I have a gap between “listening to a book” and “making a book report”. So much so that I end up with low-quality notes, or none at all. I’ve heard that Readwise can help me out with books on Kindle, but there’s not much to be done when listening to a book on Audible whilst walking the dog.
When I am reading a book or taking an on-line class then taking notes during or immediately afterwards is easy. But this activity represents a relatively small percentage of my time spent thinking.
I have fallen out of the habit of having a morning habit. These days I get up and attend to immediate demands until I am almost ready to go to sleep. This leads to pretty chaotic days.
Taking all that into account, I am making the following changes:
- After dropping my child off at school I will create a day plan
- I will concentrate more on Fleeting Notes
- Due to (2), at 9p I will spend time to ingest fleeting notes from wherever they are. I will tag them with #new
- Since I’ve let this one slip, at 9p on Sunday I will review new notes (untag them) and start any literature notes that this exercise produces.
None of this addresses the issue that lead this post off – the absence of an easy way to make notes whilst listening to a book whilst walking the dog. I suppose I’ll just have to try and hold on to any of those ideas until I get home.
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