I don't see many undergraduates on this list, but hey, you never know. If so, here's an article about what does and doesn't work about taking notes for classes.

https://qz.com/1701631/how-to-take-better-notes/?utm_medium=10today.media.20190904.smartflab.436.1&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling

Of interest, maybe, because we're all students.

Here's the URL without the tacked-on tracking info:

https://qz.com/1701631/how-to-take-better-notes/

Wish it had something to do with outliners though!

Note talking is a very common topic in this forum, isn't it, and a very common reason to use outliners?

satis wrote:

Wish it had something to do with outliners though!

Outlining is a subset of Note Taking. With a few modifications I use, the classic Cornell Method of note taking can be even more useful.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cornell+method&tbm=isch

Cornell method over here, too. In GoodNotes and other software I used my own custom Cornell-Note templates by default, for each note page.

washere wrote:

Outlining is a subset of Note Taking. With a few modifications I use,
the classic Cornell Method of note taking can be even more useful.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cornell+method&tbm=isch

I used Cornell spiral notebooks throughout college and grad school, but they weren't named that back then. They just were "really wide margin" sheets, with no box at the bottom of the page.

Anyone here use - or have an opinion of - Information Mapping techniques for note-taking / documentation?

https://www.informationmapping.com

Without going into the "how-to" details, that site suggests that a disciplined approach to creating, storing, and distributing snippets of "information" in a corporate environment is a good thing. (Makes some broad claims about benefits.)


But is that something applicable to personal note making / outlining?


tightbeam wrote:

Anyone here use - or have an opinion of - Information Mapping techniques
for note-taking / documentation?

https://www.informationmapping.com

I'm too lazy. I do it on paper or my reusable (erasable), anyway my method is uber freeform & not very amenable to digi/docs. Below link is from my bookmarks folder called Outliner. One easy upgrade is to to have outlines in the main 2 vertical sections.

http://templatelab.com/cornell-notes/


Paul Korm wrote:

Cornell method over here, too. In GoodNotes and other software I used
my own custom Cornell-Note templates by default, for each note page.

washere wrote:
Outlining is a subset of Note Taking. With a few modifications I use,
>the classic Cornell Method of note taking can be even more useful.
>
>https://www.google.com/search?q=cornell+method&tbm=isch
>

They brand it cornell now, and no one to pay royalties to either.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cornell+notebook&ref=nb_sb_noss_1


Jeffery Smith wrote:

I used Cornell spiral notebooks throughout college and grad school, but
they weren't named that back then. They just were "really wide margin"
sheets, with no box at the bottom of the page.

This is true, and I've used it for that purpose many years ago, but I wonder if the approach would be beneficial to college note-taking. Reducing the essentials of a course to "snippets" that can be organized into a two-column scannable outline *seems* like a good thing.

Paul Korm wrote:

Without going into the "how-to" details, that site suggests that a
disciplined approach to creating, storing, and distributing snippets of
"information" in a corporate environment is a good thing. (Makes some
broad claims about benefits.)


But is that something applicable to personal note making / outlining?


tightbeam wrote:
Anyone here use - or have an opinion of - Information Mapping techniques
>for note-taking / documentation?
>
>https://www.informationmapping.com
>
>

Several centuries ago, when I was in grad school, it was the rage to use decks of Hollerith cards for note taking. One would manually punch the cards (not using the standard mechanical punching machines) in specific locations using the grid printed on those cards. Say, a location would stand for "Philosophy" and other location for "Modern" and maybe a third location for some topic in Modern Philosophy. So, you would take a very long knitting-needle-like object and jiggle it through the deck of cards to grab the "Philosophy" cards. Then in that subset grab the "Modern" cards, etc. This required patience and dexterity. It was a manual process but quite effective when you got the hang of it.

I don't know if other grad schools had similar processes, it seemed home grown took practice to learn.

No one in their right mind would ever try this in the 21st century. LOL

tightbeam wrote:

This is true, and I've used it for that purpose many years ago, but I
wonder if the approach would be beneficial to college note-taking.
Reducing the essentials of a course to "snippets" that can be organized
into a two-column scannable outline *seems* like a good thing.

I didn't even notice that. Thanks. I'll be more alert in the future.

satis wrote:

Here's the URL without the tacked-on tracking info:

https://qz.com/1701631/how-to-take-better-notes/

Wish it had something to do with outliners though!