Note-Taking
Word count
226 words
Reading time
2 minutes
Types
Digital
- More notes
- Easier to edit
- Less flexible
- Less recall
Outline style
A.k.a. bullet points
- Simple and clean
- Easy to write
- Inexpressive
Hand-drawn
- Less notes
- Harder to edit
- More flexible
- More recall
Flowchart
Shapes and arrows
- Flexible
Tips
- Before class:
- Do preparation as asked by the teacher
- Review the material
- During class:
- Be concentrated
- Rest well!!!
- Synthesize
- Do not record the lesson (not allowed)
- Be concentrated
- After class:
- Ask classmates, friends and teachers
- Review frequently (curve for forgetting)
Digital
- Use snippets
- Use buffers to temporarily store information, which is then extracted when complete
- Bullet points
- Annotate with italic, bold, ==highlight==,
quote, blockquote, callout- importance vs ==relevance==
- Prefer backlinks
- They show order of importance ("parent" nodes are bigger in the graph)
- More natural
- Evaluate importance of relation before linking
- Unnecessary links lead to an incomprehensible graph
- Use normal case for filenames
- Most wikilinks are lowercase
- Faster to type
- Shows casing of proper nouns
Hand-drawn
- Use abbreviations and symbols
- Use colours
Flowchart
- Start with a central circle
- Use keywords with description
Ajitani Hifumi