> The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading. I get what the author is saying, but this is some serious "mistaking correlatio

> The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading. I get what the author is saying, but this is some serious "mistaking correlation for causation" here. I am someone who could hold everything in his mind, never needed a single note, and was constantly baffled why others wrote so many seemingly useless notes. Then I turned 21 and had a trivial operation under general anaesthetic. While the change to my brain function was effectively invisible to people around me, I can tell you I suddenly started needing to write. shit. down. Effectively my mental "desktop space " feels like it has shrunk. I am now a huge fan of Anki; something I would never have needed before my operation.