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by foldedcornice 1440 days ago
To add an example of a brilliant person who operated in a different way via heavy note-taking, philosopher Mortimer J. Adler advocated for note-taking for books that are important to study, after doing an initial read deliberately without note-taking (called "superficial reading").

He wrote a book about it—"How to Read a Book," published in 1940—which was summarized by the Farnam Street blog: https://fs.blog/how-to-read-a-book/