniques of Knowledge Harvesting (capturing knowledge from others) and Knowledge Cultivation (organising personal thoughts and plans) reduce mental strain and increase confidence.

The Science: A study on SmartWisdom users who have dyslexia showed a 23% improvement in real-time understanding of new information compared to others and increased confidence in managing knowledge.

Is SmartWisdom Still Relevant with Modern Technology?

With rapid technological advancements, knowledge management still has significant limitations. SmartWisdom addresses these limitations, providing you with a powerful advantage.

Technology Limitations and How SmartWisdom Helps:

  1. Laptops & Tablets with Keyboards - Laptops can create a physical and mental barrier, reducing engagement in meetings and distracting from real-time understanding and contribution.

  2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) - While AI can record and summarise, it lacks access to your unique insights and reflections in real-time, which are often lost without manual capture. Using SmartWisdom with AI bridges these gaps and offers even more benefits.

The Secret - Combining SmartWisdom with technology and AI—and knowing when to use each tool—helps optimise your cognitive performance, productivity, confidence, and reduces stress.

Meet the Creator – Jonathan Kemp, MSc

I created SmartWisdom in 1995 and began training others in 1998. Today, I continue to develop and refine SmartWisdom’s applications, making it highly practical and valuable for both professionals and students. See the creator’s story