Some time ago I asked about the ways in which you guys would highlight and annotate your books and got some really great methods and reasoning.
When I take highlights and notes, sometimes it's to just mark things that stands out so when I go back through the book I can quickly spot those words and ideas.
Another form of highlight I do is for fleshing out ideas some more and making connections to other pieces of work, such as pointing to an idea in another book. Adler refers to this as a type of reading called "syntopical".
Since I'm a computer science person, I like to have my work digitally, one for search indexability but now with the advancement of AI, these tools are able to look at what I'm highlighting and make these connections for me.
I started off using ChatGPT to take a photo of the page and highlighted text, then write down my ideas there. In its memory it would have a list of books from my shelves, so it can guide me on what other books I can go pick up, or suggest new reading recommendations.
It worked well up to a point but I needed to organize these notes and photos, so I wrote a plug-in that sent this to my own database.
This workflow is serving me well so far to sort of digitize my physical notes and highlights.
Now I want to know what you guys are doing to with your highlights? I hear some of you have a reading journal, is there any structure or method to this that you'd like to share? If you're digitizing, how are you storing and retrieving?
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