I couldn’t search for them, I couldn’t copy/paste quotes, and I couldn’t rearrange my notes to make more sense. And finally, without that transcription step, the notes weren’t of much value to me. This generated a big backlog of book notes that I never caught up to.
Second, I wouldn’t revisit those notes until I filled my written notebook, scanned it, and went through it again. There were problems with this process though.įirst, it ruined my reading flow, and as a result I didn’t take many notes. Later, I’d scan my notes and upload them to Evernote. I’d keep a notebook next to me, and jot down thoughts as they came to me, or passages that I found particularly important. So I started taking notes while I read too. I also noticed that many of the prolific readers I followed and admired - productivity expert Tim Ferriss, writer Ryan Holiday, blogger Nat Eliason, Shane Parrish - had some sort of note-taking process when they read. I’d read a book one week, and a month later have forgotten most of the content. The problem was that I noticed I wasn't retaining as much as I’d like. I didn’t learn much about these fields during my Mechanical Engineering degree, so I had to learn somewhere. I still credit The 4-Hour Workweek as a major influence on my decision to enter the world of startups.Īs I got more into the world of business, tech, and entrepreneurship, I began reading more. Prior, I enjoyed lots of fiction during, I read lots of textbooks and not much else. I only really started heavily reading non-fiction books after college.
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