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by irajdeep 1271 days ago
A bit tangential question.

> I read it once and took some notes.

Curious to know how you go about taking notes for the books you read.

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So I'm a bit extreme.

I'll either write quotes from a book by hand or type it out on some word processor. But there are times I've typed out or written out entire chapters from a book. And one book I almost transcribed pretty much from end to end.

I think it's pretty inefficient. And I definitely don't recall perfectly. But it does help a lot of the info lodge in deeper than just active reading. Might just be a belief I hold, and I don't really recommend others to do it because it's definitely a lil kooky and time consuming.