Lesson: Let’s talk about the value of keeping a notebook handy while reading, especially when tackling challenging texts. A notebook is a fantastic tool for capturing favorite passages, noting down thoughts, questions, or insights, and essentially deepening your engagement with the concepts. While I recommend the Leuchtturm 1917 for its quality and durability, the choiceContinue reading Day 16 – Let’s Talk About Notebooks
I’ve been keeping a written record of the books I’ve read and memorable or useful quotes or ideas from the books for several years. This year I added a digital sort of notebook in my Notes program on my iPad. I created a file labeled Books as a sub file of all my notes that reside on the cloud so they are available on my iPhone, iMac, and iPad. I don’t know yet if I can alphabetize these notes and I do need to separate out books I’ve read from books recommended to me. As I prepared this response, I decided to better organize my Books folder by adding a TBR sub-file and I’ll spend some time learning if I can alphabetize notes about books I’ve read by book title.
My current method of keeping notes about my books involves 4 workable processes:
1. I maintain a chronological list of books I have read by year noting book title, author, source of the book, whether digital or hard copy.
2. I keep an alphabetical list of authors (one page for each) with which of their books I have read and when.
3. I use my iPad Notes program with a folder I’ve named Books with the book title for the heading for each of the notes. Here I keep AI and other sources that may deeply analyze or summarize the book.
4. I use Composition Books to organize by book title (matching the chronological order) a page or so for each book where I write title, author, when read, my evaluation of the book, my reactions, feelings, and personal applications of note about the characters, author, themes, etc.
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