Progressive Summarization

Source

1st pass

• Use bold and highlights on the highlights from a book.
• Just mark the areas that express the key point from a highlight and that are surprising and/or something new
• Don’t drill down on a topic. You can do this later. So touch lightly, move quickly.
• For a book it takes around 1-2 hours
• Do the 1-pass processing e.g. in the evening

2nd pass

• working with yellow highlighting to make it even more visible what the ballparks are. Just look on the bold marked items
• things that should really peak your interest in a year from now
• what jumps out
• things that we separated in the source come closer and one can see the connections
• 1/3 of the time of pass #1

3rd pass

Learned from Blinkist Guide with Tiago Forte

• extract the distilled highlights and write it in your own structure and words
• addition by me: add Linking, Comments

Prepare for express or start expressing right away

Linking

• The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to Accelerate Your Learning

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