That’s a big struggle for me. When I was learning about Zettelkasten, the idea of immediatly writing in your own words the summary of a chapter feels daunting. What if I use the wrong words and wouldn’t understand later? What I want is to have notes from the book and then use them to write summary maybe in a week after reading a chapter. I can’t just do it immediately. What do you think are some good ways to aproach telling in your own words?
There are no such things as wrong words. Just write things.
When you come here to post something in Lemmy, do you start shitting in your pants worrying about using the wrong words to write your comment? Probably not.
So why are you doing that when writing simple personal notes? You should worry about it even less than a Lemmy comment, since no one else will see your notes (probably).