I’m a sucker for the ways that others interact with books and take notes on the things they’re reading. Simon’s post is very detailed, covering the four main steps in reading books.
- Sourcing
- Choosing
- Reading
- Processing
He even has some fancy scripts that send Amazon books to Airtable and then … that part got to be a bit much for even me. I have a Trello board and on that I organize the books I want to read. I just read the next one on the list. While I’m reading, if a book comes up that looks interesting, I add it to the bottom of the list.
The only change is when I’m working on a writing project and need to read a bunch of stuff in the same topic. Then I comb through the list and adjust it so that the books I need to read topically are at the top.
An interesting service he introduced me to is Readwise. I’ll take a big deeper dive into it later.
Instead of his index cards, I have my resources which I use regularly and contains more than just book highlights. It includes podcasts, academic papers, and interesting blog posts. Plus, you all can search them for content as well.