How to Improve Note Taking

>>9659132
Read each book at least twice since you will never fully grasp it first time

I underline words or short phrases that I find particularly relevant and, for longer passages, mark off the lines with a bracket basically in the margins. Long passages which are less explicitly relevant but I may want to look back to if I return to a text later on, I do something like the bracket, but just little right angles at the top and bottom. Then brief comments in the margins or top/bottom of the page if I want to explain something for future reference. This is mostly for personal reference, so "relevant" being stuff stuff related to my personal interests. Sparingly, I will use asterisks to mark off particularly relevant passages. But I also include a little notation here and there for what seems like key details. This way, if I look back at a book I've read in the past, I can basically just quickly follow through the words / lines I've noted, and that should give me a solid gist of the work.