How to (actually) REMEMBER What You Read

How to (actually) REMEMBER What You Read - 7 Tips

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I basically learn for a living. I read lots and lots of books, journal articles, philosophy and theology papers, and I talk about ideas with the authors on my podcast or I present the ideas to you on this channel, or I synthesize my own ideas for my Substack audience. So it's very important for me to remember what I've read. As I've become a better researcher, I've discovered at least 7 ways to help myself remember what I've read and in this video I share those with you.
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0:00 - Overview
1:20 - Write in your books (Marginal Notes)
7:56 - Reader's Compendium
10:31 - Personal Reader's Dictionary
11:50 - Reading Log
13:24 - Book of Book Reviews (and Précis)
15:21 - Commonplace Books (4 kinds)
17:51 - Active Recall
19:22 - Only for the Real Ones!
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@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@stiwe122 Ай бұрын

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@judeperera3947 Ай бұрын

Your videos are awesome! Entertaining and educational at the same time! 🙏🙏🙏

@HawkeyeVoid Ай бұрын

Something really helpful with marginal notes is when I find an empty page in the front or end of the book. When I mark something impactful, I go to the empty page, write a short phrase describing it and the page number so I can go back to that exact quote later. It’s soooo useful because there’s an index of quotes that are recorded in the book itself.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I like that!

@emmerypoppleton7921 Ай бұрын

I personally love this style since it keeps the text "clean." It's often important to me that my ideas from reading are mainly influenced by the text and not by what I used to think. Keeping my ideas separate yet close has been a game changer! If there's no extra pages (or not enough), I will tape a blank booklet of pages in the back.

@sowercookie Ай бұрын

It must be a cultural difference that people don't write in their books, because I've been told to underline, circle, highlight, scribble, dogear, do everything I can in my books by teachers and elders my whole life. When my grandpa passed it was fascinating getting all his books and finding almost every page filled with his thoughts, they really are a treasure and I hope my books can be that way for my descendants.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

This is so awesome! Yeah a bunch of my friends get angry at me for writing in my books lol

@noeditbookreviews Ай бұрын

I can't do it. I'll use other paper and make little 15-second videos, but I can't write in my books. I don't even like highlighting my school books, all of which I try to keep.

@TheXabl0 Ай бұрын

Maybe it’s growing up in lower income areas where books were shared with multiple people (likely cross different classes be inability to easily replace)? Just. Thought

@dawnmoon90 Ай бұрын

I mean a lot of people grew up reading in the library and borrowing from the library. So you won’t develop a habit of writing in books, often quite the opposite, you tend to be careful not to damage it.

@coltoncarlson6334 Ай бұрын

From a different pan, it has been proven by educational psychologists that marking up the text that you are reading and interacting with your notes that way greatly increases your chances of processing that information into your long-term memory. So, I whole-heartedly agree: mark your books! Fantastic video, Parker.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

My man! Thanks for this! I need to look that up, and then mark it up!

@allen5455 21 күн бұрын

We have our older homeschool students, ninth to twelvth grade, write lesson plans and teacher's guides. They really enjoy this and seemingly mature faster than their public school counterparts, nemeses. Our motto is a question: "Is it useful?" Beyond this we cite Abraham Flexner: "Use from useless things." We encourage something from Adler and Hutchins: "The Great Conversation." Think, speak, write. And always listen.

@euruskreacatoa2370 Ай бұрын

Hey ParkNotes! I only discovered you recently but thanks to you and your notebook system ive never felt so productive in my life. You genuinely saved my curiosity and goals and one day I will achieve them and it will be thanks to you.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Wow that's fantastic! I'm so glad to hear this. Curiosity is everything. So glad you've been able to restoke it

@euruskreacatoa2370 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes I couldn’t have done it without you. I was always interested in journaling and maintaining written information but I just never knew how to do it systematically, I lost a lot of money and ruined many good books doing so. Now I can start over and actually become the scholar I want to be!

