The first one is my preferred method. I leave the phone at home and go to a coffee shop with a notebook and a book. I read, ponder and write as I feel like. I

The first one is my preferred method. I leave the phone at home and go to a coffee shop with a notebook and a book. I read, ponder and write as I feel like. I find that not having anything to distract me allows me to absorb more the reading, and when just pondering, the wandering thoughts get to go to interesting places instead of being censored by the urge to check Twitter. I am still too slow reading books, though, because I don't do this often enough and because I end up interleaving note taking and reading.