Reading Monographs

When you read a monograph on topics like Attributes of God, Christian Living, Doctrine on the Holy Spirit and so on. Do you make use of clippings or notes, and why do you prefer this method.

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Michelle

Not the above monographs but on MS Heiser's works :

Clippings as a bookmark for cross devices.
Why : Cross device last read position sync doesn't work for me sometimes.
Notes
a. For my inner questions that critique it with other scriptures that doesn't convey in context for other spiritual related books.
b. When I find that the book doesn't really explain in a whole where it didn't cover some part of other scriptures which left me unconvinced.
c. But mostly so that I know why I think the way I think as in how I come to that conclusion, sometimes I anchored it with the related scriptures because after a while I forgot why I think that way or I outgrew it.
Why : Fast reference. Notes can add anchor in both monographs & Bible verses, in future when I happen to study that part again, I'm reminded & maybe I'll get new insights or understanding by then if not maybe I'll keep seeking the truth if time permits.

Lukas

@Michelle do I understand you correct in this way. Let use the book I am now busy with. It is called Discovering the God who is from R C Sproul. This book seem to focus on some of the attributes of God. So will you create a notebook for this book or just the notebook Attributes of God and then tag the note according to what attribute the chapter is discussing. Then secondly do I understand you correct by this. You select a sentence or a paragraph and anchor the selected text and then if related to a verse in Bible you anchor it to the verse. If this is the way you do, how do you do then when you have more text in the chapter, do you select that text also and anchor to the same note. And when done with the chapter you have lots info gathered from the chapter, you then sum the info up in your own words in the note.

Michelle

Hi @Lukas ,

Here's an example of my current notes, so if I open Bible with the Notes > Show notes and highlights > [Notebook Name] checked, then my Bible would show the Notes icon/highlights. If I'm feeling diligent then I would add more anchors.

Icons are mostly self-explanatory to identify whether it was questions ❓️ or insights💡.

you then sum the info up in your own words in the note.

For this part, I'm not there yet for monographs, I'm still in processing mode. This part is important for the next phase which would be correcting any lies or misunderstanding from previous teachings which will involve a lot of emotional capacity to process, then rage or grieve, then reason, then forgive & embrace that it was not all in vain, finally then healing. Highlighting, putting anchors, writing the thoughts down helped me to feel that I'm unloading packages into a container then my mind won't get stuck and I get more RAM back to process other things.

But yes I did that for group bible studies months ago. Highlight, add notes and thoughts, then exported (Send Selected Notes to : New Sermon Document) it all to a sermon where I'll used it for the group bible studies later that day, extremely helpful. 😊