@buffjenni Ай бұрын

i love your content, you're literally my fav youtuber - keep on going! 💪

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I am truly honored! Thank you 🤝🤝

@fional4696 Ай бұрын

I came across your channel about a month ago and I just want to say a big thank you for the ideas you’re sharing. Since watching your videos I’ve started a commonplace book and a personal proverbs book. These are in addition to my personal journal and book reading records I have used for several years. Having a more deliberate method for interacting with the nonfiction texts I read has really helped me retain more of that information. It reminds me of how much I enjoyed it when I did my honours degree in Sociology about 12 years ago.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Let's go! That's so cool. Personal proverbs and commonplace books are probably my favorites. I love to see more people benefitting from them! Thanks for sharing 🫡

@DOL3rd 24 күн бұрын

Dune Messiah is my favorite too! It's so epic! The throne room scene, the palace imagery, trippiness as his prescience matures and the events after the stoneburner are all some of my favorite things in the series

@AndersonDePaula-ed9rv Ай бұрын

Hello, I'm Brazilian and I'm really enjoying your channel, excellent content. thanks.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌 I'm so glad!

@Palopoli Ай бұрын

hey parker, I'm from brazil and about a month ago (inspired by you) I started a commonplace book and a catch all notebook. And now i'm all into it and already having a lot of ideas to buy and use more pocket notebooks. Thank you a lot and keep going!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Let's goo! I love it. So glad you're enjoying it

@Gruso57 Ай бұрын

I would love a shelf tour. It seems you have a lot to show and I think it would be interesting.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I'll do it

@Enhancedlies Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes yesss

@Deadguy41 Ай бұрын

Always thrilled for your new videos! Keep making these great vids!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌 thank you!

@Deadguy41 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes your welcome! By the way, just a quick question, have you any episode on your podcast that kind of deal with the difference between something and the philosophy of that thing like, For example, difference between productivity and the philosophy of productivity

@gobgaming2725 Ай бұрын

📚 Thanks for further igniting my strive for knowledge. Recently I’ve been at a loss of what to read and why even read, but your videos have been helping me rediscover the why and my love of wisdom. Thanks brother!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Thanks incredible!! I'm so glad to help, truly!

@secretaryisabelle Ай бұрын

📚 Thank you for another informative video, good sir! I take notes on my commonplace book whenever I watch your videos to remember and re-read 😊 All the best in your pursuits!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! 🤝🤝

@ken16fujita Ай бұрын

Your video always encourages me to learn philosophy. I am not an English native speaker, but your video is very clear and easy to understand for me. Thanks a lot!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I am so glad!! Thank you too!

@mohammedbelemgarni6587 Ай бұрын

I really love the techniques you shared. I need to adopt one of those as soon as possible! ❤✨

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌

@Katiedora122 Ай бұрын

I watch a lot of booktube content, and it definitely inspired me to start a reading journal. There are so many different ways of setting it up (some people are super into tracking all the minute stats of what they read, and others just want a really aesthetic memory page), and I've tried a few different ways over the past few years. I read a pretty high volume of books in every format, and I like writing out reviews for books I really loved or really hated, but I think keeping up with my quote book is the most consistent thing I do. I've got a variety of highlighters, tabs, and sticky notes decorating most of my physical books, though.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Sounds like you're in deep 👏👏

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Quote books are the best 🙌

@bujobyfilo Ай бұрын

Hey, notebook addict here from Spain! I love your channel, it's very interesting and I appreciate that you express yourself in a very natural way. I started with a journal, then added a bullet journal and then a reading journal, and now I'm starting something that could be what you call a commonplace book for other deep reflexions. So I think I'm in the right place :)

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Haha you definitely are in the right place! So glad you found my channel. Always great to meet a kindred soul!

@Soup.of.Mandrake Ай бұрын

📚 📚 📚I took my required précis from grad school and started using it with my recreational reading. So I was pleased to hear it was one of your suggestions.

