Does your history teacher mention the date of a key Civil War battle? Does your English teacher give examples of Shakespeare's use of dramatic irony? Does your math teacher go over a particular formula? Write it down! It can take time to learn how to listen for the main ideas and key facts, so keep trying and don't give up. Some teachers may mention lots of dates and facts in class, but only write the key ones on the board.
Other teachers might not write anything down, but may repeat a certain date or piece of information. That's a clue that it's probably important. After a while, you'll get to know a teacher's style.
Don't overdo it. Don't go crazy taking notes, though: You'll be frantic if you try to write down every word that's said in class. And if you focus too much on getting your notes right, you might miss listening to what the teacher is saying. Some people actually learn better by listening, writing down a few key points, and then going over the material after class when they have more time.
Don't be afraid to ask the teacher to repeat something you miss. Your repository of ideas is especially useful when you keep digital notes. Digitised notes can be grouped and tagged in a variety of ways, as well as searched via text queries. I use Devonthink for this purpose. My Devonthink library is an archive of all the notes I keep as well as other documents and materials I come across that interest me. I use Devonthink to store my notes and document my thinking.
The software then does some linguistic analysis a fancy way of saying it counts and compares similar words and suggests related notes and other materials. Discovering these unexpected linkages is, for me, the joy of Devonthink.
It means I can turn to my notes whenever I need inspiration or additional ideas to apply to my projects. When you have taken good, comprehensive notes and included your own reaction to ideas as well as succinct summaries of key ideas, these notes are invaluable to your future self. Your notes become stand-alone artifacts that can prompt ideas and solutions to your current projects and tasks. By reading over a series of notes grouped by a particular topic or theme, you can start to see how a creative project might take shape.
In effect, you can use your notes to visualise your thinking on a topic. If you ask the above questions as you read and watch materials and note down your answers, you will have a rich collection of thought provoking material. This is the first draft not just of writing, but any complex problem you encounter.
With your own reactions to a number of sources documented in this way, your notes can be the basis of your next project. You just need to pose a question and then organise your existing notes in a certain way to create the outline of a response. This is just a short post that I hope will encourage you to dive deeper into the skill of note taking. Found this post useful? Get more articles like this in my newsletter. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
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What's the best way to take lecture notes? In this video, I'll go over five of the best note-taking systems out there. Do you write down every single word your teacher says in class? Do you only take notes when your teacher writes something on the board?
When it comes to good note-taking habits, there is a happy medium that can pay dividends with a higher GPA! It keeps you awake. Note taking forces you to pay attention and helps you focus in class or while reading a textbook.
It helps you learn. Studies on learning have shown that actively engaging with the topic by listening and then summarizing what you hear helps you understand and remember the information later.
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