if you are taking more elaborate notes it depends on your purpose and personal pref - a few pts:
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @ETDEUMPURITAS
- useful to have an index card for tangential notes (like words you want to look up, off-topic facts you didn’t know) so they don’t clutter up the real notes
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-notes are v different depending on whether the goal is to avoid needing to look at book again, or not (eg should you make extracts? include lots of page
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what do u mean by extracts? and how does one avoid excessive note taking? thank you for all this btw its extremely helpful
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like if you are doing a research project you may want to write down a line verbatim so you can quote it w/o finding book again or if you want to memorize a great line
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two basic ways to avoid excessive note-taking: 1. commit to reviewing all your notes regularly. this is a huge chore and you’ll quickly learn how much is too much - won’t write it unless you want to see it again
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2. impose some physical limit on how much notes you can take - eg allowing max 1 sheet of paper (just one side), or by writing really big, sticky notes/index cards like i said
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the physical limit can also be time - if you have eg 1 hr to take notes and then that means 15min per 1/4, whelp - that’s that.
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this works best if you are recording how much time you spend on xyz, and esp if you have a planned schedule and you record how close you come to your goal
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an alternative is to read bk then take notes (prevents over-focusing on whatever page you happen to be on) or - if you’re really daring - read bk A, then read bk B, then take notes on A, then read C, then take notes on B...
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that’s a little fancy and has 2 drawbacks - you start to forget and its easy to be lazy and not do the notes - but the value is you keep everything in perspective; when you’re taking notes on A, B seems rly important and you want to get A over with
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(i’m prolly going overboard on the physical-limits stuff b/c reviewing your notes is the more efficient technique; btw a variant is to use programs like anki to take your notes in the form questions whose answer you want memorize)
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