Why Your Highlighting Habits Are Letting You Down

attention is a habit, and that letting your attention slip and wander builds bad habits and enables mistakes.

The rule of thumb to follow is that every time you “touch” a note, you should make it a little more discoverable for your future selfVII—by adding a highlight, a heading, some bullets, or commentary.

Mistake #1: Over-Highlighting

Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. At the end of your life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been. So when you pay attention to something you don’t especiall

Unless I highlight those points in a way that my future self can instantly grasp, I’ll likely never see them again.