@sungjinstudytube7312 Ай бұрын

📚 I've been using few of them from a years and its really something that helped me to get myself together. Thanks for these other helpful tips, I'll definitely try them.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I'm so glad!! 🫡🫡

@kcoxx691 Ай бұрын

I’m enjoying your videos keep up the good work.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I'm so glad! Thank you!

@shahriarSiddique-my9lw Ай бұрын

Thanks. learned a lot of things from you. 📚📚📚

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌🙌

@HK-nc3gk Ай бұрын

📚 Thanks to you. After watching your videos I've started maintaining pocket notebooks and commonplace notebooks which are helping me a lot specially pocket notebook. From the past few months I've been writing in my pocket notebook and it is a good substitute for a mobile phone in leisure and it helped me a lot to get some clarity in my thoughts. There a lot more things which I have to learn from you and your channel. Have a good day!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Let's go!! This is a huge encouragement to read. Thanks for sharing. I'm glad others are using these tools and finding them valuable

@underthecanopy1093 23 күн бұрын

This was EXACTLY what i was looking for 🎉

@ParkerNotes 23 күн бұрын

🙌🙌🙌🙌

@oscarcastanon3158 Ай бұрын

Hi Parker. I bump into your channel some weeks ago and I like how you tackle your knowledge management system. While I’m back to hand-writing notes (for on-the-spot registering), I do gravitate to Obsidian to keep my own “compendium notebooks”. Maybe you’ve heard/seen this in other comments & videos and this hybrid analog/digital system has helped me to organize my learning & knowledge management. Keep it up! (love your philosophical podcasts too!) 📚

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

So glad you found my channel! Thanks for this. If obsidian reaches out I'll definitely try them.

@amokbel Ай бұрын

📚 I like this idea of notebooks for different topics. Makes me feel like I’m back in school where I had a different notebook per topic. The main difference is that the topics are not things I am actually interested to learn about.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Totally agree!

@darrellmacleod202 Ай бұрын

📚 this was a great video. I’m thankful for your ideas on how to retain the material I read. Starting to push myself to markup books. You are inspiring. The legend was gold!!! 😊❤🙏

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🫡🫡🫡 I'm pumped my stuff can inspire you bro!

@rlo3358 Ай бұрын

📚 great video here, I've been getting into reading more and more and these methods are great! Thank you!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Awesome!!

@annfender 22 күн бұрын

My problem is I never go back to read anything I write in my commonplace book, I don’t even remember I wrote something.

@ParkerNotes 9 күн бұрын

I keep mine in places where I'll see them or else I'll forget too

@SleepyCJCC Ай бұрын

This video is very helpful. I watched your video on the best method to develop a reading habit and the reading log has helped a lot. Only started 2 weeks ago. Since implementing it, I noticed a shift from opening Instagram or KZfaq on my phone, to opening my Kindle or grabbing a paperback to read. I'm currently reading through 3 books right now, but in the last 2 weeks, I finished 2 books with the reading log. Thank you! I have a couple of questions: - For Kindle books (or eBooks in general), you use a reading compendium, correct? It's especially hard to write notes on a Kindle, even on an iPad. I find it difficult sometimes to track these notes down. - Generally speaking, do you have a notebook for *literally* everything? Or for compendiums, do you keep a notebook based on a topic or genre? - I didn't know that I've been doing "commonplace books" for quotes. I'm a pastor/teacher-preacher at my church, so I tend to collect quotes from books and articles on Obsidian. For commonplace books, are they just quotes or wise sayings of other authors? Do you put your own personal ideas/quotes in your commonplace books? Again, thank you for your insights. God bless! Edit: 📚

@Noahsendir Ай бұрын

Thanks for everything! ♥️📚

@ParkerNotes 26 күн бұрын

🙌🤝🫡 my pleasure

@glssecondchannel5147 Ай бұрын

This video came just in time for me!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌

@Mybox94 Ай бұрын

Thank you. Love your contents from Nigeria ❤

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌

@MaverickChristian 18 күн бұрын

1:25 - Ha! I have that book too! It's great. 😁

@ro_ber_to Ай бұрын

📚 Thanks for your videos!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🫡 so glad you enjoy them!

