Examples of Note Taking Styles & Online Sources
External Sources
- Remnote is an excellent, free application in which you can take notes and better organize them for future studying.
- Check out more information on the most popular note taking strategies from Oxford Learning.
- You can also look into visual note taking, which implements doodling to increase memory recall and help you identify key points in your notes.
- Life Hack also has a great description of 7 note taking methods.
Here are some common note taking methods to try:
- Cornell Notetaking method – good overall method, helps put into own words in summary & easy to find key ideas with cue column when studying
- Outline – can include a lot of organized detail
- Mapping – good visual, helps to show relationships with topics or steps in a process
- Charting (two ways) – used for comparison
- Boxing – good to keep notes organized by point
