I rarely take private notes, but I do a lot of highlighting. Currently via Readwise Reader, which requires a monthly subscription; before that by highlighting passages in Kindle ebooks etc. The way highlighting is implemented often allows you to attach a note to your highlight, which would correspond to your private notes.
One challenge with highlighting and digital note-taking is: what happens after you finish reading? Can you export your highlights? Do you have to do that manually, or does it happen automatically? Or, if you can’t export your highlights, can you at least see them all in one place?
If you consistently take highlights on one site or device, you probably want to do the same in others. But do they even all support highlighting? And even if so, how do you collect all those highlights in one central spot? Etc.
By default, if those things aren’t possible, then you might take lots of highlights or notes, and yet never look at them again after the fact. At least that’s been my own experience.
I rarely take private notes, but I do a lot of highlighting. Currently via Readwise Reader, which requires a monthly subscription; before that by highlighting passages in Kindle ebooks etc. The way highlighting is implemented often allows you to attach a note to your highlight, which would correspond to your private notes.
One challenge with highlighting and digital note-taking is: what happens after you finish reading? Can you export your highlights? Do you have to do that manually, or does it happen automatically? Or, if you can’t export your highlights, can you at least see them all in one place?
If you consistently take highlights on one site or device, you probably want to do the same in others. But do they even all support highlighting? And even if so, how do you collect all those highlights in one central spot? Etc.
By default, if those things aren’t possible, then you might take lots of highlights or notes, and yet never look at them again after the fact. At least that’s been my own experience.