During WWII, a colonel from Alaska asked Prof. Emeritus Walter J. Pauk to draft a brief guide on how to teach his soldiers to read and study effectively for their correspondence courses. The guide ...

For a long time, my note-taking workflow was a mess with a mix of dedicated apps for long-form writing, quick thoughts, research PDFs, and browser tabs. I had built a system that promised maximum ...

Have you ever felt like your note-taking system is working against you rather than for you? Maybe you’ve spent hours perfecting folder structures, testing out new apps, or diving into productivity ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

Here’s how my notes got better when I stopped trying to make them perfect.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google’s unassuming note-taking app has plenty to offer. Google’s unassuming note-taking app has plenty to offer.

Note-taking is something we all do, whether it means writing down a grocery list on an envelope, a phone number on the back of a business card or a more detailed set of notes, like minutes for a ...

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Many students bring laptops to class, thinking that typing their notes will make them better learners than the 'old fashioned' method of writing by hand. They're wrong. Taking notes is not about ...