@kckamote Ай бұрын

I love that you have a lot of notebooks for everything.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌🙌

@chaitanya5652 Ай бұрын

📚 I just want to say thank you. Reading log gave me the final push , i needed to read somewhat on a daily basis. I started my own dictionary while watching British TV shows in mid Jan.It's funny watching you mention it because I thought I have watched all of your videos on this channel , must have missed that one.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I love that! I'm very glad to have played a role in your intellectual life! Yeah my whole audience missed that dictionary one and my video on a journal of love. KZfaq hasn't been pushing my stuff in 2024 for some reason

@knw-seeker6836 Ай бұрын

On a side note subscribed I love this kind of content

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌🙌

@asimplenameichose151 Ай бұрын

📚 Thanks for sharing your methodology :)

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🫡🫡🫡 very glad to do so!

@andyscoles46 Ай бұрын

📚 I've struggled with writing in books for so long...I was always taught not to, and I've always been concerned that underlining or making notes would be more distracting than helpful. But maybe I can adopt some of those symbols you mentioned -- subtle marginalia -- and keep my actual notes somewhere else. Also, ironically, the need to take notes and read slowly often keeps me from reading at all because it feels like a chore to sit down with a book. And yet it's still so easy for me to forget what I read if I just read without taking notes (at least in nonfiction books).

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I feel this. You might consider using pencils for your light marginalia. And a lot of times I'll just dog ear the pages while I'm reading fiction and come back later to mark it up or pull quotes so I'm more free to read and so it feels less chore like

@blondesthinktoo Ай бұрын

📚 Thanks for another really helpful video :)

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌 so glad you liked it!

@VerenaFuchs 6 күн бұрын

Hope to find one of your books to be rewarded friendship!! Absolutely love this, and will implement this and variations as well. 😊

@ParkerNotes 4 күн бұрын

🫡🙌

@ethanmetzner5318 Ай бұрын

New subscriber and fellow Christian here. I'm finishing up a BA in Biblical Studies and looking forward to my MDiv. Great tips. I wish I had this video back when I started my undergrad. 📚

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🤝🤝 same here! I didn't start this stuff until my senior year of undergrad 🙃

@mirenda2754 Ай бұрын

📚😁 A bunch of cool ideas, thanks, Parker! A couple of months ago I started a couple of new notebooks (e.g. general reading log and seperate reading logs for short stories and essays). I've kind of fell behind with them, it has kind of become a chore for me but today I caught up and wrote down what I have been reading lately, and it's a cool, clarifing experience. But I think it's more natural for me to come back to notebooks if I feel like it, otherwise it becomes like a homework for me and I always hated homeworks 😅 Anyway, thank you again for the inspiration, I really like finding out new ways of thinking and filling up notebooks! Best wishes to you and your family!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I actually do this with most of my notebooks 🙌

@InkieBeard Ай бұрын

The book reviews and reading log notebooks are brilliant ideas 📚

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🫡

@paulhaube 25 күн бұрын

I use loose leaves with a 3 hole binders and page separators.

@MrTaserface Ай бұрын

i am not going to take every single tip but it did help me come up with some cool new ideas. thanks!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Let's go! That's what I was hoping 🫡🫡🫡

@guillermoarvizu1723 Ай бұрын

📚awesome content Amigo!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌

@mklakshana Ай бұрын

📚Thank you for introducing me to the world of deep thinking! I have been implementing many of your tips and strategies and they have completely revolutionised the way I approach reading. Your book suggestions and podcasts are both treasures to me, and I sincerely appreciate all your efforts in sharing your wisdom. Keep inspiring!🍀

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌🙌🙌 thank you so much! I'm so glad you're benefiting from my stuff 🫡

@scatoutdebutter Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌🙌 thank you!

