Preferably, we should use no more than one piece of A4 paper to do this. Whether we’re sat in a lecture, learning from a textbook, or following an online course (like my Part-Time YouTuber Academy), it’s important to have a blank page to write down all the meaningful points and ideas that you hear/read. The most obvious aspect of any note-taking method is that we need somewhere to actually write our notes. Review – we should regularly revisit our notes to ensure maximum retention.Reflect – our notes should be related to other notes we’ve already written.Recite – there needs to be an easy way to test ourselves using our notes.Reduce – there should be somewhere to summarise those notes.Record – there should be somewhere to take our notes (obviously).These essential characteristics are known as the 5 R’s of note taking: Do what works.īut, regardless of our preferred method, a good note taking + learning technique should have some easily identifiable characteristics.
If you’ve already found a technique that works for you, there’s really little point changing things. And to a large extent the ‘correct’ note-taking method is a very personal thing. Summarising, highlighting, and creating mind maps are just a few of the most popular methods. In short, a good note-taking technique is one that helps us remember, retain, and recall the most amount of information.Ĭlearly, there are a number of different ways we can take notes when learning stuff. The way we take our notes influences how well we learn.
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