Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work

Taking Notes that Work

Note-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how to take notes. Then we sit around and complain that our students don’t know how to take notes.

I figure it’s about time to do something about that. Whether you’re a high school junior or a college senior or a grad student or a mid-level professional or the Attorney General of the United States, the ability to take effective, meaningful notes is a crucial skill. Not only do good notes help us recall facts and ideas we may have forgotten, the act of writing things down helps many of us to remember them better in the first place.

What Do Notes Do?

One of the reasons people have trouble taking effective notes is that they’re not really sure what notes are for. I think a lot of people, students and professionals alike, attempt to capture a complete record of a lecture, book, or meeting in their notes — to create, in effect, minutes. This is a recipe for failure. Trying to get every last fact and figure down like that leaves no room for thinking about what you’re writing and how it fits together. If you have a personal assistant, by all means, ask him or her to write minutes; if you’re on your own, though, your notes have a different purpose to fulfill.

The purpose of note-taking is simple: to help you study better and more quickly. This means your notes don’t have to contain everything, they have to contain the most important things. And if you’re focused on capturing everything, you won’t have the spare mental “cycles” to recognize what’s truly important. Which means that later, when you’re studying for a big test or preparing a term paper, you’ll have to wade through all that extra garbage to uncover the few nuggets of important information?

What to Write Down

Your focus while taking notes should be two-fold. First, what’s new to you? There’s no point in writing down facts you already know. If you already know the Declaration of Independence was written and signed in 1776, there’s no reason to write that down. Anything you know you know you can leave out of your notes.

Second, what’s relevant? What information is most likely to be of use later, whether on a test, in an essay, or in completing a project? Focus on points that directly relate to or illustrate your reading (which means you’ll have to have actually done the reading…). The kinds of information to pay special attention to are:

  • Dates of events: Dates allow you to a) create a chronology, putting things in order according to when they happened, and b) understand the context of an event. For instance, knowing Isaac Newton was born in 1643 allows you to situate his work in relation to that of other physicists who came before and after him, as well as in relation to other trends of the 17th century.
  • Names of people: Being able to associate names with key ideas also helps remember ideas better and, when names come up again, to recognize ties between different ideas whether proposed by the same individuals or by people related in some way.
  • Theories: Any statement of a theory should be recorded — theories are the main points of most classes.
  • Definitions: Like theories, these are the main points and, unless you are positive you already know the definition of a term, should be written down. Keep in mind that many fields use everyday words in ways that are unfamiliar to us.
  • Arguments and debates: Any list of pros and cons, any critique of a key idea, both sides of any debate related in class or your reading should be recorded. This is the stuff that advancement in every discipline emerges from, and will help you understand both how ideas have changed (and why) but also the process of thought and development within the particular discipline you are studying.
  • Images and exercises: Whenever an image is used to illustrate a point, or when an in-class exercise is performed, a few words are in order to record the experience. Obviously it’s overkill to describe every tiny detail, but a short description of a painting or a short statement about what the class did should be enough to remind you and help reconstruct the experience.
  • Other stuff: Just about anything a professor writes on a board should probably be written down, unless it’s either self-evident or something you already know. Titles of books, movies, TV series, and other media are usually useful, though they may be irrelevant to the topic at hand; I usually put this sort of stuff in the margin to look up later (it’s often useful for research papers, for example). Pay attention to other student’s comments, too — try to capture at least the gist of comments that add to your understanding.
  • Your own questions: Make sure to record your own questions about the material as they occur to you. This will help you remember to ask the professor or look something up later, as well as prompt you to think through the gaps in your understanding.

Note-Taking Techniques

You don’t have to be super-fancy in your note-taking to be effective, but there are a few techniques that seem to work best for most people.

  • Outlining: Whether you use Roman numerals or bullet points, outlining is an effective way to capture the hierarchical relationships between ideas and data. In a history class, you might write the name of an important leader, and under it the key events that he or she was involved in. Under each of them, a short description. And so on. Outlining is a great way to take notes from books, because the author has usually organized the material in a fairly effective way, and you can go from start to end of a chapter and simply reproduce that structure in your notes.

    For lectures, however, outlining has limitations. The relationship between ideas isn’t always hierarchical, and the instructor might jump around a lot. A point later in the lecture might relate better to information earlier in the lecture, leaving you to either a) flip back and forth to find where the information goes best (and hope there’s still room to write it in) or b) risk losing the relationship between what the professor just said and what she said before.

