Posts Tagged ‘notetaking’

7 Ways to Use Evernote

Last week, Lifehack founder Leon Ho introduced me to the beta note taking application Evernote. Evernote boasts a variety of features that make it an excellent application, including automatic synchronization between the web and your other devices, tagging and sorting features, an online client that makes it accessible from anywhere, and a search feature that can even search text stored within images.From the developers themselves: Evernote allows you to easily… Continue reading

May 26 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: information management, notetaking, web applications | 60 comments»

How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison

Famous inventor Thomas Edison is probably the most experienced note-taker in the world. His diary which is still maintained as an important part of the United States historical record contains five million (5,000,000) pages. Important developments such as his work on perfecting the light bulb and electric lighting systems are captured in great detail. He never met a sheet of paper he didn’t like. What lessons can we take from… Continue reading

October 10 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: notetaking, Productivity | 75 comments»

Writing and Remembering: Why We Remember What We Write

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on note-taking skills. One common experience many people have, and that several people mentioned in response to that post, is that when they take good notes they remember things well enough that they rarely end up having to look at their notes again.In fact, it seems that writing anything down makes us remember it better. On the other… Continue reading

September 28 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, memory, notetaking, studying, thought | 31 comments»

Advice for Students: 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… Continue reading

September 7 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: college, notes, notetaking, school, students, studying, university | 94 comments»

Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking

It's back to school time, and it's time to make good on the promises you made yourself last year to be more organized this time around! One of the stumbling blocks I see most often in my students is taking -- and keeping -- good notes for their classes. Ideally, you'd like to have notes on all your reading, as well as notes from lectures, and you'd like… Continue reading

August 22 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: notes, notetaking, students, study, studying, tool, web, web2.0, webtools, wiki | 42 comments»

The Speedwords Shorthand System

Years ago, Reginald J. G. Dutton created a shorthand writing system that shortened common words, and called them Speedwords.With this, maybe overly confusing, system, words like but, you and because become b, v and zi, respectively.If you're interested in implementing such a system in your shorthand lexicon, check out Jonathan Aquino's Cheatsheet for Speedwords shorthand system.For a brief history, list of words and pronunciation, check this Overview

June 8 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: notetaking, shortcut, writer, writing | 1 comment»

Use Google Calendar to Log Conversations

You're meeting with more people, and having more phone and IM conversations with clients, and the information is getting harder to manage, especially the simple act of remembering what it was you talked about with who. Here are 5 reasons why you should use Google Calendar to log conversations:1.) Search-rich metadata- You can search on date, contact name, or anything you leave in the details section.2.) Date-based record… Continue reading

June 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, conversation, googlecalendar, hack, howto, Lifehack, notetaking, software, web2.0 | 6 comments»