@amandas1977 Ай бұрын

📚 Couple of questions: First, what is the difference between how you use a common place book (especially a “specific” common place book, and how you use a compendium? Second, how often do you find yourself referencing information in your notebooks? Great video, thanks for sharing!!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Great question! A true compendium, in my view, it's just information and it's meant to be comprehensive in scope and systematically presented. A commonplace book is a collection of quotations. So if you were to read Dune for instance and wanted to make a compendium of it, you'd have a character list, maybe some visuals on the relationships between them like a family tree, a lost of the major political powers, a list of the people groups, etc. A commonplace book for Dune will be a book where you collect your favorite quotes from Dune. If you're adding your own thoughts and analysis to the quotations then I'd call it a manuscript commonplace book. If you add quotations to your compendium then it'd be a blended compendium/commonplace book. Or atleast that's how I see it right now 😅

@mouradali8270 Ай бұрын

This video is nice , summarizes and brings together alot of your other videos . btw , do you have your own discord.. I think the kind of people you attract to your channel would make a great discord community.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Yeah check the description for the link. I need to have it reformatted for this audience more than my podcast audience but it's there still

@justinsankar1164 Ай бұрын

📚📚📚. Gonna be a memorization champ after this video

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Haha let's go!

@LedgerAndLace Ай бұрын

Loved all these tips! I like my Kindle for fiction, but if I can't get non-fiction in hardcopy, then I definitely keep more notes in a real notebook. I also write in regular books, but in special editions, rare or antique copies, I keep notes in a notebook. 📚

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I used to read fiction in bed on my kindle paper white and I could read much faster but forgot so much more

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Thanks for this comment btw🙌

@iWizard Ай бұрын

Edifying video. I had no idea this channel existed. Man, do you hustle, haha. Cheers!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Haha good to see you here bro! This is the bread and butter channel now

@chasehelton5462 Ай бұрын

📚 another fire video

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌🤝🤝

@SucculentSherry Ай бұрын

📚 Great video.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌 thanks!

@eransom_ Ай бұрын

📚dude I love your content you are literally who I’d love to be when I grow up 😂. I think the future needs to have more and more philosophers lol

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Haha that's awesome, thank you! I feel the same way, philosophers who live up to their role in society instead if hiding away in obscurity. I'd love to be a philosopher who produces stuff that not only for other philosophers lol

@Hi_Im_Dominik Ай бұрын

📚 Thanks to you i started using notebooks. Have midori a6 for everyday tasks, thoughts emotions plans literly everythink. Small moleskine a6 for quotes i would like to recall to become friends with boredom. Will start summary notebook for books i red, some have so much little markers they look like a pride flag. Also want to become master at sales be rly good at it so thinking at doing my own comepdium for sales when i want to include best tips, tactics, articles, lessons, life situations or shit ppl talk ho know way more than me. Teaching my self does feel great !

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

This is so cool!! I'm blown away that people take my advice on notebooks. It's really encouraging to hear you've been helped by my stuff! Thank you

@Hi_Im_Dominik Ай бұрын

No. Thank you@@ParkerNotes

Ай бұрын

📚 Great video as always. Question: in your talks about note-taking, I couldn't find anything about zettelkasten. Is it something you've tried and didn't find it useful, or you just prefer commonplace books?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Thanks! So I bought all the key books on Zettelkasten and skimmed but I need to find time for a true deep dive. I could be wrong but from a cursory look, I think topic-specific commonplace books and compendiums are way more beneficial for reviewing, memorizing, and even generating new ideas. I'm totally open to being wrong because I know so many people have used them and love them but I wonder if they've tried using the CPBs and compendiums the way I do before

Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes Thank you very much. I'll have to dive deeper into CPBs and compendiums.

