Coaching practices for Question From Notes

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• My notes are just one long undifferentiated wall of text with no place for me to ever question or test myself on them
• My notes are basically the book copied out in my own handwriting
• When I sit down to review, all I do is read my notes over and over, and they feel familiar so I assume I know them
• My notes are these sprawling documents where five ideas are tangled together in one entry, so when I go looking for the one good thought I remember writing, I can never actually pull it back out
• Noting has become second nature and now I’m curious about the one doing the noticing itself

Practices that may help

1. Set up the Cornell three-section page
   Divide your page into three sections: a wide main column, a narrow cue column, and a summary section at the bottom.
   Cornell Note-Taking: A System for Learning, Not Just Recording
2. Take notes in the Q&A format, not verbatim
   Write notes as question–answer pairs, not as copied sentences.
   The SQ3R Method for Active Reading
3. Reduce: convert main notes to questions in the cue column
   After the session, cover your notes and write a question in the cue column for each main idea.
   Cornell Note-Taking: A System for Learning, Not Just Recording
4. Write atomic notes
   One note holds exactly one idea, complete on its own.
   Zettelkasten: Thinking in a Slip-Box
5. Advanced noting — noting the act of noting itself
   Turn attention to the process of noting itself, observing who is doing the labeling and whether the "noter" is also a mental event.
   Noting Practice, Made Practical
6. Layer three: write a brief executive summary
   For the most important notes, add a two- to three-sentence summary at the top that captures the whole note’s essence.
   Progressive Summarization, Made Practical
7. Process notes just in time, not just in case
   Refine a note only when you are about to use it for something real — not on a maintenance schedule.
   Progressive Summarization, Made Practical
8. Know when not to process: most notes are fine as-is
   Not every note needs progressive summarization — most notes serve their purpose as raw captures.
   Progressive Summarization, Made Practical
9. Layer one: highlight the most important sentences
   On first or second reading, highlight the sentences that carry the most signal in this note.
   Progressive Summarization, Made Practical
10. Distill notes through progressive summarization
    Highlight within highlights — each pass through a note extracts the most essential signal.
    Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical

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