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THREAD: A student (new to my methods) asked me what I did when I could not highlight.

Most people know I don’t mark my own books (nor the library’s!) but you can do with yours whatever you want.

Since I don’t mark my books, the highlighting and annotating methods I use ...
... may not work in the same way.

Since I prefer analog systems and do not mark books up, here are a few ways in which I take notes that still retain some of the characteristics of my strategies for printed materials.

I’ll outline them in separate tweets.
1) THE INDEX CARD METHOD:

Since I have used them since grade school, I often take notes of books on index cards.

I usually categorize by colour of said index card, unless I run out of color-coded ones in which case I use non-coloured ones, but with a 1/2” coloured plastic tab
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