@Crague12 Ай бұрын

Legend!!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

😅🤝🤝

@kelviannaepperson3677 Ай бұрын

I want to analytically read because I tend to talk to myself when I'm reading for fun. It be nice to remember how i felt reading a book. And remember to read more often. Whenever i talk about books or movies, I end up giving a summary.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌

@noeditbookreviews Ай бұрын

Sometimes I can't even remember WHAT book I recently read.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Been there

@Whofan31 Ай бұрын

📚Love your obsession with notebooks. It is seriously contagious!🤣 I like the idea of a book of précises of papers summarizing the main arguments - I am going to try this, along with a subject specific commonplace book. I am trying to use the reading log in my bullet journal - with limited success so far, but I am going to persevere! Maybe the book of reviews will encourage me with my reading goals? Great video - great for idea generation!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Fantastic!! Sorry about passing the notebook contagion haha your wallet probably hates me

@Whofan31 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes I think the bigger issue might be cramp from taking so many notes! 🤣Fun problems to have!

@knw-seeker6836 Ай бұрын

Honestly I was looking forward for this one Would you recommend the same process for exams?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Exams might be different. You don't need to remember everything your professor said but just what will be on the exam. Of course you may want to remember everything they said for the sake of your education and not just the exam

@knw-seeker6836 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes Makes sense, I’m studying psychology and have to know main ideas as well as the supporting arguments

@MariyaHaqueSoily Ай бұрын

Finally you are back bro...🥺

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Haha let's go!

@evelynarizmendi9226 Ай бұрын

📚Very helpful.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌

@jomamma4729 Ай бұрын

I would personally really appreciate a video about the best reasons to build a daily reading habit! I have often hesitated in my own life to begin developing a good habit because I feel that I can't articulate exactly why I should do it, or because I feel unable to answer the ultimate question of morality (i.e., what ought I to do/who ought I to be), and thus I am unable to justify a motivation in my own mind and heart. It's like when you can't mentally retrieve a certain fact perfectly, or cannot articulate an idea perfectly, but instead in my action-ing life. I hesitate to do something because I don't feel that my heart is set right in regards to that activity. But what's ironic is that reading would most likely be the best way to resolve that issue!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@jomamma4729 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes Thank you. I watched (and liked) that one. Good video-I just meant a video more towards the motivation/philosophy of morality of reading habits. Like: 1. Why do you read the different things you read? (You want to be a sage, you want to be an expert in some ways, but... 2. Why, more specifically, and how do you relate your abstract, idealistic motivation/s for reading to the actual actions of reading?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

@@jomamma4729 oh awesome! Okay I'll see what I can do 🫡🫡

@gcarlin92 Ай бұрын

I really like the idea of writing in books but i've been using mainly kindle for alot of recent books. How easy do people find making digital notes vs in an actual book?

@gutsguiltgreed639 Ай бұрын

I work in a bookstore and everyone else keeps their books as immaculate as possible while I'm sat there scribbling in the margins 😅

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@AmanCreatesArt Ай бұрын

📚 Lots of great ideas. Thanks! I do recommend folks join at least one book club. It’s one of the best ways to engage with a book.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Do you prefer in-person local ones or are there good online ones?

@Lokster71 Ай бұрын

Lord of Light is such a good book. I think what I'd like to do is better synthesise my notes. I'm about to start my Ridiculous Reading Project, which is a kind of literary canon project starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh based on a long, long list I've pulled together from various sources. It started as a Western Canon exercise but I've tried to broaden it to include other parts of the Globe and I think some of your tips will really help me with that learning/reading process. I do love a notebook too. 📚

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

What an epic project! I have a video on self learning that may help you with the planning portion of this if you haven't seen it, it could be beneficial

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@norvynhill Ай бұрын

Three master’s degrees!? Dang man! I feel like a peasant. I tried to sit through college 3 times and just hated it each time. 📚

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I hated it until I started studying philosophy then I got sucked in and couldn't stop. But most of my friends can't stand school lol

@norvynhill Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes Yeah, my wife is adamant I give it another go. I am really into Philosophy, Theology, and Literature but scared about the job prospects. Keep doing what you are doing! Love all the content!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

@@norvynhill there are none lol but we gotta find alternatives, like this 😅

@teddywilliams4112 Ай бұрын

📚 I am a little late on this one but I’m catching back up on my content! As for which tool do I think is the best, it’s gotta be the newly minted Book of Book Reviews (and Précis) hahaha

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Haha let's go!!

