How To Take Effective Notes When Reading

Productive note taking 1. have accessories ready 2. have a question in mind before you start 3. highlighting resonating ideas after reading full page 4. Take notes after reading every single chapter using active recall 5. Write down 5-10 principles after reading producitvity/ skill book based on the initial questions 6. Review notes regularly (e.g. by transfering notes to computer)

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1. Have your pen, highlighter, and bookmark ready 2. Write down on the front page of your book *your objective (why should I read this book?) 3. Highlight + Notate in your own words what's impactful for you *only after reading a page 4. Summarize *own words, what you've learned after each chapter 5. Write down your "Actionable Takeaways" *5-10 6. Review Notes Once or Twice a week *write it down and transfer to computer

Finally! A person who doesnt ramble on for 2 minutes before getting to the point! This was brilliantly to the point. Thank you!

Thank you for highlighting a whole page just for the sake of demonstrating to us ^-^

“Ask yourself a question before you begin…” WOW thank you!

The idea to summarize a chapter with my own words is fantastic. Thank you!

The video was short, yet so precise, useful and actually informative. With no fluff.

Book reading process 1. Think of a broader question before you start reading a book or a chapter of the book, this helps to have a vision while reading and you don’t loose interest. 2. Get ready with your journal, highlighter, pencil and pen - all the accessories you need while reading, to set the environment for reading. 3. Read a page, then highlight - don’t blindly highlight everything you read. Use a pencil to write short key words or notes (this helps to have active participation) 4. After completing a chapter, make your book notes in your journal - life up the important points, the key phrases and learning and write them down as it is. 5. The most important point, after you are done lifting the important pointers, use the second short journal to summarise the notes in your language without looking at any of the material. This is the ‘active recall technique’. 6. After completing the book, answer the question you initially were hunting in five good, summarised pointers- this helps you to review the book and gives you credible answers to your question which you could then put to practice. 7. As a habit, after you’re done with the above process and also done with a particular book, visit your notes frequently.

I'm on a wave of reading self-help books this year and I've read many articles and watched various YouTube videos showing tips, but mostly they're oriented towards aiming good grades–which is very useful–but not when you're already outside the academic context. This one, I believe, suits with reading non-fiction books better. This is the first time I encountered asking yourself and going back to that question after each chapter to see how you'll implement it. I want to add on the last part that in addition to transferring notes to a computer (great for recall), one may reflect and review on how you've progressed in your personal and professional life after engaging with the book. Thank you. I seldom like videos (because they serve as bookmarks for me) and this one is one I'll definitely add to the list. (Wishful thinking, but what if the same could be done for novels? Or maybe that's too "nerdy" 😅)

This was formidable! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much Aun for such great tips! Good luck with the channel and keep the good work. Take care!!

Short, helpful, to the point. Thanks, brother!

That's the video I've been searching for! Thanks for your tips💡

Excellent video. Everything to the point and presented in a logical manner. I’ve learned about ideas I need to try out for myself.

Thank you for this insightful video!✨

Excellent tips.i used to take notes this way during literature review for my research. Felt so productive after successfully summarising several articles using these techniques over the years.

Thank you so much. Awesome points, I will definitely put them into use. I really appreciate the lenght of the video - quick yet everything important was said

Fantastic advice - thank you so much! I prefer to hand-write my favorite quotes from a digital copy of the book into a journal because it helps me remember more but I LOVE the idea of trying to summarize a whole chapter in your own words.

this was incredibly helpful, great video