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Note Taking:
FY-110 Fall 2014
Observe:
O - Observing
R - Recording
R - Reviewing
What to do when you miss a class:
Clarify policies on missed classes
Contact your instructor
Contact a classmate
Consider Technology
Record
General Techniques:
Use key words
Use pictures and diagrams
Write notes in paragraphs
copy material from the board
Use a three-ring binder
Use only one side of your paper
use 3/5 cards
keep your thoughts separate
use an "I'm lost" signal
label, number, and date all notes
use standard abbreviations
leave blank space
take notes in different colors
use graphic signals
Specific Formats:
1. Cornell Method and other column-type formats
2. Paragraph
3. Listing - telegraphic format
4. Outlining
5. Mind Mapping
1. Set the Stage
2. "Be here now" in class
3. Watch for clues
Review within 24 hours
Edit notes -make sure you can read everything
Fill in key words or concepts that are missing
Conduct short weekly review periods
Consider typing your notes
Create summaries
Review

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Note Taking: FY-110 Fall 2014Observe:O - ObservingR - RecordingR - ReviewingWhat to do when you miss a class:Clarify policies on missed classesContact your instructorContact a classmateConsider TechnologyRecordGeneral Techniques:Use key wordsUse pictures and diagramsWrite notes in paragraphscopy material from the boardUse a three-ring binderUse only one side of your paperuse 3/5 cardskeep your thoughts separateuse an "I'm lost" signallabel, number, and date all notesuse standard abbreviationsleave blank spacetake notes in different colorsuse graphic signalsSpecific Formats:1.

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College Readiness 02: Advanced Note Taking Skills

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College Readiness 01: Reading & Note Taking Skills

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Whether you're headed back to school this fall or you just want a better way to keep your notes, memos, and other tidbits of information organized, you have a number of applications to choose from. Some of them just help you get your thoughts down quickly, others sync with online services that organize your notes for you. Here are, based on your nominations, the top five apps or services for the job. [jump]

We asked you earlier in the week which applications or services you used to take notes and organize your thoughts so you could get back to them quickly. You responded, and we collected the votes. Now we're back to highlight the top five. Photo by MagneticNorth.

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Evernote helps you remember everything-and by everything, we really do mean everything. The service's webapp, desktop apps for Windows and Mac OS, mobile apps for iPhone and iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, and even WebOS mean that Evernote can help you take notes, save them, tag them with a location, create and organize notebooks, and share them anywhere you are and on any device you happen to have on you. Evernote is great for taking notes and organizing them, but it's just as good at letting you capture, scan, and save objects in real life, clip web pages you browse, and share them with friends, colleagues, and classmates.

Springpad

Springpad takes the hassle out of organizing your notes and thoughts for you, and organizes everything without your help. You have to set up a few basic categories, but of all of the note taking services, Springpad is probably the best at automatically guessing what it is you've just clipped from the web, snapped a photo of, or uploaded to your notebooks and organizing it without your help. Products you've saved automatically go into a wishlist and you're alerted on price drops, notes go into notebooks organized by topic, and more. Plus, Springpad's webapp and mobile app for iPhone, iPad, and Android mean you're never without your notes and the ability to access them. Plus, the service just updated to incorporate your Facebook friends' likes and interests to your account.

OneNote grew from a side-component of Microsoft Office (for Windows) into a full-fledged and robust note taking and organization tool in its own right. The tool functions like a basic word proessor, but it saves automatically, lets you enter any kind of information anywhere, create and save notebooks for specific subjects and projects, and then share those notes and notebooks with others. OneNote is easy to get started with and use, and makes note taking and organization incredibly simple. While OneNote is part of Microsoft Office, you can download versions of the suite for the iPhone and for Windows Phone 7, and use the OneNote webapp to take and save notes on the go from any web-enabled device.

Simplenote is easy to use, free, and has a robust user and developer community behind it creating apps and utilities that plug into the service to make it even easier to use. Simplenote lets you easily jot down your thoughts and organize them by tag, search note contents and tags later to find what you need again later, search through revision history for your notes, share them with others, and access them on any web-enabled device. Simplenote does have premium accounts, but all of the service's basic functions are free. There are Simplenote apps for the web and iOS, but developers have built dozens of notetaking apps that work in conjunction with Simplenote for Windows and Mac OS.

Pen(cil) and Paper

Many of you said you don't need a special app to take notes: you don't even need a computer or a tablet to stay organized. Sometimes the oldest methods are the best, and you said that when you head to class or into a meeting, you bring pen and paper instead of laptop or tablet. What happens to those notes after the meeting vary; some of you type them up and store them, others just organize your paper notes, but for many of you paper and pen (or pencil) is the way to go. Photo by Ramunas Geciauskas.

Now that you've seen the top five contenders, it's time to vote for an all-out winner.

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Honorable mentions this week go out to Notational Velocity and Catch, both of which have a large and dedicated following. Notational Velocity is Mac only, but boasts the ability to sync with Simplenote, the ability to search note content, title, and tags quickly, and make it incredibly easy to encrypt, save, and retrieve your important data. Catch on the other hand sports a robust webapp and mobile apps for the iPhone. iPad, and Android devices. It also keeps your notes secure, lets you share them on Twitter, and allows you to clip and save almost anything you want to keep and remember later.

Also worth mentioning is the venerable text editor-many of you said you use whatever text editor you have on hand instead of a specific app or service, and that suits you just fine. Have anything to say about the contenders? Did your favorite not make the list? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

You can reach Alan Henry, the author of this post, at alan@lifehacker.com, or better yet, follow him on Twitter or Google+.

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How to Make a Mind Map. People have been using visual methods of representing, organizing and understanding information since ancient times. In the 1970s, researcher and educator Tony Buzan formally developed the mind map. Its colorful,...

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How good are your note taking skills?

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Did I?

Review assignments using active reading.

List and look up unfamiliar terms and concepts.

List questions to ask or points where clarification is needed.

Note difficult portions of the text.

Put notes in the appropriate notebook or section.

Arrange them according to type of notes.

Begin each set on a new dated and numbered page.

Abbreviate.

Put notes into my own words.

Keep the notes brief.

Use the coding scheme I developed.

Locate missing information.

Check my texts and references to clarify a lecture.

Number items or distinguish between major/minor points.

Look/listen for word clues and other ways important concepts are highlighted.

Review lecture notes within twenty-four hours.

Check for errors and omissions

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Choose the appropriate writing utensil

Choose a notebook that assists in note taking - what works best for you.

Decide whether to take your textbook to class

Consider the pros and cons of using a laptop computer to take notes in class

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1. Identify the Instructor's and your goals for the course.

2. Complete all assignments before coming to class.

3. Accept the instructor, despite his or her limitations.

4. Preform a preclass warm-up - take a few minutes to review

the reading assignment and notes from the previous class session.

5. Choose a seat in the classroom that will promote good note taking.