Thoughts on One Month of Note Taking

As previously stated in my last monthly log, I've started taking notes on the books I read. It's been a month now since I started, and I think I got enough data to draw some conclusions! This is a report on the matter, and something I hope might help if you're also someone who'd like to take notes to better remember the stuff you read. I'll be retelling my approach with each book I've read so far. L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello (Oliver Sacks)Starting up with a non-fiction book about the human mind and peculiar neurological conditions, around 300 pages long. I write my notes in a little A6 notebook, and I filled up precisely 11 pages in tiny, packed letters. At the beginning, I wrote down a synthesis of each chapter as I finished it, then I "filled them up" later after finishing a reading session, sometimes even a day or two after. I read this one in digital, so I also highlighted some parts as I read with the idea of coming back to it later; some highlights were made…