I recently bought a new tablet and have been using it to take notes more regularly of books that I read and want to learn from.
My workflow has been very similar since my high school days. The more I care to remember what I find in a book, the furter I go down the list.
Depending on what this is, practicing along or after the fact is also important of course - my list isn't exhaustive!
I've traditionally kept notes on plaintext files.
It occurred to me to try speech recognition on Windows, which has been around for a very long time and I was hoping would be better than the last time I tried it.
It is! I was dictating the other day with the oven fan on and it was still able to recognize everything perfectly.
Now I simply write down the table of contents, then go through the book dictating paraphrased versions of what's there.
Win+H will start the speech recognition, and a period will end the sentence (or you can dictate that of course). A bit of cleanup for punctuation or style ("zero" rather than "0" for example), and I'm all done in a moment!
There are a whole bunch of options that can be used apparently, but I'm simply dictating into Emacs and my needs are quite simple.
To learn more, see Use voice typing to talk instead of type on your PC. This includes punctuation (for example, say "full stop" or "period" rather than just "stop", or "new line" to insert a line; it may vary by OS version).
Happy dictating!
Tags: writing