First Book Notes

So, I've had some progress since last posting on this site. I finished my first book that I took notes in a Zettelkasten method. I felt like the notes were good. I've transferred them into markdown and I've started my writeup of the book. Once I do that, then I'll need to work on my notes from there. I will say that taking very brief notes does seem to help my initial compehension, but even in leaving the book a few days I don't really remember some of the details around what I read, so my brief notes weren't as valuable.

That being said, it was a good first effort I think at it. What I should probably do is to convert my notes more frequently than I have been doing- instead of waiting until I'm done with the book- maybe convert them to digital daily-ish.

This was a good first book, because while there wasn't a ton of stuff I want to add to the main slip box, there was some good stuff, and I see links to stuff I've both read in the past and stuff I want to read in the future- and that was a bit unexpected from this book, so that was cool!

While my notes are there, the notes section is in a bit of a mess at the moment. Unfortunately, I was working on this in my github codespaces and didn't commit my changes. I figured I could just work from the codespaces and move over once I was done. It seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately, I can't get my codespaces to open back up, so I think those changes are lost. The main thing I lost (I think) was my intial writeup of my purpose for reading and expectations of this book, which I can sorta recreate (I'm not sure those are worth a lot anyway- it was more a way to gauge how well I am picking books to read). This reinforces that I should use branches or similar to stage my changes and then merge them in. As such I'm going to add a level 2 and level 3 to my git article. I spent too much time trying to recover that work, so I haven't put as much time into this of recent.

So far, I'm feeling good about the idea of the Zettelkasten method. I feel like jekyll can work for this purpose. I'm going to have to do a bit more work to get everything working well, but I think I can manage.