>>24850747 (OP)
I have a google doc with notes from about 40 books, anything from expert literature to poetry. I go through it all every couple years to see if I can connect some new dots and let me tell you ... it's kinda not working. Whenever I need to refresh core points a book makes or I need to look up a particularly quote I know I noted, the google doc proves extremely useful. But apart from that it's a bunch of notes that don't do anything. They definitely don't form a cross-referencing base of knowledge that I hoped it would become.
For books that cover a lot of ground in great detail I usually make a separate doc and then try to organize the points and go through them a couple times to figure out the best way to implement some of the implications in my life. Because that's the best way to retain information - to live it, to make it part of your life, part of your automatic perspective that doesn't have to be propositionally recalled.
