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[Anonymous No.19263554]

how do you organize your reading notes?

[Anonymous No.19263562]

Seconding the question.
I want to make Bible and theology notes but I don't know how to start
How did traditionalist monks do it?

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>>19263554
By author

[Anonymous No.19263572]

>>19263554
In Notepad with parallel chapter/section headers and line quotations if necessary.

[Anonymous No.19263576]

In emacs.
>>19263572

[Anonymous No.19263584]

>>19263572
hm, I’ve been considering doing digital instead to safe space, but I’m hung up on the fact I’ll probably retain more by writing; then again I’m writing notes to retain more anyway

[Anonymous No.19263589]

>>19263584
Also digital is highly prone to being destroyed or lost in the moderm world.

[Anonymous No.19263860]

they are in chronological order

[Anonymous No.19263863]

is it wise to only take notes on your second read? i feel like books that operate as a big picture are better understood with an already established understanding

[Anonymous No.19263864]

I don't. I prefer the Chadly method of hunting through a dozen different notebooks every time I need to look at a note for a book I read two years beforehand.

[Anonymous No.19263872]

>>19263863
no, you are just wasting your time. it is best to paraphrase paragraphs; i would take about 6 minutes per page in my bio textbooks and had a 3.9 reading everything once and studying only the night before, even for finals. if you try hard the first time and learn the material, you don't have to do it twice

[Anonymous No.19263923]

goodnotes in ipad

[Anonymous No.19265481]

Put sticky notes on the pages in the book you would like to come back to. You can go over them after you're done reading and take notes on those parts.