https://forum.fortelabs.co/t/anti-book-club-book-summary-archive/2707

by Tiago Forte

In 2018 I ran two rounds of a new kind of book club, which I called the Anti-Book Club. Instead of having everyone read the same book, I assigned different books to each of 59 Praxis members who opted in to participate.

I drew from a list of books on extended cognition, personal knowledge management, note-taking, visual thinking, or other topics related to Building a Second Brain, and asked everyone to summarize their book using progressive summarization and a standardized note template.

I’m sharing the notebook of 59 book summaries below with all current and past BASB participants. I have found them tremendously useful in my own research, and I hope they will also be valuable to you. They contain a lot of insightful ideas, examples, models, and stories that could be useful in your own work. And they are great examples of using progressive summarization as a way to preserve and communicate the key ideas in a text to another person.

Click here to view the shared Evernote notebook 91

You can click “Join notebook” on the left sidebar to add this notebook to your Evernote account, where it will be searchable and editable along with all your other notes.