  • Mind-mapping: For lectures, a mind-map might be a more appropriate way of keeping track of the relationships between ideas. Now, I’m not the biggest fan of mind-mapping, but it might just fit the bill. Here’s the idea: in the center of a blank sheet of paper, you write the lecture’s main topic. As new sub-topics are introduced (the kind of thing you’d create a new heading for in an outline), you draw a branch outward from the center and write the sub-topic along the branch. Then each point under that heading gets its own, smaller branch off the main one. When another new sub-topic is mentioned, you draw a new main branch from the center. And so on. The thing is, if a point should go under the first heading but you’re on the fourth heading, you can easily just draw it in on the first branch. Likewise, if a point connects to two different ideas, you can connect it to two different branches. If you want to neaten things up later, you can re-draw the map or type it up using a program like FreeMind, a free mind-mapping program (some wikis even have plug-ins for FreeMind mind-maps, in case you’re using a wiki to keep track of your notes).
  • The Cornell System: The Cornell System is a simple but powerful system for increasing your recall and the usefulness of your notes. About a quarter of the way from the bottom of a sheet of paper, draw a line across the width of the page. Draw another line from that line to the top, about 2 inches (5 cm) from the right-hand edge of the sheet. You’ve divided your page into three sections. In the largest section, you take notes normally — you can outline or mind-map or whatever. After the lecture, write a series of “cues” into the skinny column on the right, questions about the material you’ve just taken notes on. This will help you process the information from the lecture or reading, as well as providing a handy study tool when exams come along: simply cover the main section and try to answer the questions. In the bottom section, you write a short, 2-3 line summary in your own words of the material you’ve covered. Again, this helps you process the information by forcing you to use it in a new way; it also provides a useful reference when you’re trying to find something in your notes later. You can download instructions and templates from American Digest, though the beauty of the system is you can dash off a template “on the fly”.

I’m sure I’m only scratching the surface of the variety of techniques and strategies people have come up with to take good notes. Some people use highlighters or colored pens; others a baroque system of post-it notes. I’ve tried to keep it simple and general, but the bottom line is that your system has to reflect the way you think. The problem is, most students haven’t given much thought to the way they think, leaving them scattered and at loose ends — and their notes reflect this. What advice do you have for the folks out there trying to get it all together this semester?

  • http://notesake.com Ian Smith

    And a great website to take notes on is http://notesake.com whose editor supports LaTeX and Textile markup languages, as well as multi language support for students foreign language classes.

    Ian Smith
    co-founder of http://notesake.com

  • http://sophisticat.org Nina

    Very nice list! I had never heard of the Cornell System until now. Thank you.

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  • http://shawnday.com/randomosity Shawn Day

    Another practical, helpful article.
    Thanks Dustin.
    The Cornell System was new to me as well. Intriguing.
    The corollary of this is how the lecturer’s use of presentation media can help in this process. Presenting a rolling outline helps enormously, I think, and making a constant connection to where what is being said fits into the overall schema keeps the the lecturer and lecturee (?) in sync.

  • Ryan Stewart

    You could also use the increasingly popular Cornell Notepaper PDF Generator found at http://eleven21.com/notetaker

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  • http://singsurfknit.wordpress.com RogueTess

    I’m a HS teacher and just today (2nd day of school) I spent about 20 minutes in each class on notetaking! I use the structure of the Cornell notes and focus mainly on paraphrasing, symbols and shorthand, setting a purpose (affects type of notes), and leaving white space. I’m a big proponent of metacognition — teaching students to be aware of “how” they learn and think — so your blog is a terrific resource.

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  • http://ravivora.com/blog Ravi Vora

    These tips can also apply to meetings for careers, not just those in school.

  • http://science-student.com/ Nate Kocher

    One of the most overlooked ways to increase comprehension is to…. READ MATERIAL BEFORE THE LECTURE!

    ps. great article

  • http://www.dwax.org Dustin Wax

    Ravi, that’s very true, and I tried to make that point (and poke fun at the poor recall of our now ex-Attorney General at the same time). Note-taking at meetings can be even more focused, since there often is someone there taking minutes. A difference that might be important, though, is that business meeting notes tend to be more action-oriented than class lectures, though I can imagine a modified version of the Cornell template being used to extract actions and goals from one’s meeting notes.

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  • http://www.webtuga.com cenourinha

    Great tips!

    Tank you… i really need that.

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  • Amanda Himelein

    I’m one of the one who uses color-coding. If possible, I try to take notes on what the lecturer is saying in black. My own thoughts (relevant to the lecture or not) are in blue. Questions and to-dos go in some bright, red-tone color — when I can I do it in bright pink — which calls it to my attention when I review them later.

