A reading room
Welcome
Ada Ng. Notes on attention, memory, and how to read.
A system built to keep notes honest, not just collect them.
Writing
Essays. Seminar voice.
Reading
Books and papers, with notes.
Method
Why I stopped highlighting PDFs
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Why I stopped highlighting PDFs
Highlighting a PDF feels like work. It is filing. A year later I cannot recover the thought, only the yellow. The method The method I actually use:
Notes on How to Take Smart Notes
Ahrens is not a productivity book. It is a book about when thinking happens. Highlighting, underlining, and dumping quotes into a reference manager al
Rereading As We May Think
Bush wanted the trail — the path a mind actually took through a library — to be as durable as the documents. Most “personal knowledge” software stores
On The Craft of Research
Still reading. Booth’s move is the one I needed before quals: a topic is not a question, a question is not a claim. I am using the book as a template