Study & reading guides
How to highlight so the marks are still useful in three weeks, what the research actually says about whether it helps, and how to get through a stack of papers when you do not have time to read them properly. Written to be useful whether or not you ever use the tool.
Highlighting vs summarising: which one should you actually use?
One rewrites your text, one marks it. The lossy/lossless distinction decides which tool you want.
6 min readHow to read a research paper without reading all of it
Papers are reference documents, not essays. Three passes, each with a decision point and a budget.
8 min readActive reading strategies that survive contact with a real deadline
Previewing, questioning, SQ3R and the three-mark system — techniques built for the hour you actually have.
7 min readDoes highlighting actually help you study?
Researchers rate it “low utility”. That verdict is about how people highlight, not about highlighting — and the difference is fixable.
6 min readHow to highlight a textbook without turning it yellow
The seven rules that separate a useful revision sheet from a page that is 60% yellow and 0% help.
7 min readHow automatic text highlighting actually works
Sentence segmentation, TF-IDF, TextRank and redundancy filtering — the whole pipeline, explained without the maths.
8 min read