Learn to mark your texts not just to find important information, but to create a ranked study guide for your future self, using a "1-2-3" stroke system instead of traditional highlighting to make complex material more manageable.
🤔 Mark texts for three main reasons: to distinguish what matters, to create a "breadcrumb trail" for future study, and to make complex info manageable.
⚠️ Learn that traditional highlighting and underlining are flawed because they create a simple "important/not important" binary and don't require much critical thought.
✨ The "1-2-3 marking system" is to rank information: one stroke for "useful," two for "important," and three for "key concept."
👍 This system's benefits, "1-2-3 marking system," are that it shows the relative importance of information at a glance, is easy to alter, and allows for added notes in the margin.
📚 Be advised to avoid heavily used textbooks, as you don't know the previous owner's system or what they were looking for.
✅ Suggest using a system that helps you, not hinders you; if your current system works and you get good results, keep doing it.
Video Chapters
0:01 - Why Do We Mark Our Texts?
0:44 - A Guide for Your Future Self
1:23 - The Goal: A 3-Part System
1:51 - Problematizing Highlighting
2:16 - The Flaws of Underlining
3:23 - Highlighting's Missing Information
4:17 - The "1-2-3 Marking System"
4:51 - How to Use the 1-2-3 System
5:49 - Benefits of the Stroke System
7:18 - Additional Tips to Remember
8:01 - If Your System Works, Keep It
