Want To Keep Tasks In Control? Learn How To Take Notes Everyday.

Do you feel disoriented and overwhelmed by your daily tasks, especially when things are not sorted? Here are some suggestions to help you improve this situation.

Learn how to write professional notes

There are many methods of taking notes. Here are the three most popular and effective methods being recommended based on a survey:

Cornell method

The Cornell methodology makes it easy to sort notes into summary forms. The convenience of this method is that all the main points, details, questions, annotations and abstracts are displayed within a paper.

Outline method

This is the most useful and popular method, which is suitable for both students and professionals. It allows you to sort out notes in a structured form. This method saves a lot of time for editing and revising the information.

Notes in column

This is a practical and organized method, which is often used when the information is more complex and requires a clearer display such as data taken from facts or statistics.

Use rich visuals

Visual learning is one of the three basic learning approaches in the VAK / VARK Fleming model. People using this method often use charts, maps and diagrams.

In addition, to enhance the information acquirement, you can also use tools such as pen, underline and arrows.

Be creative

If you like drawing, use drawings instead of notes. Do not just focus on exploiting ideas in words. As long as you can understand, it is advisable to limit the writing. Each page is no longer flooded with texts; instead you can just simply use a few simple lines with 2 or 3 sentences for a simple description.

You can also play with the color on your notes to make it looks more vivid.

Leave some space

This may not seem to be necessary for you, but it indeed can help you fill in new information in case you want to add in the future. There’s a chance that as long as you review the notes, you may come up with many more insights. These new information may be even more important than what you have written before.

Include relevant citations

This is a point to keep in mind when you take part in a course, seminar, etc. You should rewrite all the quotes and encode them if you can. This will help you consolidate the important points that you need to keep in mind.

Quotes are relatively easy to remember because they are short, easy to classify and focus on a specific idea. By combining quotes into one place, it’ll be easier for you to find them when you need, or at least you would know where they are.

Refer to the text, books, movies mentioned

In the text, books, movies or related materials, there is a lot of important information. That is why presenters often put it first. That is why when taking notes, you can list the resources needed to facilitate your research and storage.

(This article included some information extracted from lifehacks.vn website)