Book Notes
Table of Contents
Insights by Alex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fES9ZrLXY9s
The easiest way to create a second brain that lives right on your bookshelf
- First step is to capture as I read the book.
- You want to highlight the important information. If something really resonates with you, sticks out, you want to capture that.
- Create your own table of contents. (in the inside front cover of the book)
- If I find something interesting not only will I highlight it, I'll go back to the front cover of the book and then I'll write down the page number and why I found that interesting
- as I'm reading the book I'm taking down the lessons and then organizing those lessons.
- If I highlight something and If *find it really important I'll put a star next to it and then I'll add it to the table of contents with a star. So I know it's not just important but super important.
- After I finish the book next up would be to distill the information. So I go to the back cover and on the back left hand side I'm distilling the most important lessons I've learned from the book in my own words.
- What lessons did I find important or what did I want to apply that I haven't yet applied.
- The last step in the framework is to express how I could turn those lessons into actionable advice. On the inside of the back cover you have your expression, your interpretation, which is how you're going to apply those lessons exactly.
- I also do on the front cover I write down the day I start a book and on the back cover I write the day I finished it and then I could see like how that kind of changed the trajectory of my life
1. Simple App First
- Use simple note app first. If you hit the ceiling move to a better one.
- I have been trying to figure out how can I digitalize my notes.
- I'll use Apple notes but then usually I'll graduate to another system once I hit like the ceiling and the system breaks.
- So you want the app as your foundation and then once the system breaks or you can't handle it or you need more features then you go to the next app. But for now just stick to the basics of the works and then if you need something better there's always an option out there.
Just like if you are starting on video editing, you don't ask what the big hollywood directors are using.
