[knowmad]

Great notes! I recently read Philosophy of Software Design, but decided not to take notes on it because I wanted to finish it in a reasonable time period.

I'm currently a few chapters into a few other books which I chose to take notes on, but it's very slow going and my desire to read those books has decreased because it feels like a slog.

How do you combat the desire to note every little detail (how do you decide what's important)?

Also, do you take notes directly in a text editor, or do you take handwritten notes and then transcribe them later?

[rramadass]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_pr%C3%A9cis

https://www.businessstudynotes.com/personal-skills/precis-wr...

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53680

Take Notes by hand using Paper/Pen/Pencil, use text, diagrams whatever you need to enhance your comprehension; Transcribe later to Computer, if needed.

[elvis10ten]

> How do you combat the desire to note every little detail (how do you decide what's important)?

I try to focus on the general idea of each section in a book.

> Also, do you take notes directly in a text editor

Yes, in markdown.