/lit/ - Literature

>>16463811
i began accumulating notes and highlights from all the books i've read from the past two months—and it's a fucking superpower. imagine having a distilled distillation of a book of already distilled knowledge combined with other distillations of already-distilled books from authors. imagine encountering an unknown scenario in your life, you flip through your personal-google notebook, and realize somebody experienced a similar scenario, and now, you have a light in a dark path. imagine that you want to create new ideas, so you look at your personal-google notebook, and combine several unrelated ideas, making those ideas have sex, and then producing a rather unique idea. imagine you want to write something, like a book or an essay, and instead of reading sources which could take hours upon hours and days upon days, you already of such sources with quotes and statistics readily available on command. imagine permanently getting rid of writers block because you have collected thousands of experiences from authors. imagine of having three libraries: one filled with all the books you have read, one filled with books you have not yet read, and one filled with notebooks of books you have read

i do see a problem with accumulating notes, and that it gives a feeling of gluttony and fake usefulness