Welcome @amperland!
To add to the existing replies, I’ll say that, in my opinion, note-taking is very personal. It might depend on your field and on what you want to take out of your notes, but there’s no better way to find that out than to start. I’ll try to point you to a few resources in the forum that might give you ideas of how other people use it:
I personally do this with Zotero + Obsidian which helps me automate a few things of that process. My original post is here: Zotero plugin to export metadata and notes to markdown (although beware, it’s a bit old and my workflow has changed a bit. I should probably write a follow up!).
I also wrote a few tips on how to use Zotero (and mdnotes, the plugin I wrote for this) over here: Zotero best practices - #57 by argentum.
@tallguyjenks has also made a video of how he uses this:
There are also a few plugins that could help with that if you don’t feel like using Zotero:
I also recommend taking a look at the post by @PhDResearch, particularly his interview, to get a glimpse into another possible way to approach taking notes:
Other related threads:
- Research/PhD/Academics
- Hierarchy or Graph for Litterature Review in Research
- [Graduate Studies] Information Management and Studying
Finally, feel free to reach out to us in the #academia channel in the Discord server!