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Key takeaways from How to take notes while reading a book

When reading a book, taking notes interrupts our reading flow. There is a fine balance between taking too many notes and taking too few notes.

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Importing these ideas into my note-taking system is a way to create a dialogue between the authors whose work I have read.
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