All Annotations of Geek to Live: Take great notes - Lifehacker[Preview]

saved by34 people, first byRichard Hemmer on 2006-04-14, last byRalph Poole on 2008-06-17

• DIY notepaper

  
  
  

  There are a few neat little webapps out there that produce custom PDF's of formatted, lined notepaper with various options for printing out before your meeting and possibly stowing in a binder.

  
  
  

  Notepaper Generator [Simson.net]

  
  

  

  Create a PDF of a lined page with a small monthly calendar in the header and an optional summary box in the upper right hand corner. Choose your font face and optionally include punch holes as well.
  

  Cornell Method PDF Generator [Study Smarter]

  
  

  Prints pages split up into the Cornell notepaper style with unlined, ruled or graphed sections. Optionally include your name, the date, and the name of your class, and up to 4 punch holes for use in a binder. Also, choose the line darkness on a scale from gray to black.

  
  
  

  Notepad Generator [Michael Botsko]

  
  

  

  This PDF notes template includes your name, number, the date, project name and splits the page into two sections: one for notes (with lines) and the other for action items with due dates, with optional punchholes.
  
  

  What do you use to take notes in meetings? How do you keep your jottings organized and useful after the fact? Let us know in the comments or to tips at lifehacker.com.

  
  
  

  Gina Trapani, the editor of Lifehacker, is getting better at taking worthwhile notes. Her semi-weekly feature, Geek to Live, appears every Wednesday and Friday on Lifehacker. Subscribe to the Geek to Live feed to get new installments in your newsreader.

  
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• A system more targeted towards students digesting large amounts of information on a daily basis, the Cornell note-taking method also separates the page into different areas, as pictured:

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  • Note taking area: Record lecture as fully and meaningfully as possible.
  
  
  • Cue column: As you're taking notes, leave the cue column empty. Soon after the lecture, reduce your notes to concise jottings as clues for Reciting, Reviewing and Reflecting.
  
  
  • Summaries: Sum up each page of your notes in a sentence or two.

• on 2006-04-14 Santhosh
  Effective Note taking..
• on 2006-08-10 Microsafe17
  Great how to on taking notes for all of those meetings, classes, etc.