So after we make reading notes, we need to make a catalog retrieval label. The following methods can not only help you find out the books you read ten years ago, but also remind you of your feelings when reading.
Fortunately, we live in this great information age. When we make catalog retrieval labels, we don't have to make them out of paper or bamboo like the ancients did. This method is laborious and hard to find.
We can use the computer as the index data of reading notes. If you use a computer, even if there are 10 thousand titles in the data, you can find them immediately by clicking on the book with the word' finance' in its title. Of course, for people who read less, it may be enough to use the cover of the notebook as the index material and browse it; But for people who read a lot, this retrieval method is perfect.
So how to use the computer to make index data of reading notes?
Index of reading notes in the document. In this way, you can find the notes you want to refer to by reading the date.
Xiao Ye Xuan, the author of How to Read a Book Effectively, made the index data of reading notes like this:
When inputting index data in notebooks, Xiao Ye Xuanzhi wrote about 200 notebooks into hundreds of lines in the following format:
The information entered is six items: notebook number, reading date, notebook type, title, author and publishing house. For example, the last line says "NoteNo.190,2013". The page on September 5th is a reading note, and the target book is "Black Heart Enterprise".
We are often interested in books in a certain field at a certain stage and unconsciously read many related books.
According to the interest in a certain thing or theory at that time, you can also set keywords when making index materials for reading notes, such as red wine, weight loss, pets, drama, computers, and Italy, Kyoto and Taisho era are also good starting points.
The production format can be as follows:
The words in the box are key words. The purpose of doing this is that when you want to write an article on a certain topic, but you can't find a breakthrough point or material, you can get reference materials at one stroke by searching for keywords, such as searching for the word "media" in the index, and you can get a list mainly based on media or publishing related books.
The method mentioned above is suitable for handwritten reading notes.
In the actual study, I also made an index table of contents, but my reading notes were not handwritten, but made in a word document. I refer to the format introduced by okuno, such as
Then I set up a special folder for storing reading notes on the computer and classified the reading notes. When I want to read a book's reading notes, I will search with keywords or titles in the general folder. In this way, I can find my reading notes quickly and accurately.
Therefore, when studying, we should not only do a good job of reading notes, but also do a good job of indexing them, so as to get twice the result with half the effort.