Posts Tagged ‘notes_taking’

A Notebook and a Brain

I found a great reminder of high school, college, and dream journals in an article from DiYPlanner. I've always liked notebooks, to keep track of dreams, records, ideas, and so much more. It also might be good for your hand to write a while instead of type! Here are a few tips and ideas for notebooks:

  • If you're using the notebook for creative purposes as well, don't

How do I take notes on big books

Ask Metafilter has a good discussion on how to take notes when reading. The readers have suggestion couple of tools such as paper notes, index card, personal wiki, software and so on. It is interesting to see many people who uses similar tools but different note taking method. For instance: ... 1. In part, I credit the speed with which I finished my dissertation (in English) to limiting the number… Continue reading

Yahoo! Notepad Bookmarklet

Ever want to save a quick notes online, so you can refer it later? I think many people use Yahoo! Notepad. However sometimes it is troublesome to go to Yahoo!, login and cope and paste the text you have found. Try this bookmarklet - It will add selected text to Yahoo! Notepad:

  1. Drag the link !note to your Bookmarks Toolbar.
  2. Select some text, click the bookmarklet, sign in (if you aren't already)

Handling Meeting Notes

Matthew Cornell has written an idea on how to deal with meeting notes. You may have loads of meeting and taken a lot of notes. If you are not dealing with them, you may end up with pile of useless papers. Matthew found out if you are using Getting Things Done method, you should deal with the notes just like any other actionable items. He made an example on actioning… Continue reading

Guide on Cornell Note Taking Method

Over at Westshore Community College, it has a very good quick guide on how to use the Cornell Note Taking Method. In this note taking system, you have note taking area to record meaningful notes; A Cue column for reducing your notes to clues for reviewing and reciting, and summaries for summarize the whole page of notes. One of the good things for using this note taking system is that… Continue reading

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