Another day, another fun annotating session! 📝🎐
When I really want to understand a paper, I try to “dumb-down” EVERYTHING (!!!) I can, no matter how hard or easy it seemed on the first read.
Also, I organize paragraphs in my own way so that when I come back later, I can quickly scan my bullet points and use them to navigate the paper 💭
🐳 Another BIG reason I post my notes is because I want to normalize sloooooowing down. Not everyone understands or memorizes something after reading it once, and that’s okay!!!! Take as much time as you need with a text. Give yourself permission to slow down, reread, and write as many “dumb” annotations as you want, even the “everyone probably knows what this word means, so why don’t I?” kind 💓 No one’s there to judge you! It took me way too long to let myself stop working the way other people work and start finding a way that actually works for me. I hope you do too!
