The Top 3 Most Effective Ways to Take Notes While Reading

Note-taking: A Research Roundup | Cult of Pedagogy

A summary of 8 best practices in note-taking, straight from the research.

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Double processing information for notes : Garden of Learning by Juhis

As I read discussions about note-taking and learning, I often run into complaints about how much time and effort it takes to make and maintain notes and how people wish they could end ...

How to gain more from reading by taking it all in more slowly | Psyche Guides

There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading

“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”

Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } . The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of journal should I use?”, “how can I make it easy to capture snippets of things I read?”, etc.

Learning How to Learn (And 20+ Studies) – Max's Two Cents

I have been interested in cognitive science and effective learning methods for years. I’ve read multiple books and articles and put many ideas to test. In this post, I aim to synthesize my notes and provide references to scientific studies.

The Best Note-Taking Apps

We recently polled readers with suggestions for the best note-taking apps. Most of you said you still do things the old-fashioned way with pen and p

Notes Against Note-Taking Systems

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How I Choose What To Read - David Perell

David shares how he chooses what to read and how to build a reading habit. Read here.

Ordinary Notes

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Reader guide · Standard Reader

How to use Standard Reader — following, reading, listening, and making it yours. No technical knowledge needed.

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…

Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation

However, recent work on augmenting reading largely focuses on making reading more efficient, especially in knowledge-intensive contexts where people must rapidly make sense of research papers and other complex documents (Lo et al., 2024). These systems often aim to help readers skim, summarize, and synthesize large volumes of information in order to reduce cognitive effort and accelerate document- and corpus-level sensemaking at scale (Gu et al., 2025; Lo et al., 2024; Fok et al., 2023). At one extreme, the form of reading implicitly envisioned by these systems may resemble what we call “reading to discard”: extracting the essential, actionable informational core of a document as quickly and efficiently as possible, so that the rest can be swiftly tossed aside—much like we often process inbound mail. This motivates us to ask what scaffolding approaches might resist “reading to discard,” what alternative forms of reading we might scaffold, and what alternative views and values of reading might guide the conversation.

The Zettelkasten Method — LessWrong

Early this year, Conor White-Sullivan introduced me to the Zettelkasten method of note-taking. I would say that this significantly increased my resea…

Getting Started with Reader

Walkthrough guides can be really boring so we've laced ours with spicy memes to keep those dopamine receptors firing while while we subliminally teach you the basics of our reading software. We hope you don't mind a little fun.