What’s up guys?

So basically, I really want to make the most of my readings and research, and I came here to ask if you guys had any pointers. I have a few books right now and plan on getting some more of what are often considered essential readings according to my research.

I’ve been reading some tips on proper ways to study, and many of them just say read, re-read highlighting important parts, play, then re-read. The only problem is, I have a weird thing with marking up my books so I was thinking it’d be more beneficial to take notes and write down key points that I can quickly reference. This way I’ll have a decent collection of stuff I can review at ease instead of flipping through the main books looking for a specific part. Obviously I won’t be rewriting the whole book in my own words, but I also don’t just want to write down numbers either. I was wondering if you guys had any ideas on what kind of stuff I should write.

Sorry for the rambling but basically my question is what do you guys consider proper note taking? What would you guys take notes on in a book like Theory of Poker by Sklansky (just used that as an example as it’s a very commonly read book). Not everything obviously, just a couple examples that could help me figure out what I should write.

TDA wrote a good post called something like "How to read/study a poker book". Did you see that?

Honestly, I just searched for it all over google, and couldn't find it. Could you please share the link?

I think this is it:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/32...-book-1399203/

I actually just read it over, and it seems very well put together. The only thing is, I don't feel like I'm at a level where I can come up with arguments towards an established author. I was kinda looking for like, what would be stuff that I can come back to for reference or review.

I usually mark (I don't mind bending corners on my books but you could substitute "write down") the ideas that weren't necessarily new to me but we're different than what I expected.

For example, in NLHE:Theory and Practice, they proved out where when betting the nuts on the river, it's often best to bet big rather than small. I had usually tried to undersell the nuts to extract value, so this was something new for me to consider.

In Jeff Hwang's Big Play PLO book, I actually wrote down his starting hand groups and short bullets/examples on an index card to study.

It might be helpful to write down areas/topics that you have questions on (river bluff sizing, preflop squeezing, floating OOP, whatever others come up in the course of your reading) and then just create kind of an index where you mark down page #s and book titles where any of these are discussed. That way you can quickly find them for review as needed.