This article was updated on October 10, 2023, with additional contributions by Mars Girolimon. How you take notes can affect how much information you’re able to recall. You could make reviewing course ...

As a doctor, educator, and administrator, I attend a lot of meetings. That means taking lots of meeting notes and, after those meetings are over, making sure that all of the action items we’ve decided ...

Tired of writing class notes by hand? Digital note-taking offers many practical advantages. We show you how to use Microsoft OneNote to format, organize, and preserve your class notes. I’ve been ...

These are the best note-taking apps and accessories for annotating PDFs, sketching diagrams, recording your next class lecture, and more. I've been contributing to PCMag since 2011 in a variety of ...

Yes, it turns out. Kenneth Kiewra is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who’s been studying note-taking techniques for 40 years. This week, he distilled that ...

Your iPad can become an indispensable business tool quickly. You can use it to compose and check emails, enter inventory information and even take notes. At some point, if you want to copy the notes ...

The Kindle Scribe allows you to take notes while reading, including highlighting text, leaving handwritten notes, and adding sticky notes. You can create notes within eBooks and PDF files sent to the ...

Whether you’re a student, you’re taking down notes during meetings, or you’re a regular at industry lectures and conferences, effective note taking is a skill you could probably benefit from. Although ...

Works like a charm. You get so caught up in something that you completely miss what is actually more important. Misdirection can thwart the nefarious plans of movie villains and sometimes (temporarily ...