When taking reading notes, many people extract things from books, and their reading notes are only excerpts at best. Some people remember reading notes, but they only write them down when they are reading, and then they never turn them over, let alone organize their review applications.
Such reading notes are useless at all, which eventually makes reading notes a form and a waste. Only by turning the contents of the book into your own knowledge can you reflect the real value and function of reading notes.
So, how to take reading notes? How to make reading notes is the most helpful and effective for yourself, which is a question worthy of our consideration.
Generally speaking, there are six steps to take reading notes.
When reading, we should learn to make many marks on the book. These marks can be lines drawn under important content, post-it notes, markers with fluorescent pens, folded pages, etc.
When reading some important contents, you can draw various lines under these contents with a pen, which can be straight lines, broken lines and wavy lines. Different lines represent different feelings. You can draw pictures and circle important concepts and viewpoints. You can also mark it with a highlighter.
When reading some important paragraphs, you can write a sentence or two with a pen and write down your feelings and experiences at that time.
You can also write the content on a post-it note to remind yourself what this passage said, what it reminds me of, and how to use it in the future. This is the advantage and characteristic of the post-it note reading method.
In the absence of pens and post-it notes, you can also use folding to mark important content.
The reading notes have been written, and the next thing to do is to collect them. Only by collecting these things can you manage them centrally.
There is a saying in Histology that if you can't see it, you forget it, and if you can't see it, you don't need it. When you find that you have no idea what's in this book, it's hard for you to use them when writing.
This is why many people take notes and draw mind maps, but they will soon 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 cognition and even counter-common sense. What makes your eyes shine, what suddenly breaks your cognition and makes you understand that "the world is like this" and "it can be understood like this". These things are particularly worthy of our attention and collection. Only by collecting it can we further understand its meaning.
The best collection method is: when some very important pictures appear in the book, you can try to make reading cards, or take pictures and save them in cloud notes for collection.
Other contents, such as fragments from books, slogans seen on the road, a passage seen in a magazine and a picture, can be collected if they are related to what we are concerned about at present.
You know, every knowledge point can help us better understand the world.
There are many ways to organize, such as reading card, which is to turn the fragmented focus extracted from books into systematic knowledge content.
After reading a book, we can summarize a chapter, a paragraph and a concept, and present the core idea in the form of a picture, which can be a mind map, a schematic diagram or a cartoon diagram to help us understand and digest.
When sorting out reading notes, we usually use visual methods to deal with them.
Visualization can process different information synchronously. When we look at a picture, we can quickly capture all the contents in the picture. But if you read a bunch of words, you need to understand them line by line, because the brain processes pictures and words differently.
Therefore, briefings, PPT or pictures can help us learn and understand more content in a short time. The simpler and clearer the image, the faster the brain can process the image. This is also the fundamental reason why people often recommend drawing mind maps.
After collecting the reading cards and reading PPT as a note application, the next thing to do is to deal with these contents.
At this time, we can learn from the management mode of the library. In order to facilitate retrieval, administrators always classify books by category and put different kinds of books on different shelves.
When sorting out our reading notes, we also need to sort out these collected contents in categories like librarians.
After collecting reading cards, classify them by field. When we want to find some information, we can search quickly.
When sorting out and building my own library, I must ask myself, what fields am I paying attention to at present?
No matter what we care about, such as personal management, writing, philosophy, science and so on. , we can establish the corresponding directory in cloud notes according to our own hobbies.
It's like building a new library for yourself, what to put on each shelf and what to label. According to these labels, you can know where a book should be put. What kind of directory is set according to the content you care about, and then refine it.
The purpose of establishing a personal library is to record and retrieve quickly and make the content more coherent and clear. After establishing the directory structure of the system, we can quickly find anything we want.
In this era of information explosion, reading no longer requires us to remember too many things. Memory and retrieval can be completely completed by artificial intelligence, as long as we want to use it, we can find it if we want to use it. The ability that human beings need to strengthen is to understand and learn to judge and integrate knowledge.
We mark, collect and sort out some information, but if we don't output it, it just exists on the hard disk or in the book. There are many ways to output:
1, output reading notes. After thinking and sorting out, when we output reading notes, we will find that we not only copy the contents of books, but also have our own opinions and some knowledge crystallization.
The output will be presented in different forms, such as sharing, writing articles, gathering and discussing, etc. These are all ways to improve knowledge and cognition.
2. Make reading cards. We should learn to make reading cards from books and insist on making reading cards every day. Reading cards are easier to write than articles.
3. Make a concept card. Its core point is to clarify the concept content. A card actually solves a problem, and this problem is what this concept is.
4. output the article. Combine these materials, add your own point of view, restructure and form a new article.
If you can figure out a concept every day and accumulate it for one year, you can explain all the problems and unclear contents in a certain field that you are concerned about, and your professionalism can reach a new level.
Some people think that reading notes is to copy down the content or draw a mind map. In fact, reading notes are not only about presenting content, but also about practice and application.
We refine and make reading notes, and the ultimate goal is to turn reading notes into our actions and apply them to work and life.
The book "The Essence of Learning" says: If you want to really understand a certain knowledge, you must go through some scenes of knowledge creation and dissemination, otherwise it is difficult to understand the content.
When forwarding the article, write a comment and analyze what is good about this article and what is your opinion. Once we add our own opinions, this forwarding action becomes the creation and dissemination of knowledge, which also means that we are ready to understand or have understood this content.
After understanding the concepts in the book with reading notes, the next thing to do is to understand the relationship between concepts.
In this era of learning, reading is not only learning methods, concepts and models, but also understanding concepts and designing practical methods based on concepts.
The difference between a master and a novice lies not in kung fu, but in execution.