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☞ Want to enhance your sticky-note-taking game, you’ve arrived at the right spot.
Content
● Advantages of using sticky notes
1. Annotating a book can be useful for future reference, but in a literature book it can ruin the reading experience itself. Annotations also make it look untidy or messy.
2. Writing on sticky notes allows to keep the book intact, but also to expand the surface on which you can write since the margins can be quite crowded.
3. Sticky notes allow to write down your thoughts or your ideas and keep record of the conversations between the book and you.
4. If you prefer to gather your thoughts in one central place, once you’re done with the book, the notes can be transferred to a new support, be it paper or electronic.
5. Keeping a sticky note pad on me has allowed me to take quick notes on the go or always have paper to write on if an idea emerges out of the blue.
● Sticky notes as an effective tool
☞ In order to make these an effective tool you need to have them handy.
I always carry around a minimal pack of sticky notes that I’ve assembled in a kit.
This way I always have a way of marking things that were of interest or worth noting down.
☞ What things can you note?
Fiction books
- thoughts about the content
- a link made between one work and others
- make summaries
- make a character’s profile
- answer who/what/where/when/why
- note the recurrence of themes or the way they manifest
- divide the narrative a different way
Non-Fiction Books
- draw diagrams
- add definitions
- complete the information in the book
- leave notes for further inquiries
- answer questions the text makes
- build hypotheses of your own
- comment the reasonning
- question the methods
● Sticky note Varieties
- Traditional squares
- Write down quick snippets or notes to review later
- Larger sized
- to write more extensively or make a quick drawing evoked by the reading
- Lined sticky note
- To write in a more organized manner
- Square lined note
- To write more precise diagrams
- To make graphs
- To note formulas down
- Translucent notes
- To write notes in between the lines of the text
- To copy detailed diagrams from the book
- To write notes over diagrams
- Long coloured translucent notes
- To highlight specific sentences or words in a non-permanent way
- Flags (I’ve already made a detailed post focused on flags, check it out)
- To highlight parts of the book
- To mark pages of reference in the book
- To mark your progress in a reading
● Recap
☞ Wether you want to complete the information in a book, add your own insights, criticize it or add to the argument, sticky notes are a great way to leave a mark without making it permanent. They adapt marvellously to the amount and type of information you like to work with.
● Questions & Comments 😄💬 Let’s Chat
☞ What is your favourite way to use sticky notes?
☞ What is your favourite sticky note design?
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The ESL Teacher C · Nomad Educator 
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