One key insight I've gotten from this notetaking project with quantum field theory is a confirmation of a hunch that using mulitiple textual sources is key. I have at least half a dozen top-flight monographs on QFT that I've been collecting over the years in anticipating of trying this out. Yes it does work. One key trick was to go to the preface of each book and begin reading until one hits a basic description of the subject of the book, which might include a definition of the terms, including the subject itself, e.g. "what is quantum field theory, and why do we study it?"
Having multiple such sources, one can read all of them simultaneously, at these these key sections like the preface. Somehow doing this allows one's mind to more easily build a standalone understanding of the subject in one's one mind. With ChatGPT, you have another such source, which can connect all the sources together, by asking about certain passages in these books. That's what I've found, at least.
Even if they say virtually the same thing (which they don't), just having the subtle variations of syntax from one author's expression to another forces the mind to develop an understanding that accommodates both variations. One has space of interpretation, not fixed to a particular wording. This is necessary for an understanding, when you put things in your own words eventually. For now you have to rely on someone else's but having multiple sources is like having multiple legs of a table.
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