When I annotate, I like to use different colors. Using multiple colors helps me see what I have, and when I am trying to look for something, it makes it that much faster to find it because I know what color to look for. In this case I used three colors. Pink and blue were used for general comments and questions. It started out as pink was for comments and opinions I had and blue was for something I wanted to stand out, but as we got to the last page, blue became my general comments and questions color. I used purple to link other texts to this one.
I think my method of annotation is pretty effective, the only thing is that when I go to write a comment or question or link the text to another one, I get distracted and forget what I just read about so I find myself re-reading the same passage over and over again which takes me longer to finish the entire reading assignment.