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  • Peter Stanley

    In a discussion class with a smart professor sometimes the best notes are the questions that the professor asks. This oftentimes points out the most important parts of the assigned materials.

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  • http://www.youngwriterssociety.com Nate

    This was great! I’m in law school right now, and even though I already knew everything here, it was all buried way back there. Sometimes you need a jolting reminder of why you are taking notes to begin with.

  • http://pfirsch.livejournal.com pfirsch

    I wanted to add another link: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
    (The Cornell System links are farther down the page, and they are European-paper friendly.)
    Even though I have never used the Cornell system and have only heard about it in the past few years, it sounds like it would be an effective means of taking notes.

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  • Eric

    My favorite Cornell note paper generator is at http://eleven21.com/notetaker/.

    Blank, ruled, grid, double-sided, single-sided, Ted style…. it rox my sox.

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    The mindmapping link is bad, fyi.

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  • Kaer

    I’m not a student anymore, i’m now a coder, i was not really good at taking notes in my studies (in fact i was really bad :p) but for my job taking note is essential. I’m often in meetings to discuss what to change, what to add, what to improve for the tools i’m working on.

    As personnal, i have bad memories about what it said in meetings so i really needed to be good in what it was said.

    Here how i’m taking note.

    I’m cutting things in a hierarchical ways :

    CORRECTION TO DO:
    |
    -> DESCRIPTION OF THE CORRECTION
    |
    -> WHERE IS THE CORRECTION
    |
    -> WHAT IT POTENTIALLY IMPACT

    |
    -> WHAT I NEED TO PAY INTENTION

    This typically how my note are structured, and it very effective for me . This hierarchical arrow thing is really visual and you now where you are at anytime in whic subject. I admit i’m writing a lot of details but its just me.

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    Amazing. Just the other day I was talking to my brother in Islam about how to take notes. I had no idea how to take notes–I mean, I did–but not really. So yea, I asked my brother to pull up as many articles as he can about note-taking skills. Well, here we are.

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  • http://www.xgipublishing.com Rick Dearman

    This is a brilliant article on note-taking!

    Not only is taking notes important for students but for people in all walks of life, especially business people.

    One of the core things that I didn’t see mentioned in your article was that you need to review your notes not long after having taken them and do some or all of the following.
    - Tidy up misspellings or abbreviations
    - Rewrite and expand portions where you may not have put in sufficient detail while it is fresh in your mind.
    - Transfer any actions you might have to your todo list if required.

    Also it is a good idea to never use the reverse side of the paper when you take notes. This allows you space to add additional notes or more information you might find later. Also review your notes with others that were at the lecture or meeting so you can update with things you might have missed.

    In addition it helps to know some type of speed-writing system for taking notes.

    I have written a book specifically for business people and managers on effective note-taking.

    Rick Dearman
    http://www.xgipublishing.com/EffectiveNotes.php

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    I remember using this article extensively in college. The mindmapping is especially recommended.

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  • http://www.camptechnique.com Peter Camp

    Excellent article Dustin Wax it was very interesting and informative. I want to present it to all my ex-school and college students.

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    I have a question – do IPADS and app not cancel and replace notetaking?

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  • Josieannday

    I have a question also:
    When Im taking notes in class, and my teacher has a slide show to copy from, do I still write everything or just the MAIN important things.

    • Caitie

      You should copy down the “main things” or the things your instructor emphasizes the most. You could also write a summary of the bullet points on the board. To put it in your own words is best because it will help you remember the information more accurately. 

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  • http://collegetipster.wordpress.com/ collegetipster

    Just thought I would tell you that I love this post. In my experience most people don’t know how to take notes and that needs to change. Personally I use the cornell system for my lecture classes and the outline method for my other classes. I found a use for mind mapping as a way to study by trying to put all the main ideas on a web with out my notes. I can’t wait to read more of your posts

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1394411722 Kathryn Sinclair Lanier

    Situation in chemistry class: Notes to copy from the board AND a lecture going on at the same time. How can my 15 year old learn to keep up with the lecture, notes from the lecture, and the notes on the board??? 

  • Anonymous

    I’ll tell my younger brother about this notetaking tips. He could use this. Thanks Dustin. My brother would love this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/saintsgoalltheway2010 Bryan Thomsen

    One thing I had great trouble with in school was notetaking. It was more of writing lists and writing what the instructor was saying or reading out of the book. I learned through the rote method of learning. In college, I taped recorded lectures even though some instructors vehemently opposed it.