@sakshamdhanda3759 Ай бұрын

Hi I want to read your notes. Where can I download the notebooks?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Lol

@scatoutdebutter Ай бұрын

📚 Really good stuff... love the part about talking/reviewing to your better half! 😄 Theoretically your ideas, etc. are really great... I really like them all and look forward to implementing and/or fine tuning my own simple methods... However..... .... it seems *all* your time would be spent reviewing all your notebooks :) I mean you must have at least 100's by now. ... how do you navigate that? 📚 ... as for take-aways... your list of symbols for marking I believe is the most helpful -- immediately implementable. Do you have a copy of Webster's 1828 Dictionary facsimile for getting definitions for archaic words and/or meanings?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I don't have a copy of that, I'll look into it! Thanks! I have a ton, yeah haha. But I have different seasons that prompt me to use different notebooks. I have about 4 or so daily use ones and the rest get cycled through based on need and opportunity

@OneSevenOne171 Ай бұрын

📚 great video. a quick question which you may have answered before - what are your thoughts for/against digital note taking? also how do you approach reading textbooks?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I mark up text books. I often read through them like any other book but sometimes I'll skip around to the most pertinent sections. I always try to read the whole book once I've started but that's a personal thing because the old me never finished any books so I make myself finish all of them now

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I don't benefit from digital notes. I forget about them. And with analog I can remember which side of the page I wrote on but digital takes that away and I forget. I use my Kindle Scribe for marking up philosophy papers though

@OneSevenOne171 Ай бұрын

thank you! I have been an Evernote user for over 10 years (and tried other apps) but I am leaning towards trying analog methods. I definitely prefer to read a physical book! I have heard marginalia referred to as “tattooing” the book, and I do that too!

@TheGeeked1 Ай бұрын

📚 I should steal your book review journal idea. It could make my book club thoughts more organized. As far as your marginalia and personal dictionary, I've started using index cards similar to what Scott Scheper talks about with his antinet zettlekasten for the marginalia: write the page number and either the quote or a short summery on the back of an index card and it works both as a notetaking system and bookmark, and for the dictionary in addition to the notebook with new words listed in no real order, index cards in their own box in alphabetical order makes things a little more organized when at home.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

This is great! I could see a dictionary Zettelkasten being really beneficial. I'm still a commonplace book over Zettelkasten for quotes

@TheGeeked1 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes So am I, which is why after taking the notes on my index card, I'll go and transfer them to their respective notebooks. I just really don't like the idea of writing in my books and I know I should, but I can't bring myself to do it... it probably doesn't help that I would run the risk of bleeding given the pens I use, but keeping the notes on a notecard gives me the best of both worlds, I think

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

@@TheGeeked1 ohhh nice!!! Okay your system is awesome. I may start this for books I don't wanna write in

@TheGeeked1 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes I look forward to seeing the new note taking video featuring that method, lol

@seth-shaw-asu Ай бұрын

I recently watched your video on reading more and now carry a small pocket-sized notebook with me, primarily for a reading log and book notes. I tend to borrow from the public library, so no marginalia for me! 📚 Side-note: The notebook also started serving as a common-place book when I was on a business trip a few weeks ago and saw a quote I liked on a commemorative plaque. Now I have the quote in my pocket and have reflected on it from time to time since then whereas before I'm sure it would have been long forgotten by now. Thanks for your videos!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

This is so awesome! Great work. That notebook sounds like it's becoming more and more precious to you by the day. I love it

@seth-shaw-asu Ай бұрын

I'm reminded of a friend who also never wrote in his books, not because they came from a library, but because he had a policy of always giving away the books he read to someone he thought would enjoy it.

@ralibalyase2531 Ай бұрын

Hey @ParkNotes, I've got a question: how do you make a living out of studying? Because I dream to stay a live long learner but don't know how to make a living out of that. Thanks for your help

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

You're looking at it 😅

@ralibalyase2531 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes so you mean by doing youtube?

