Mine is to write notes on the first blank white page inside the book—just a simple one-line summary that helps me reconnect with each of the book’s ideas, definitions, and data points when I return to it. Also, the actual act of writing down such notes helps me understand each concept on the spot and makes me more likely to retain it. I write the p

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Writing notes is really pretty easy, once you get the hang of it. And it’s a way of proving to yourself (and eventually, to others) that you’ve understood the text. Our notes can also provide us some clues into what in a text actually interested us. Where a source’s ideas really excite us, notes will cluster. Even so, we should try to write a separ

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