(2023-03-17) Ebooks For Efficient Notetaking

Jorge Arango: Ebooks for Efficient Note-taking. Reading sometimes feels like a conversation with the author. I’ll come across an idea in a book or paper that sparks a thought — my ‘response.’ It may be a connection with another idea, a reference to another book, a quote that resonates, or something else. Whatever it is, I don’t want to lose it, so I take notes while reading. cf My Book Reading Process

what I use most often: digital notes on ebooks and PDFs. Using Kindle or another e-reader, I can annotate books digitally while reading. Most apps let you highlight text (often in different colors) and leave text notes that become metadata in the book or paper’s file.

I use Readwise to download annotations I’ve made while reading in Kindle apps or devices, Apple Books, or several other e-reading apps. With Readwise’s Obsidian plugin, these notes and highlights flow as plain text into my note-taking repository. There, I can reference them from other notes.