This is great and really useful but I reckon you could make the process of watching paint dry(!) sound fascinating. Thought provoking stuff every week; I always look forward to reading your posts :)
I love the end of book workflow. I found that dictating my notes also helps rather than writing. I find myself not being able to write as fast / legible anymore.
Speaking (articulating) still engages the executive function, which slows it down enough for the thoughts to be properly organised.
I like dictating in general, and tend to break out my phone when I have a big complex chunk to get out about a whole page, but it's clunky for quick notes. Just depends on what I'm doing really.
I've converted my marginalia to Obsidian markdown recently and OCRing quotes from physical books was the missing link in my process. Recently came across https://github.com/egdels/makeacopy which is the perfect open source solution. Long live the dead tree book!
I prefer e-books when I'm reading for resource information, but for losing myself in a story, I love Real books. Having said that, I use the library for both as much as possible -- and sometimes the Real book is the only option.
I'm a subscriber to Readwise. For Real books, I use the feature of being able to take a picture of the page(s) I want, including the page number, tagging them, and including my thoughts or reasons for highlighting it in a comment. (If I have a lot to say, I pause to think out loud and record in AudioPen.)
Getting the highlight in with my other highlights lets me find them again easily and have collated for review of the book later as well as use the AI feature there to pull out related materials across all my reading.
I've been very reluctant to get into large-print physical books after my vision loss a few years ago, but this makes me curious to give it a shot! Especially since the nearest library branch's reno will finish up this summer. If nothing else, I too want to model reading analog books for my niblings.
love this - been using more and more "real" books lately (people have given me some, some I find at goodwill for 0.99) and didn't immediately have a solution. I used a notebook and Claude with success, but this spelled out is SUPER helpful. Thank you!
This is great and really useful but I reckon you could make the process of watching paint dry(!) sound fascinating. Thought provoking stuff every week; I always look forward to reading your posts :)
Thank you!! Comments like this keep me going when I'm tempted to just nap instead of write 🙈
I love the end of book workflow. I found that dictating my notes also helps rather than writing. I find myself not being able to write as fast / legible anymore.
Speaking (articulating) still engages the executive function, which slows it down enough for the thoughts to be properly organised.
Yellow highlights are still my guilty pleasure.
I like dictating in general, and tend to break out my phone when I have a big complex chunk to get out about a whole page, but it's clunky for quick notes. Just depends on what I'm doing really.
I've converted my marginalia to Obsidian markdown recently and OCRing quotes from physical books was the missing link in my process. Recently came across https://github.com/egdels/makeacopy which is the perfect open source solution. Long live the dead tree book!
Oh I love this! The FOSS + offline functionality is clutch!
It did drive me a lil bananas when I saw you used a pen to annotate in one book.
Pencil smears and fades!
I prefer e-books when I'm reading for resource information, but for losing myself in a story, I love Real books. Having said that, I use the library for both as much as possible -- and sometimes the Real book is the only option.
I'm a subscriber to Readwise. For Real books, I use the feature of being able to take a picture of the page(s) I want, including the page number, tagging them, and including my thoughts or reasons for highlighting it in a comment. (If I have a lot to say, I pause to think out loud and record in AudioPen.)
Getting the highlight in with my other highlights lets me find them again easily and have collated for review of the book later as well as use the AI feature there to pull out related materials across all my reading.
I've been very reluctant to get into large-print physical books after my vision loss a few years ago, but this makes me curious to give it a shot! Especially since the nearest library branch's reno will finish up this summer. If nothing else, I too want to model reading analog books for my niblings.
Our local library finally finished their renovations after the material costs skyrocketing put construction behind and it's been amazing.
love this - been using more and more "real" books lately (people have given me some, some I find at goodwill for 0.99) and didn't immediately have a solution. I used a notebook and Claude with success, but this spelled out is SUPER helpful. Thank you!
I'm happy it helped! The notebook method is definitely much nicer than postits for me 😂