NOTEMAXXING 101

If you don't have a strategy for taking your notes, you're probably wasting a lot of your life with them. And I know that because I did it myself for years. So this is part two of everything I know about how to take better notes so that you can learn faster and get your time back. Part one was just about general note taking rules. This part is about a handful of different note taking formats I think everybody should have in their arsenal. If you have a lot of dense detail oriented material coming at you, you would use the Cornell method. It's got a column on the left side for questions or key phrases, the main part is your regular notes and then in the bottom is a summary. It's simpler. It's also my favorite for taking notes during meetings. If you need an overview of everything, of tiered information, I would use the outline method. The main points are indented, a little bit, then sub point one, sub point two, and it shows you the hierarchy of what's important and what is contained within other things. Use it all the time. If you're comparing a lot of different things, I would use charting. Just where you have a table and you compare key differences between things. Last, and I think you'll want to know, mapping or dual coding is when you use visual cues to show how everything flows together. I wrote way more notes than I needed to here, but this is a good example of visual coding because you can see I boxed in different parts and then showed how they all connected to one another. If you find any of this helpful, then follow for more. Be back tomorrow as always.