Books

Depends on the book and if note taking is helpful or necessary for understanding or digesting the book well.

I'd rather read a few extra books in a year, than make notes on all of them while I'm reading. My "to read" list is already longer than I can finish in this life-time. But, if it makes reading more enjoyable for you, by all means continue and don't worry if anyone else takes notes, too.

I read a lot of gigantic fantasy books. I’ve never done this, but I have definitely considered it. It’s hard to keep track of all the characters and events that happen early in 600+ page books. Not sure if I’d do chapters, but considered maybe journaling or writing down things that happened each day of reading or something like that.

No. I read with enjoyment in mind. It's not my goal to remember minute details about these books in five years, or even five months.

Not notes, but I bookmark any passage I like. Later I photocopy and cut out the excerpt to paste in a notebook. I scrapbook all my favourite passages.

I do, it helps me concentrate when reading. I do write down all details, just a few points that I find interesting or actionable.

I usually don't but I tried annotating and that was kind of fun! I now just keep a notebook with whatever I'm reading and write down anything that I enjoy, relate to or find curious.

Sometimes I'll go into detail about what I've felt/feel about the passage I copied too!

No, but I write a Goodreads review all the time now so I can look back at my opinion.

I started doing this recently :)

I started out with annotating - but sometimes I don't know what to annotate - and I found it helped me remember more of the book.

Then I got a journal from a book subscription box, and I figured why not use it 🤷🏻‍♀️ So I started writing down questions I had, things that didn't make sense, things of note, etc. And I felt it helped connect me even more to the story 😅

An unfortunate side effect is that I feel like I can't read without an arsenal of tools now 😅😅😅

I use those little sticky page marker tabs and then go back later (usually while I'm watching TV) and highlight the sections I marked. I do this every 10 markers or so and when I'm done with the book go back and reread the passages I highlighted. I only do this with nonfiction though

I highlight sentences and passages

Nope. I read for entertainment these days.

But, if I was at work and/or reading a technical document or reference book, I'd be marking up like crazy.

I use Kindle, and it has a great feature of highlighting text you want. Every time I see a worthy passage I highlight it. Usually it comes to 1-5 passages per book.

I do it a lot with nonfiction books and if I really want to remember the lessons, tips, key information. Usually mindmaps. Especially psychology/psychiatry, and geopolitics/history books (since I'm nowhere near those disciplines in what I do or studied). I also journal regularly so I'll put in my thoughts on the books I read in there.

I write a book summary after I read a book, because I find I struggle to remember exactly what happens in some books.

No, never. But if you enjoy doing that while you read, then that’s great! I love the idea in theory, but I just personally would never do that, unless maybe it was an assignment for school.