I take notes for the purpose of translating interesting facts into quizbowl questions (a type of trivia question, see quizbowlpackets.com). For this purpose, my

I take notes for the purpose of translating interesting facts into quizbowl questions (a type of trivia question, see quizbowlpackets.com). For this purpose, my system of recording info is pretty simple. It's just highlighting where in the paragraph the interesting bits start. I do this with a pen for paper books/magazines and the highlight feature in Pocket for digital stuff. For audiobooks, I'd love to have the text available to directly highlight but since I usually don't, I'll try to put some approximation or exact quote into OneNote. I'll later see if I can do a Google Books search for that passage, and if not I'll see if I can get the physical book from the library or buy it if needed. Anyway, once I have these, I periodically go back and turn these facts into questions or parts of questions. Sometimes my highlight is just for one word or idea that I want to expand. Other times there's enough content there to be a paragraph-long (or more) question on its own. Because I'm usually supplementing what I've highlighted with other information about the topic (Wikipedia, Google Books, paper encyclopedias I have, online library resources, websites), it's a slow process. But it's good for retention purposes. I save these things in OneNote and they eventually become full questions. Some right away, some from repeated versions of this process over years.