How To Keep A Reading Journal - Syntopical Reading 101 

Reading through the comments makes me realize how much older I am than many here. 👵🏻 😂 As a long time amateur violist, piano learner, and out of academia for decades, making connections with what you are reading/learning is crucial. It can be physical (making hand written notes, copying phrases, physical practice), auditory (listening with intent, reading/singing back), visual (making schematics, diagrams, drawings), mnemonic, and many other methods. The key is to actively engage with what you are reading/learning and making it your own.

3:00 rule 1. A clean book is always a bad news 5:30 i dex system 7:40 organizing the compartmemts of our understanding

This is an incredibly insightful process. I've struggled with how to process all of the information I'm ingesting through books in a coherent way, so that the information is actually accessible in my brain. Outstanding suggestions here.

Dude, you are such an intelligent old soul. I am so impressed with your knowledge and professional style. Thank you for creating these videos and please know the knowledge shared lives on . . .

Perfect! I’m always worried that I’d forget what I read especially when I really like what I’m reading. Amazing tips I’ll definitely try!

Do you know, I have been writing for years and years. Published stories and books and now doing scripts. I am much older than you - a lot older. Your video's are the only resource I find make sense and are nicely communicated.

Thanks so much for this video man. I had so many lightbulb moments. Love your channel and wisdom!

I'd highly recommend something like Obsidian for this. It uses interlinking for notes. You can also use a folder system in addition. Super useful tool for me.

Great video! I will definitely apply these tips and it's a great encouragement to start writing!

You are literally helping me innovate my life bro! Much appreciated ⚡️

Thanks alot , really appreciate your all insights.

This is what I do with the Obsidian platform. I used Notion but I wanted my files to stay on my computer instead of the cloud, so I switched. It allows for linking notes to each other & has a very good view of all the connections you’ve made between topics.

Just subscribed! Love your videos R.C., keep it up!

You describing how to pick up more to read is very similar to Justin Sungs advice on learning def going to implement some of this keep up the great work.

Thank you for the video, the tips are very useful ! For the last, I recommend using maybe Bear or Apple Notes, you can add tags so it automatically sort your notes into categories :)

Thank you for the video!

I really loved your tone. I Just want to copy it 😊.

really underrated video

The technique you talked about in the later part echos with the latest trend of note-taking, and softwares like Logseq, tildlywiki, Roam..ect.

Not to sound like an ad but Notion is perfect for this type of archiving. Definitely worth checking it out.

Excellent advice

So helpful. Sometimes I feel like I just inhale books and don’t fully appreciate Al of a books contents.

Have you ever stumbled upon the Obsidian note-taking app? It's free bi-linking, organizable into themselves and folders markdown files with a beautiful graph view. Organizing it the way you show it here would be a breeze. I use it for taking not full-fledged notes but thoughts, ideas and concepts of "atomic" size I can connect by hierarchies and links.

I do something quite similar, so it was nice to have my process confirmed, however, there is something that you do, that I still have to pick up, and think is brilliant, which is to further journal. While I write a short paragraph of thoughts of the insights that I have after diving into something I read, I do not journal as extensive as you do about it, which I think in turn would open up a lot more insights into connections that I can make - or future studies I want to make - through that "braindump". So I will try to extend my writing about what I am reading a bit, and see if that adds to this practice. Thank you for your insightful videos, they are a pleasure to watch.

I love your videos so much! And I would be great if you made a video on how to practice effectively cuz you're a piano teacher.

Meet your channel with video called "How to become modern polymath" And absoluetly love your channel great simple,educatiional content thank you.

cut to the chase man, this is the 4th video in a row that I find myself unable to finish.

What you describe in the intro has always been clear to me. What I'm wondering is: why doesn't school teach things this way? At least, that's my experience. Languages are taught through repetition of words and rules. In physics there always was the emphasis on just accepting the laws and only learning when you need to apply which one. I was unable to learn these things until I saw the connections between things and the basis for those laws, which unfortunately was after I left school. Luckily it has made learning languages since then a lot easier

"to backup your brain" sounds so cool

Thanks for this video! I have been trying something similar to this system with LogSeq where I identify the theme (e.g. OnLove) where this is a tag that automatically creates a page for future references to fall under. It’s nice as the note taking basis of this app is based on breaking points but it somehow feels it lacks the freedom of a free note like using notepad on mac for instance.

Hello. I’ve seen many using Notion for class notes and many others. I am very curious how you organize your notion using Synoptical Reading. I hope you can walk us through your personal use of Notion 🙏 Thank you

Thanks I keep a reading journal. Your idea will help me get even more from my reading, understanding, and learning.

5:45 write 300 words every morning on what you just read (thoughts on...)

our memory is not faulty. i really hate this notion that we just forget everything and a computer is better than us. like our memory just needs time. unlike a computer's memory our memory on saves that which stays. aka the more something is used by us the more it will stay. well because those things that stays the longest means it is important. so a computer's memory has no priority. i know many human beings with amazing memory it just needs time and training.

Have you considered leaving the files in their original folders and making links to them in topical folders. That way if you had a writing that covered two related topics like "on love", "on commitment", & their relationship to each other, you could have that writing accessible from the "on love" folder or the "on commitment" folder.

I wish you'd show examples of how you do this (visual learner here).

Thank you for this informative video. Does this only apply to nonfiction books or fiction as well?

I like this idea, but aren't Word documents somewhat clumsy for this? Is there any specific reason why you use it? I imagine it to be much easier to use a note taking app that uses tags, so you can sort your notes by date _and_ topic. Also, you could tag it with multiple tags. But I am definitely going to start the journaling habit after reading. Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

Yup, this guy needs Obsidian asap

Check mind mapping by tony buzan. When you display thoughts about a subject in a visually stimulating way where branches come forth from the central idea, your brain will just make the right connections, naturally. I believe u can find the solution to any intellectual or life problem by using this technique. Truly has been transformative for me

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7:57 to back up my brain. Yeah right.

Any app you guys recommend for the centopticon? Where you can handrwite to text and tag your notes with subjects and it can search it by tags and can hopefully import your kindle notes?

I like the idea of marking up my books but since I usually borrow them either from friends or the library I can't realistically do this. At least not without paying for a new book everytime I want to read something. Perhaps I will keep a composition notebook next to me and everytime I have something I would have written in the book I'll write it in there. I'm not sure

I can’t remember 💩. I would take notes while reading so I could remember a bit more from what I read. It helped. (Sadly my wife thinks now I have a memory mental disorder🤨🤦🏻‍♂️)

Mortimer Adler!

I can't even remember what I've written. I've published 3 books and I still have to reread all of them because I can't remember what happens in the story. XD

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Hey R.C., thank you for the video, I would like to recommend you a software called Obsidian, with small learning curve, you could really enhance the note parts easily linking more than one ideas instead of using folder system. Do check it out if you haven't already. Thanks again.

Who would you play from - The Secret History???? Richard ?????

very random but your i love your voice

He’s so handsome ❤ also this is super helpful

Saw an older vid of yours about the commonplace book. Did you switch back to writing on computer from writing your reading journal by hand?

Can I use this for my art and science of diabetes? Hahaha 😭😭😭

How to Read a Book

When the concept of "remembering stuffs you read" was invented and by who? 22nd June, 2022 by R.C. Waldun. People before that: