Sean's Notes
Powered by 🌱Roam GardenField Report 5: How I Prepare Reading and Processing Effective Notetaking by Fiona McPherson
Key Points Extracted
On Processing a Book to Add to your knowledge management system
set clear expectations and why I am reading a book.
I review the table of content to generate a mental map. Since the book is on note-taking, I am very familiar with the topic. I needed just 2 minutes for this step. The book is separated into three main parts:
Selecting strategies
Connecting strategies
Application
I come up with an hypothesis what the core idea of the book is. EG: The book is not about good atomic notes. It is about the effects of various ways of note-taking, the process of note-taking.
Bonus: How to Read Effective Notetaking to Improve Your Personal Iteration of the Zettelkasten Method
This is the current flow diagram of the Zettelkasten Method for the upcoming book.
I mapped the various sections of the book to the flow diagram to show you how my model of the Zettelkasten Method will absorb what I will find in the book:
Research
Reading and Learning by Identification
- Highlighting important information
- Headings highlight structure
- making notes in lectures
Excerpts and Learning by Reformulation and Association
- Making note-taking an effective strategy
- Summaries
- Graphic summaries
- Understanding connection
- Elaboration strategies
- Concept maps
Processing and by Reformulation and Association
- Making note-taking an effective strategy
- Understanding connection
- Elaboration strategies
9 .Concept maps
Structuring, Integrating and Learning by Integrating
- Making note-taking an effective strategy
- Elaboration strategies
Drafting
Putting into practice