How do you retell the idea in your own words? (self.pkms)

submitted 2 years ago by PsychrolutesMarcidus to c/pkms

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That's a big struggle for me. When I was learning about Zettelkasten, the idea of immediatly writing in your own words the summary of a chapter feels daunting. What if I use the wrong words and wouldn't understand later? What I want is to have notes from the book and then use them to write summary maybe in a week after reading a chapter. I can't just do it immediately. What do you think are some good ways to aproach telling in your own words?

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[-] QuillDriven@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@PsychrolutesMarcidus It’s definitely something that you have to practice, so don’t feel overwhelmed!

I personally don’t write a summary immediately, instead taking little notes of specific thoughts in the text I want to remember. Those little notes are in my own words. Then, I scan the notes to see how many talk about the same idea, and use my short notes as a framework to build a zettel.

It’s important that you understand the idea. If you lack understanding, it’s hard to write a zettel that encapsulates the idea well enough to sensibly use it years down the line.

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