"The orange highlighter I use for things that I need to examine more closely, think about, or what bothers me."

"The yellow highlighter I use for highlighting what I find really interesting."

"1. Not reading the text first"

"Big mistake number 1 when it comes to highlighting is unleashing the highlighter on your first pass of a text or a document. Until you’ve actually read that chapter or article, you can’t possibly know what the important points are."

"Once you know what you’re actually looking for, you’ll be much better at picking out the important stuff"

"2. Replacing highlighting with your own notes"

"Writing your own notes is an essential part of processing and understanding information. By putting something into your own words, you’re actively digesting and making sense of that concept, as well as committing it to memory. Highlighting is a more passive process, and it doesn’t make the information stick in the same way."

"By putting something into your own words, you’re actively digesting and making sense of that concept, as well as committing it to memory. Highlighting is a more passive process, and it doesn’t make the information stick in the same way."

"As we see it, there are three main ways in which you can use highlighting to enrich your own learning:"

"To pick out the important parts of a text on which to base your own notes."

"To identify the key parts of your own notes once they are written for your own reference."

"If you have a text that you will need to read and re-read over a course of several years and want to remind yourself of the key concepts efficiently."

"3. Only using one highlighter"

"remember it so we can quote it later."

"it’s useful to our own work"

"explore it further, or it sparks off a new idea in our head"

"we don’t agree with it, and want to question it in the course of our own research."

"If you’re highlighting quotes for very different reasons, but always in the same color pen, things start to get confusing very quickly."

"Finally, the pen is for writing down questions, thoughts, and ideas that I think of while reading.”"