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title: "Note taking"
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- (Something about choosing good sources?)<span id='QNtd8WmE4'/>
- First make it easy to **Capture**.<span id='iLveamHyX'/>
- **Progressive summarization**. It’s actually good to wait a bit after you’ve read something. Maybe it’s never relevant again - that’s OK. But make sure it’s findable (at least a few keywords etc, as well as the date context, if you remember you read something at a certain time)<span id='6vDxve3AB'/>
- &#8203;<mark>If you do come back and decide to use it, the time that has gone has helped you see what is truly important. Re-reading it in itself helps with the memory (repetition), and you might see new connections based on other things you’ve read/thought about in the meantime. </mark><span id='hEfTK6uCR'/>
- At this point, you might add hashtags to specific points, add your own questions or comments etc. **Tiago Forte** recommends highlighting, not sure how useful that is for Roam? I’m also wondering about deleting irrelevant notes - especially for Twitter threads etc?<span id='KXVhwmD5u'/>
- If it’s an important source (ie. if you ever want to specifically remember what that book was about, as opposed to just using some of the ideas), you might do a formal writeup - create a page for the authors/the book, summarize the contents (chapters) etc.<span id='EFv9X8t3h'/>
- When there are important ideas, you try to create a **Permanent Notes (concept)**. Declarative name, full sentences etc. This can come from an argument in a book that you summarise, or from an assortment of snippets and your own thoughts that you have captured.<span id='GZIjRhIek'/>
- In the Permanent Note, you can also be more explicit about linking to sources and evidence.<span id='DM1gw9grD'/>
- You list the Permanent Notes on a TOC page, and tag them so that you can filter. You should also make links between Permanent Notes to create **[[Zettelkasten]]-p**<span id='UO9wQOcIs'/>