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No. Carry a notebook. Long after you’ve given the book away, you’ll always have your notes.
by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
No. Carry a notebook. Long after you’ve given the book away, you’ll always have your notes.
- jeremyscanvic 3mo agoDo you have tips to start using notebooks instead of marking books? I personally like to underline stuff in my books, when I start a new novel it's often people, places and events. I'm not sure what would be the notebook equivalent of that. Writing down what I would underline? It seems tedious and you loose context and the sense of proximity between words.
- jarvist 3mo agoFor my textbooks, I use little record cards. I write the book reference on the top line, then whatever notes or quotations etc. If it's a heavily referred to book, I sometimes use different colour cards to mean different things. When I return the book to the library etc., I take all my record cards out and put them in a little perspex index box. Sometimes I use the record cards to then start some more detailed notes in a notebook; sometimes the record cards refer to a page in my notebooks where I've attempted a derivation etc.
- yulker 3mo agowhy not both? mark up the book while you're reading, reflect in your notebook on what you read
- pjmorris 3mo agoExactly. Personally, I gravitate toward book and topic-specific notes and highlights in the book itself and use the notebook for bigger-picture things for which book references play some role. I do a lot of highlighting in ebooks and lately I've started using LogSeq. I'll pull quotes from books into LogSeq and then tag them with whatever #bigger-picture topic I deem relevant, mimicking what I do on paper.
- ndarray 3mo agoThe notes only make sense with context. I'm not interested in copying three or so sentences for every small comment or even just a highlight.
- sodapopcan 3mo agoWho said anything about throwing the book away?
- dredmorbius 3mo agoOr index cards. Zettelkasten. Whilst reading, they double as bookmarks.