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| | Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes? | |
294 points by romes on March 3, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 134 comments |
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| I want to improve my note-taking skill. I've started writing a text file with notes from class, however, I don't have a systematic way of writing. This means at this point I just wrote down, arbitrarily, things the professor said, things the professor wrote, how I understood the information, and everything else, mostly all over the place. I'm wondering if anyone developed a system like this I could adapt to myself, and how did they do it. |
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The fact that you cannot write everything down forces you to think about what you are hearing and find the important part to write down. Now that you have found the important part the writing helps you remember it.
When you are done with the above throw your notes in the recycling... Note that the above system works for me because I can't read my own writing anyway. (Probably a case of dysgraphia but I've never been formally diagnosed)