Notes using multiple resources
When you read a passage and you get some insight from multiple resources. What do you notes making people do to indicate that you have worked through those resources, so that when you reach that passage again you don't work through the same resources. Please keep in mind I am a mobile web app user and not desktop.
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Depending on the note I either keep a list of references used within the note - sometimes as a worklist that I check off as each is explored OR I add an anchor from each source
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
When I am including insight from other resources in my notes, I will usually cite the reference. If I use a ref.ly link to link to the resource, then not only can I recall in the future where I got the insight from, I also can keep my thoughts in the note quite brief. If I need a refresher, the link to the correct location in the resource is right there for me to read up on. Just be sure to anchor the note to the verse rather than individual words so that it will show regardless of translation.
I keep highlighting simple.
If I'm reading through a book I'll read through a chapter, highlights as I go, then anchor a note to the chapter or section heading and use that as my summarizing/thinking space.
do you highlight the text that you use in that resource to show what you have taken out from it.
I don't - but then I rarely highlight anything - never did in college either with paper texts.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."