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Taking notes you can actually use

How to write down a lesson so that it still makes sense a week later

7 steps · about 15 minutes · grade 4 through college

Start at the beginning

What is in it

1
What notes are actually for
You will know what a good page of notes has to do.
1 question
2
Split the page into three
You will set up a page before class starts.
1 question
3
Write less, keep more
You will get a whole idea into one short line.
1 question
4
Turn your notes into questions
You will fill in the left-hand strip and make the page testable.
1 question
5
Two sentences at the bottom
You will finish a page in under a minute.
1 question
6
One finished page
You will recognise a page that works.
1 question
7
That is the whole method
Genuinely. Everything else is practice.