@user-oi3lz4ht6l Ай бұрын

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@varsqeni Ай бұрын

It's interesting how it will affect on the taking notes in different languages. Will it be messed up?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Germans and Dutch folks may need more notebooks? Longer words?

@varsqeni Ай бұрын

Actually they need 😂. What do you think which way is better? For example, read in english and take notes in your native language or read in english and take notes in english?

@matthewanglin1 Ай бұрын

Damn, I wish I had the time to reread a book. I don't even have the free time to read things I love multiple times. There's just too much in the world. 📚

@HugoIsHorrible Ай бұрын

Hell yeah! Wake up babe, new ParkNotes video just dropped

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@ber093 Ай бұрын

I've been watching some of your videos, but I have this question: How can you have so many pocket notebooks on yourself throughout the day? Do you fit them all in your pocket? Do you carry a bag with you? I want to buy different pocket notebooks to write about different topics in each of them, but I'm not sure how to carry them all..

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I usually carry 2 or 3 tops. I cycle them out. Always a catch-all though

@ber093 Ай бұрын

@ParkerNotes i see, so one catch-all pocket notebook would be preferable over many

@demonhealeryo Ай бұрын

📚 woooo!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@iantorenvlied7760 Ай бұрын

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@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@danielfernandoaranzazusanc7014 Ай бұрын

I'm doing a book log. I think that's my first time and, what I can say? On a month or two I will to write and let's see how that goes. (Pd: I'm Colombian, and I hope you have a beautiful day) :D

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

🙌🙌 awesome, hope you like it

@Wemyss21 Ай бұрын

📚Brilliant advice as always... but when is the video on how to fit a pilot in your saddleback pen loop dropping?😂

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Hahaha boy is that hard to work in

@JoeRobson Ай бұрын

Hi! Did you notice there's a typo in the video title? "Your" instead of "You". Nobody else seems to have pointed it out!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Oh, thanks!

@eliyahu01 Ай бұрын

📚 Have you considered using Niklas Luhman's zettelkasten method? It is said that he never had to reread a book. Maybe that is also a good way to learn things.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

What what I've seen, I'm not a fan of zettelkasten but I still need to take a deep dive on it. Got the books just need the time

@eliyahu01 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes Which book do you refer to? How to take smart notes by Sonke Ahrens?

@MrTylerhenry8 Ай бұрын

When you say manuscript, what do you mean by that? Thinking in longform?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Like when you manuscript a paper. You have something you want to talk about. Often times your make an outline and then fill in that outline with quotes and your thoughts in a manuscript version of the paper. So all I mean is adding quotes and your commentary on them, your own thoughts, analysis, exegesis, etc.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I got the "manuscript" commonplace book concept from the academic literature on CPBs and thought it was a good enough descriptor of this style

@davexhayter Ай бұрын

📚 I actually like marking up "collectible" books. If I sought it out and found it, it's got to become truly mine right?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I'm not there yet haha

@HafidzIlyasa Ай бұрын

Do you have some advice to be more creative?

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Read a lot and broadly, like lot of different genres. Spend time enjoying art of different kinds, and go for walks without looking at your phone and without listening to music. Putting in good and fascinating ideas and then giving yourself alone time for them to churn around and mix

@HafidzIlyasa Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes good advice, thanks man!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

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@HafidzIlyasa Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes Hi park! What's your opinion about meditation, i mean is it will help me? Because what I am feel, reading a book to much make me overload sometimes.

@TonyThomas10000 Ай бұрын

Looks like you could use a book scanner to digitize all of those journals and books!

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

Maybe, I'm slowly regressing away from tech the more I study AI though 😅

@TonyThomas10000 Ай бұрын

@@ParkerNotes The cool thing with digitalization is that it could be easily indexed and accessed anywhere. I love my digitized libraries in Accordance and Logos.

@ParkerNotes Ай бұрын

I have both too, maybe I'll look into this, thanks!