This is a YouTube video titled "ADD? Annotate while you read" created in November 2024. The content features a single speaker sharing personal strategies for staying focused while reading, especially with ADD, by annotating text through underlining, margin notes, and highlighting key sentences to improve both comprehension and writing skills.
If you have add, you should annotate while you read. I have really bad add, so this is what I annotate to stay focused. Right now, I'm reading this book, Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnemann. So first I go through and I underline phrases that really stand out. Hooks, you know, why is it grabbing my attention? Like this one, it was like the building was a massive tin can that had been crushed by a giant cosmic boot. Underlined that. Next, I write notes to myself in the margins. So how is the writer moving the story forward, or how are they keeping my attention? So here I wrote planting the seed for why this character is perfect to Tor in a game show setting, because that's the premise of the book. Lastly, when I finish a chapter, I do this highlighter exercise I stole from George Saunders, who's a really talented American writer. I go back, and I essentially only highlight the sentences and paragraphs that are absolutely critical to the story. And this helps me learn, you know, what's most important, what are the mechanisms that are really moving things forward and keeping my attention. And I do all of this not just to stay focused, but so that I can learn how to make my own writing better.
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