How to store information from books and articles
Books / / December 19, 2019
People read for two reasons: it is interesting and useful. What is more important? Should I read for pleasure or straining memory, trying to remember all the information? I share your opinion, and the opinion of several experts surveyed.
Perhaps she is reading - this is the most unusual thing in the world. We look at the sheets of paper with the words and use imagination to make them a reality, even if only in his head. For me, reading - it's more fun than finding new and useful information. If I were asked to share their percentage (every day asking for the street), I would have given interestingness 70%, while utility - the remaining 30%.
But the book - it is the best source of one of the main resources of our life - experience. While reading the book, we can get the experience of others and learn from their own mistakes, not making them yourself. We seem to plunge into the simulator, living someone else's life, making mistakes, and applying the lessons learned in their lives.
Therefore books can be both fun and rewarding pastime. But even when I read non-fiction books, I still have problems with remembering information from them. I decided to investigate the matter and found a few ways to fix it.
Write out quotes
This is inconvenient when reading paper books, but as soon as you put this process on the conveyor will be surprised how much useful information you can remember because of this. If you are reading e-books, for example, through Bookmate, then it makes it so much easier, as in the application, you can create a quote, simply highlighting the text segment and click "Quote".
When I gave a promise read 52 books in 52 weeksI copied the quote in Evernote, creating books for each separate note. Such a method also has the right to life. It is much more lengthy and complicated, but your quotes will always be safe.
browse quotes
Once you read the book, open the notebook and check all prescription quote. They refresh the memory, and you will remember, even that which is not subscribed to. It should open the notebook with quotes every few weeks or situation. For example, if you are faced with the fact that you can not organize your time, go read book on time management and review the main points.
Tie the most important moments of real life
I will try to explain what I mean. A long time ago I read a book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceยป. I did not like. But the book had some very interesting thoughts that I wanted to remember. For instance:
You know how to write a perfect picture? It's easy. Make yourself perfect, then just write it naturally.
or
The truth knocks on the door, and you say: "Go away, I'm looking for the truth." And she leaves.
I wanted them to be deposited in the memory forever. So I brought them to the blank sheet of paper for a long time and looked at them, inspired and wrote a quick note. So they are all deposited in my memory, because I tied them with real life, and told, even to myself, that I think about it.
No need to write an essay on the theme of favorite quotes. You can remember them in other ways. For example, to print and attach on the fridge or make a t-shirt with print. But better not.
opinions
I interviewed several people whose opinion was interesting to me. Here's what they said.
Fiction read less and less. Rather, every year I read 10-12 books. But the total number of read is constantly growing. In 2014, I read more than 100 books.
I try not to remember the information. If the book is nonfiction, my reading turns into a search for the required information to me. Required - so popular for solving various tasks. To do this, before to take up a book, I write the questions that I would like to find the answers.
The information that is stored for future use, I just hurts. Interferes with thinking and decision-making at the moment. If there is continuous access to the Internet, I do not see the point. The required information must be used. In the books they have read sure to leave notes and bookmark. If necessary, I can quickly find the quote or piece of text.
Information that has attracted the attention, trying to reconcile with my existing tasks, issues, and ideas. I collect them in the list. It has long ceased to be stored and the more to write something from the books. If you read e-books, use convenient features to preserve quotations in Bookmate Kindle and services.
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Armen Petrosyan
I usually read a book with a purpose. For example, before the publication of "Doubt", I read books on the subject of health, sport and nutrition. After this began to read books on financial management and control, as it became clear that the business is growing and knowledge is not enough - he already will not extend anything. Then I read the book sales, because there needed advice - raised the level of sales themselves. Now I read the book I needed for the second book. Ie, each book - it is a step towards the goal. No views of someone I do not consider. Do not read just because someone praises a book or advice. That is, if we talk about non-fiction. If we talk about the fiction, then all is chaotic: Remark about the war, Khaled Hosseini about the Islamic world, Akunin about the history of Russia, the Subtelny about the history of Ukraine. Sometimes I reread the classics, which are not realized in the school, "Lolita," "Gobseck" and all that sort of thing.
If we talk about the collection of information, I do not write these notebooks and I pack everything in Evernote. I believe my head and I'm sure will remember only what I need. The rest - the debris and collect it for the sake of the process will leave to others. Collection takes place only in the preparation of his book, it is a complex process of selection of the most desired of books, articles, conversations, video and audio. I do it to Evernote or system tags in OS X. Ever talk to LH if conditional "Doubt-2" will be the same best-selling, as well as the first book. Cool as it sounds, 'data collection system from the author of two best-selling... ":)
glory Baranskii
I think we should not have to remember and try to absorb, disassemble, analyze.
My advice is simple:
1. Observe yourself, for your feelings during reading time. What is happening to you, why this or that emotion so overwhelmed you.
2. Do not hurry. It is better to read one page a day, with the savor and do not miss a single moment. Do not put the goal to read this or that book. In reading, as in general, and in life, important process and contentAnd not an end, and the number of books read and pages.
3. Set aside the book, if you feel that it is "not yours". Again, do not set a goal to read the book until the end - most of their time.
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Alexey Korovin
Fiction I read for pleasure. It's just a pleasure, when you realize that you have a free evening, which you can devote to a good book. Now ending fifth year and is actively writing a diploma, in this connection have to read a lot of textbooks (textbooks, monographs, scientific articles, and sometimes even the thesis). There is already, of course, the pleasure is not so much, but mainly search and isolation of the desired and actual information.
I try to read on a regular basis, according to two books a month, sometimes there are three (educational literature here is not included).
Methods for storing information of the books I have a fairly conservative:
1. Read with a pencil in hand and celebrating moments which want or need to go back. Since I rarely reread what had once read (why go back when in the world yet many unread books), my pencil marks to help me pay attention to the most important.
2. For me the best way to remember the information - is to retell it. Stories I read books constantly retell close friends have become accustomed to my "fad": on simple question: "How are you?" I can give a 30-minute monologue dedicated to just read book.
3. Read aloud. Especially if you need to memorize a poem or a definition, it helps a lot.
4. Write reviews on books read. This habit I've developed relatively recently, since I became the author on Layfhakere. When you are trying to fit a 300+ page book in 7000 characters, you learn to make pomace and, of course, memorize all the most important.
5. The latter method, which is not always, unfortunately, manage to apply - is to read what you're wondering what grabs you. Then read the information will be postponed by itself in my head.
Karina Shlapakova