Published on 12, July, 2020
I am trying to study a book, and was advised to make bullet points for important information.
I'm good at remembering select quotes, but always had difficulty with comprehension. Studying for A'Levels, twenty-six years ago, must have caused a burnout; then. Same when doing Final Year at Uni. It wouldn't stick.
Any other tips?
If it's a book that you don't have to return (or you can source your own copy) I would take a multi-pack of highlighters to it and highlight what initially strikes you as important with one colour and then take the other colour and highlight anything else that sticks out on a second reading after you've had a cuppa tea and come back to it, then you can just refer back to the highlighted sections and disregard anything that is probably just distracting filler.
That has to be one of my pet hates when buying a second hand book and finding someone has done this to it. Fair enough if you are going to keep it but it ruins it for anyone who may benefit from it in future IMHO.
I tend to use the little sticky tabs used for signatures on documents to mark where the text is that is of note
If there is a lot of info then some post-its on that page give me also the space to write my own notes without defaing the original.
Each to their own though.
I tried hilighters before, but was obsessive with the hilighting. Too much was hilighted.