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When you are reading a book, take a few notes on the inside back cover (stick a post-it on there if you don't want to write on the actual cover).
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These notes should include page numbers (very important) for the crucial points in the book.
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a system where he would flag passages in a book to come back to when he was reading, and then when he ended the reading session he would copy the passages out of the book and into his notes
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it sounds like it might cut down on the frustration of switching out of reading mode to type
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If it's your book, make marks in the margin. If not, take notes on index cards (much handier than notebooks).
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Fewer books to consider simultaneously mean that more material from those books will stick in long-term memory, which cuts out time wasted looking up things over and over again in books you don't really remember because you read them too quickly the first time.
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quality of reading trumps quantity of books read
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I read straight through with minimal note-taking, only making marks in the margins to remind me of a useful passage. At the end of the book, I go back and look at all the marginalia again and then write notes on whatever turned out to be important. Passages I identify as important before finishing the book more often than not are insignificant, so it's a waste of time for me to take notes as I go.
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a digital camera can be your personal portable scanner with good light and high resolution
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Just make a note about the picture number with the author, title, and a short description.
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1) write down items/quotes/entire passages verbatim/citations/whatever into a SINGLE notebook which i took with me everywhere
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2) at least once a week i would type all the still relevant information into my laptop into one large text file
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3) at least once a month i would then arrange/re-arrange these bits and pieces to reflect my skeletal thesis outline [which of course was an everchanging/evolving monstrosity]
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4) i would email this file to myself for a back up copy
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I found that keeping the processing of information routine kept things fresh and integrated instead of continually having to revisit what I did 6 months ago.
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Also keeping a queue of emailed versions allowed me to return to particular thought patterns that I might have dis-integrated as I moved forward.
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It sounds like you need one of those pens that works like a digital highliter - you run it over the text you want, and it saves it digitally to be input into a computer later.
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I suppose that this solution is anti-memory retention, though.
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I read somewhere that the process of writing something down, and not typing it, is a better technique for remebering things. Something about the neuro-motor connection.
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Long-hand seems better for retention and for working out ideas in my head as I go.
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I put all my notes into a single sequence -- and instead of arranging them by subject, I just left them in the order in which I'd made them. This meant that, if I was searching for a particular reference ('now where did I put my notes on Foucault?') I didn't have to waste time rummaging through fifteen different files; I could be certain that the reference would be somewhere in the main sequence, and all I had to remember was roughly when I'd made it ('ah yes! I was reading that book sometime last summer'), instead of having to reconstruct the index heading I might have filed it under.
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The key to this system was not to worry too much about subject arrangement -- to keep the subject-headings as general as possible -- and to concentrate on the physical control of the files.
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Steven ShaoAnd it's a good sign. One of the best pieces of advice I was given by my dissertation supervisor was to '
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10 Apr 09
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I was advised not to take notes, to trade my desktop PC in for a laptop and never read a thing when I wasn’t next to the computer. I was told to simply get writing, draft and redraft with each new piece of info and reading. It took me a while to realize that my advisor wasn’t insane but once I did, I skated to the finish. The most important lesson was asking myself ‘how does this literally change what I have to say’ and so realizing very quickly how much of the available material is not at all relevant. I remember she said something about the romance of the PhD being sustainable only as far as one ignored the invention of the word processor. And something else about writing and thinking being the same thing. I’m sure its not for everyone but I think she was right. -
1) write down items/quotes/entire passages verbatim/citations/whatever into a SINGLE notebook which i took with me everywhere
2) at least once a week i would type all the still relevant information into my laptop into one large text file
3) at least once a month i would then arrange/re-arrange these bits and pieces to reflect my skeletal thesis outline [which of course was an everchanging/evolving monstrosity]
4) i would email this file to myself for a back up copy -
I incorporate important material directly into a draft of something, or a handout for a presentation. You will remember stuff so much better that you have tried to explain and exemplify in your own words.
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read promiscuously'
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the freedom to read promiscuously is a rare privilege. Make the most of it while you can
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22 Oct 08
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A teacher at school had a system where he would flag passages in a book to come back to when he was reading, and then when he ended the reading session he would copy the passages out of the book and into his notes
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It seems like your question isn't so much about notetaking as it is about developing an efficient reading and retention process.
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pgayeddon't blog this—contact josh and ask him why he gave up on DevonThink, and how everything is going...
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