TikTok: 4 easy ways to annotate a book with tabs
Annotation is one of the best skills a book lover can have in their toolbox, whether you had to learn it for school or you just read a passage in a book that touches home. There is no correct way to annotate, therefore some people like to highlight or write notes in the margins, while others like to put colorful tabs to organize their ideas.
If you've ever used BookTok, you're probably aware of how popular ‘tabbing’ has grown to be there. You're in luck if you've ever seen a TikTok with tabbed books but weren't sure how to create your own! Here's how to use tabs to annotate a book.
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1. Code system
The creation of a code to help you understand what the tabs imply is the most important step in your tab annotation procedure! Pink for romance or romantic times, orange for things the reader dislikes, yellow or green for humorous parts, blue for grief, and purple for questions or significant sections to remember later are a few examples of standard color-coding tabs. The tab structure used by user @mina.undercovera to display 'It Ends With Us' by Colleen Hoover.
2. Color code
By color-coding their tabs to match the colors of the books they're reading, users like @nareenreads on TikTok enhance their annotations, as she did with RF Kuang's 'The Dragon Republic'. While not necessary, having everything match is undoubtedly aesthetically pleasing. The most crucial step is creating a code system so that you can later when you're paging through the book, remember what each color indicates.
3. Important quotes/scenes
To tab the most upsetting sections or quotes can sometimes be the best way to stay on top of the story or discussions the book is having, as user @bumblebeezus can attest. She takes the book 'Six of Crows' by Leigh Bardugo as an example to show how much reading can ruin you.
4. Keeping track of word-building
The user @edenreidreads describes her tab usage. She says that for contemporary or romantic novels, "Most of the time it's just really good one-liners." She adds that "one [color] is just for one-liners that I liked, one is for predictions... and one is for important names or when a character that I feel is going to be important turns up and is described" for works with a lot of word-building.