I'm using highlighting for marking up my ESV bible, but I would like to get off on the right foot before going too far... so I'm wondering if there are best practices or suggestions people have for using highlights, palettes, and note linking.
I have the standard observation highlights such as Who, What, Where, Connectives, Repeated ideas, etc. that I would use to mark up books, and I'm also planning on having highlights for pre-defined biblical themes I would like to follow throughout, such as "seeking God".
Using this approach, once I have the highlights sorted out for the various observations, would the best approach be to create a palette for each book that contain the same highlights? i.e. Romans Highlights, Galatians Highlights, etc set to save in note books matching the name of the highlight palette. The advantage I see to this is it organizes all the highlights into smaller groups (per book). The disadvantage being that I have to create many copies of the same highlight (i.e., a Who observation for each book/palette), and if I want to modify a highlight then I need to modify each instance of that highlight in all palettes. The example I've seen in the 10 day training was to create a palette for a single chapter, Matthew 4, but boy would that add up to a lot of palette's.
For the common biblical themes I would like to trace with different kinds of highlights, would it be best to create a palette for the all themes and use the same palette for all themes in all books, or would it be best to create a palette per theme linked to a single note file for each theme?
The options are varied and once I get invested into a particular approach I can see it could be confusing and a lot of work to make changes. I don't really want an "I wish I had done it another way" type of scenario.
Perhaps there is already a resource or post dedicated to this (searching for the words 'highlighting' and 'notes' brings up a lot of unrelated posts), and if so please forgive the long-winded question and direct me to it...but if not, what would you consider to be a best practice for this? What methods do you use?
Thanks