Reading-Adjacent

Interesting little piece about note-taking, including as related to reading.

Personally, I'm always torn, because I would love to write in a book and really interact with it, especially for turning back to later, but I also hate getting my books messy, and it's not always possible to just write a short note. When I first started grad school I tried keeping a literal note-book: it was just a lined paper notebook, and I'd put the page number, quote whatever passage had stuck me (this was in school books), and then comment. Except sometimes the quotes would get super long and unwieldy, and the comments would start meandering...I think they'd be possibly-to-really interesting to read now (if I ever find them) and potentially could provide little-to-great insight into the workings of my mind if I am every being biographed someday after I get famous and die, but not really that useful in the foreseeable future.

Anyhow:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/note-taking-in-a-clickable-age/#.ULUxoDXigEo.blogger