NOTEMAXXING 101 (pt. 3 - how to take better notes during lectures)

If you don't have a strategy for how you're taking your notes, you're probably wasting a lot of your time with them. And I know that because I did it myself. So this is part three of teaching you how to take notes that make learning easier and give you back your time. Part one was all just about general rules of thumb for taking notes. Part two is the different note-taking formats. And now in this part three, I want to talk about the three most useful strategies for taking notes during lectures. Because it's back to school season and you might need that. First is going to be the skeleton notes method. This is if you have a professor that provides you with some form of outline, but they're always adding in information on top of that outline, and then translating it into your words along the way. If this falls apart, professor inevitably, we all inevitably have just where they talk at you for hours. And when that happens, I would use the two pass method. You write down everything that they say the first time, you're basically transcribing. Then you do a second pass through your notes, you're cleaning them up with everything I talked about in Nomaxing one and two. And those both were great unless you have classes where you need to solve anything that is complex or difficult. In that case, I would do annotated examples. Give them the examples that they give you in the textbook or if you find them online, write them down and break them down in your own language with little annotations, what you're doing at each step and why. If you find this helpful, follow for more. And I'll be back tomorrow as always.