Have you ever felt like your notes are more of a cluttered archive than a useful tool? Maybe you’ve scribbled down ideas, bookmarked articles, or highlighted passages in books, only to find them ...

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?

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 ...

Success in academics often hinges less on raw intelligence and more on consistent habits—and effective note-taking is one of the most powerful of them all. Top students know that great notes are more ...

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Essay writing becomes much easier when your notes actually support the way you think. Many students struggle not because they lack ideas, but because their research is scattered across notebooks, tabs ...

Take one look around the lecture hall, and you’re hit with a sea of students buried in their screens and notebooks. Some opt for laptops, rapidly typing away at their keyboards as the professor ...

Justin Dunnavant is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Florida. You can find him on Twitter @archfieldnotes or at his blog AfricanaArch. As graduate students, we are confronted with ...