{"id":939,"date":"2011-03-23T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:47:49","slug":"take-note-taking-notes-is-important-how-could-i-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/take-note-taking-notes-is-important-how-could-i-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Take note, taking notes is important: how could I do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our unofficial survey of how people take notes reveals that of those that do, most:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; capture what they hear chronologically, starting at the top of the page<br \/>\n&#8211; only use words<br \/>\n&#8211; write line-by-line in sentences<br \/>\n&#8211; use several pages in their notebooks if the meeting goes on for a while.<\/p>\n<p>In addition,\u00a0some people find themselves drawn to taking down\u00a0lots of detail, perhaps even scribing\u00a0pretty much verbatim what&#8217;s being\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>What are some of the alternative ways to take notes?<\/p>\n<p>2. Use the <a rel=\"no follow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomerycollege.edu\/Departments\/enreadtp\/Cornell.html\">Cornell method<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Take some inspiration from Leonardo Da Vinci who produced some of the best notebooks of all time (right).<\/p>\n<p>4. Do what Bill Gates does (supposedly) &#8211; split your note-taking page into quadrants and record different kinds of information in each &#8211; eg key themes, questions, references and actions.<\/p>\n<p>5. Experiment with our principles for power note taking&#8230;which we&#8217;ll explain tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our unofficial survey of how people take notes reveals that of those that do, most: &#8211; capture what they hear chronologically, starting at the top of the page &#8211; only use words &#8211; write line-by-line in sentences &#8211; use several pages in their notebooks if the meeting goes on for a while. In addition,\u00a0some people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128],"tags":[54,129,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}