Learn to Take Notes That You Will Actually Use Later

Notes that transcribe content are not particularly useful. Notes that capture your reaction, your questions, and the connections to what you already know are. The difference is in the approach and a five-minute review step immediately after. This explains the practical version you can start in the next session you attend, whatever that session is.

I take notes but I rarely go back to them or find them useful when I do. Help me change that. Explain the difference between notes that capture content and notes that capture understanding. Give me a practical note-taking approach I can start using in the next session I attend: a lecture, a meeting, a podcast, or a book. Include a review step I can do immediately after that takes under five minutes and that turns the notes into something I will want to find later.