Many people have the habit of taking reading notes when reading, and some people even have many reading notes.
When taking reading notes, many people just extract whatever is in the book, and their reading notes are just an excerpt at best. Although some people keep reading notes, they only write them down while reading and never look through them again, let alone organize, review, and apply them.
Such reading notes are of no use at all, and ultimately make reading notes a formality and a waste. Only by turning the content in the book into your own knowledge can you reflect the true value and role of reading notes.
So, how to take reading notes? How to take reading notes is the most helpful and effective way for you. It is a question worth thinking about for everyone.
Generally speaking, taking reading notes should have the following six steps.
When we read, we must learn to make a lot of marks on the book. These marks can be underlining important content, putting sticky notes, marking with highlighters, folding pages, etc.
When reading some important content, you can use a pen to draw various lines under the content, which can be straight lines, broken lines, or wavy lines. Different lines represent different feelings. You can draw circles to encircle important concepts and ideas. You can also use a highlighter pen to make a mark.
When you read some important passages, you can take a pen and write one or two sentences next to it to write down your feelings and thoughts at the time.
You can also write the content on sticky notes to remind yourself what this paragraph said, what it reminded me of, and how I should use it in the future. This is the advantage and feature of sticky note reading. .
In the absence of pens and sticky notes, you can also mark important content by folding pages.
After the reading notes are made, the next thing to do is to collect them. Only by collecting can these things be centrally managed by you.
There is a saying in "Organization": If you can't see it, you will forget it. If you can't see it, you won't use it. When you find that you have no idea what's in the book, it's hard to use it when writing.
This is why many people take notes and draw mind maps, but they quickly forget them after reading them, because they have not established a "note-taking system" at all.
When collecting, we need to pay attention to the content in the book that makes us suddenly realize, subvert our cognition, and even go against common sense. What things make your eyes light up, and what things suddenly break your cognition and make you understand that "it turns out that this world is like this" and "it turns out that it can be understood this way." These things are particularly worthy of our attention and collection. Only by collecting it can we further understand what it means.
The best way to collect is: when some important pictures appear in the book, you can try to make them into reading cards, or take pictures and save them in cloud notes for collection.
Other content, such as snippets from books, slogans seen on the road, passages and pictures seen in magazines, can be collected if they are related to the content we are currently paying attention to. .
You must know that every knowledge point can help us better understand the world.
There are many ways to organize, such as reading cards, which turn the fragmented key points extracted from books into systematic knowledge content.
After reading a book, you can summarize a certain chapter, a certain paragraph, or a certain concept, and present the core ideas in a picture, which can be a mind map or a They are diagrams and cartoons to help us understand and digest.
When organizing reading notes, visual methods are generally used.
The visual method can process different information simultaneously. When we look at a picture, we can quickly capture all the content on the picture. But if you are reading a bunch of text, you need to understand it line by line and word by word, because the brain processes pictures and text differently.
Therefore, using presentations, PPT or pictures can help us learn and understand more content in a short period of time. The simpler and clearer the image, the faster the brain can process it. This is also the fundamental reason why people often recommend drawing mind maps.
After collecting reading cards and reading PPT into a note-taking application, the next thing to do is to process these contents.
At this time we can learn from the management methods of libraries. In order to facilitate retrieval, the administrator always organizes books according to categories and places different types of books on different bookshelves.
When we organize reading notes, we also need to be like librarians and organize the collected content into categories.
After collecting the reading cards, classify them according to areas. When we want to find certain information, we can search it quickly.
When organizing and building your own library, you must ask yourself, what areas am I paying attention to right now?
No matter what we focus on is personal management, writing, philosophy, science, etc., we can create corresponding directories in Cloud Notes based on our own interests and hobbies.
It's like building a new library for yourself. What should be placed on each bookshelf and what classification labels should be attached. Based on these labels, you can know where a book should be placed. Set up a catalog based on what you focus on, and then refine it.
The purpose of establishing a personal library is to quickly record and retrieve, making the content more organized and clear. After establishing a systematic directory structure, we can quickly find whatever we want.
In this era of information explosion, reading no longer requires us to memorize too many things. Memory and retrieval can be completely left to artificial intelligence. As long as it can be used when we want to use it, Just find it when you want to use it. The ability that human beings need to strengthen is understanding and learning to judge and integrate knowledge.
We mark, collect, and organize some information, but if it is not output, the information will just be stored in the hard drive or in the book. There are many ways to output:
1. Output reading notes. After thinking and organizing, when outputting reading notes, we will find that we are not only copying the content in the book, but also producing our own opinions and producing some knowledge crystals.
The output will be presented in different forms, such as sharing, writing articles, discussions at gatherings, etc. These are all ways to continuously upgrade the knowledge level and cognition.
2. Make reading cards. You must learn to organize materials from books to make reading cards, and insist on making reading cards every day. Reading cards are easier to write than articles.
3. Make concept cards. The core idea is to clarify the conceptual content. A card actually solves a problem, and the problem is what the concept is.
4. Output the article. Combine these materials, add your own opinions, and restructure it to form a new article.
If we can figure out a concept every day, after a year of accumulation, we can clearly explain and understand all the problems and unclear content in a certain field of concern. Our professional It can be raised to a new level.
Some people think that reading notes means copying down the content or drawing a mind map. In fact, in addition to presenting the content, reading notes also need to be practiced and applied.
The ultimate goal of refining and producing reading notes is to transform them into our actions and apply them to work and life.
The book "The Nature of Learning" says: If we want to truly understand a certain knowledge, we must experience some situations of knowledge creation and dissemination, otherwise it will be difficult to understand the content.
When forwarding an article, you should write a comment to analyze what is good about this article and what your own views are. Once we add our own opinions, the action of forwarding becomes the creation and dissemination of knowledge, which also means that we are ready to understand, or have already understood the content.
After using reading notes to understand the concepts in the book, the next thing to do is to understand the relationship between the concepts.
In this learning era, reading is not only about learning methods, concepts, and models, but also about understanding concepts and designing practical methods based on the concepts.
The difference between a master and a novice is not in skill, but in execution.