I finally got done transferring all my highlights and thoughts and notes from Adler into a notes file on the computer. This was my first, really large notes file, filled with heirarchies of headlines and tags and Org Mode handled it like a champ!

It took me five times as long to transfer and organise the file, as it took me to read the book. This was very painful!
I am writing this down, so that my future self remembers!
Very, very, painful!

So I need to be intentional about books that I need to analytically read and change my reading habits.

  1. Have a one to one ratio for notes vs reading.
    This means for every ten minutes I want to read, I need to allocate at least the asame amount of time for bringing my notes in.
  2. All of the above, has to be a single session.
    So reading, followed by a bit of reflection, followed by transferring my notes and annotations out to Org Roam. So my old hour of reading is now 30m of reading, followed by 30m of thinking and jotting my thoughts down.
  3. Cross my fingers, and hope that it’ll all work out. Hope that something sane, something intelligible emerges in the end.

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