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There are 4 effective methods for taking notes: 1. The Cornell note-taking system First, divide the page into three parts: one narrow column on the left side, one wide column on the right side, and one section at the bottom part of the page. Write your notes in the right column of the page. That’s your note-taking column. As soon as possible after the lecture is over, use the left column to create questions for every…
- It's helpful to quickly get something out of your brain
- You can easily link related files together or use VScode search to find something. No need for a bunch of categories and nested folders.
I try very hard not to get caught in bikeshedding the perfect note system over actually writing things down. This is very much in the “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of doing literally anything at all” territory. Features i find are actually helpful: - keep a link to the source where you found the information summarized in the note. A url, a DOI and an equation number, whatever. - when you can, physically recopy…
ELI5 : I did not know about this acronym. For those who don't know, it means "Explain me Like I'm 5 years old". https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/
Note that it does not actually mean this. It usually means something more like "Explain like I'm 15 years old"
"Fun" fact: ASAP does not mean "As soon as possible" but instead refers to a wide range of urgency levels from "sometime in the next two weeks" to "as soon as you are humanly capable of doing while keeping your risk of major injury below 2% and cost below $300.
It's a truth that teaching is the best way to learn; even if you never "teach" the course you're learning it's useful write down key points as questions (along with their answers in your notes) and compose an exam from the material you just learned as though you're going to use it to test someone else's knowledge. Then take the exam you created, first right after you're done with your learning session and then again…
- Samsung Note device using an S-Pen to either draw diagrams, rough sketches, or jot notes and then later convert them to saved image files.
- Fountain pens and individual notebooks for meeting notes, book excerpts, quotes, etc. I find that writing down things and having no structure just leads to confusion and a mess of notes that's more time consuming to find when needed. Having sections or just dedicated pages for topics makes it manageable.
- Jotlin app for extensive note taking on a particular topic/interest that wouldn't fit neatly into a couple of handwritten pages.
- Apple Notes/Google Keep rarely but it does serve its purpose if there's nothing else available.
- I type faster than I write and when taking notes or highlighting captures from a book, Google Books has a very useful way of creating a doc file from everything highlighted: book page, page number, relevant highlighted section.
I've tried the whole Bullet Journal techniques and found that it's just an obsessive methodology of note taking with a steep learning curve, it didn't serve my purposes though and I don't knock it if others find it valuable.
Just use a single google doc sheet, everything goes in there and you can access from almost anywhere.
You should try http://roamresearch.com/ and follow #RoamCult on Twitter - they are way ahead on note taking.
Looks nice but that is paid service. Unfortunately i can't afford.
I surveyed 50 engineers a little while ago on how they take notes. This is what I learned. Most people's notes have two phases [0]: 1) Jot-down 2) Organize In the jot-down phase, you write down thoughts and gather any raw resources that are useful to you (code snippets, links, etc.). These notes are messy. In the organize phase, you pull notes from your jot-down that are worth keeping and refine/categorize them. Thes…
He goes through study techniques and backs up their effectiveness by discussing research experiments conducted around them.
Chapter 3 is on academic reading and note taking. It's very good.
Penn recommends the read, recite, review method. @Yvonne_McQ comment gave you some really cool ways to do this like The Cornell note-taking system.
Penn's main point is your memory doesn’t work like a camera, so stop studying as if it did. He says you don’t reproduce information with your memory, you reconstruct it.
Penn also argues that repetition is not the most effective means of committing information to memory. Thinking is the key to memory so he says if you want to remember something, work on explaining it.
He cautions the reader with how we summarise. Not all summaries are equal. He gives an example by asking you to try summarise the story of batman the dark night. You could talk about Harvey Dent and the Joker being the pillars of good and evil and how Harvey becomes two face or you can summarise the film as 'Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill'.
Finally he says to treat everything your trying to learn like 50 shades of grey.
As in people picked up the book with an idea of what they want to get out if it before they started. They skiped over the content that didn't match what they were looking for. They extracted the good bits. When they put the book down it's the good bits they remembered.
Read, recite, review. Check out the Cornell note-taking system mentioned by Yvonne_McQ and Check out 'The psychology of effective studying' by Paul Penn.