Freenoting
ByIn a 500 pages about computer programming not all information are relevants , I remember when I was at a day job as programmer I often had to absord such big books to make it painlessly I used two methodsPhotoreading and Freenoting, taking free notes is really a method to write between the lines and only keep the relevant information eventually you will be able to go fish for more based on your notes , freenoters usually have better memory retention of what they learn.
Freenoting is an excellent method to help you to absorb knowledge from technical materials, medicine, psychology, computer, laws all these fields can be used with freenoting.
There is a small of overview of the method at Helium.com
The project Renaissance webpage has also interesting information about freenoting.
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2 Comments
December 17th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
I googled freenoting and found your website. Hell! Me too im tried to use photoreading in IT books.
But unfortunately, i can activate those ones.
Hope to learn more from your website as we have some interests in commons.
regards.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:39 am
I used the techniques to go through some of the Microsoft Certification material and also to study some OO development methods, however, using such method to memorize specific library calls or functions wasnt that good.
Check out this page, it provides a few useful tricks:
http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html