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Why I Started Annotating My Books

I’ve officially become one of those people who reads with a pen, tabs, and highlighters nearby… and honestly, I get the hype now.

Here I am at the Denver airport, we travel a lot!

I got into a non-reading rut. It is probably from all the social media scrolling, but we’ll talk about that more later. To sit down and read went from enjoyable to chore. Ugh.

I’m making a lot of changes in July 2026 – starting with the 5am club. Yes, getting up at 5am with 20 min exercise, 20 min reflection 20 min learning. If you want to change, you need to change.

Back to annotation.

I love having a simple little system. A few tabs, a good pen, soft highlighters, and sticky notes make it feel motivated without being complicated. I’m not trying to make my books look perfect — I just want to keep track of the parts I loved.

If you’ve been wanting to try annotating but don’t know where to start, I found a really cute annotation kit that makes it easy because it has everything together in one place — tabs, pens, highlighters, sticky notes, the whole thing. It’s one of those fun little reading extras that makes me want to pick up my book even more.

If you’re curious, I shared the one I found here. As always, only grab it if it looks fun to you too.

Amazon annotation kit: click here 

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