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What are the benefits of taking notes?First, let's look at why you should take notes at all. Faster memory: when you simply read, you are using your short-term memory. Writing down transfers information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory, and your visual memory is supplemented by your motor memory. Quickly refresh information in your head, find the answer to an urgent question. An outline saves time: you don't have to revise a lecture or reread a book, just flip through a notebook with important points. It is better to concentrate on the subject. When you take notes, your braRead More...

What are the benefits of taking notes?
First, let's look at why you should take notes at all.

Faster memory: when you simply read, you are using your short-term memory. Writing down transfers information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory, and your visual memory is supplemented by your motor memory.

Quickly refresh information in your head, find the answer to an urgent question. An outline saves time: you don't have to revise a lecture or reread a book, just flip through a notebook with important points.

It is better to concentrate on the subject. When you take notes, your brain doesn't passively absorb information, it processes it. You go deeper into the content of the lecture, you analyse the material. You can start looking for examples from life; you become active and engaged. Such knowledge will already be easier to apply in practice.

Replenish your knowledge base on a particular topic and go deeper into it as needed.

Where to take notes?
By hand in a notebook, or electronically on a computer? There is no clear answer to this question.

Research, including that conducted by researchers at Princeton University, has shown that students who take notes by hand absorb and retain lecture material better. And over time they recall more than those who took notes at a computer. It is also much easier to get distracted when using a laptop. Most students start to check their e-mails, play games, look at open links.

But typing is much faster than writing by hand, and notes are more detailed. When deciding where to take notes, be guided by the task at hand and your own convenience. For example, if you need to create a knowledge base on a topic, an electronic format is more suitable. If the main thing is to remember and comprehend a lot of information, write your notes by hand.

Principles of note-takingThere are some rules of good note-taking.

Only take notes on the most important things. This is one of the key points. Do not write down every word after the teacher. This way, you will quickly tire physically and emotionally, your attention will be focused not on the material, but on having time to write it down. You won't remember much, and then you won't be able to make sense of your notes.

To stay engaged:

Listen to the sentence the lecturer has said to the end, comprehend the information and highlight only the most important things in it. Write down the words and concepts that reflect the subject most: names, dates, ligatures, examples.
Try to retell the essence in your own words, without going into detail.
Do not write down what you already know, pay attention to new information first. For example, if you know that the first flight to the moon was in 1969, there is no point in writing it down.
If you are outlining a book, don't be tempted to rewrite the whole thing. Read the whole chapter, section or subtopic first: that way you will see the big picture and highlight only what is really important.

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What are the benefits of taking notes? First, let's look at why you should take notes at all.
Faster memory: when you simply read, you are using your short-term memory. Writing down transfers information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory, and your visual memory is supplemented by your motor memory.
Quickly refresh information in your head, find the answer to an urgent question. An outline saves time: you don't have to revise a lecture or reread a book, just flip through a notebook with important points.
It is better to concentrate on the subject. When you take notes, your brain doesn't passively absorb information, it processes it. You go deeper into the content of the lecture, you analyse the material. You can start looking for examples from life; you become active and engaged. Such knowledge will already be easier to apply in practice.
Replenish your knowledge base on a particular topic and go deeper into it as needed.
Where to take notes? By hand in a notebook, or electronically on a computer? There is no clear answer to this question.
Research, including that conducted by researchers at Princeton University, has shown that students who take notes by hand absorb and retain lecture material better. And over time they recall more than those who took notes at a computer. It is also much easier to get distracted when using a laptop. Most students start to check their e-mails, play games, look at open links.
But typing is much faster than writing by hand, and notes are more detailed. When deciding where to take notes, be guided by the task at hand and your own convenience. For example, if you need to create a knowledge base on a topic, an electronic format is more suitable. If the main thing is to remember and comprehend a lot of information, write your notes by hand.
Principles of note-takingThere are some rules of good note-taking.
Only take notes on the most important things. This is one of the key points. Do not write down every word after the teacher. This way, you will quickly tire physically and emotionally, your attention will be focused not on the material, but on having time to write it down. You won't remember much, and then you won't be able to make sense of your notes.
To stay engaged:
Listen to the sentence the lecturer has said to the end, comprehend the information and highlight only the most important things in it. Write down the words and concepts that reflect the subject most: names, dates, ligatures, examples. Try to retell the essence in your own words, without going into detail. Do not write down what you already know, pay attention to new information first. For example, if you know that the first flight to the moon was in 1969, there is no point in writing it down. If you are outlining a book, don't be tempted to rewrite the whole thing. Read the whole chapter, section or subtopic first: that way you will see the big picture and highlight only what is really important.

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