How To Finally Stop Taking Useless Notes At Work | Fast Company - 1 views
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Studies have found the most effective note-taking techniques are active, whereas rereading, highlighting, and underlining are passive techniques.
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Students who wrote longhand notes outperformed laptop note takers in recalling information to pass the quiz. And when the researchers examined the students’ notes, they found a clue as to why: The laptop notes tended to include a lot of verbatim transcription of the video, whereas handwritten notes couldn’t be written fast enough to do the same.
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A series of studies tested drawing against writing and other approaches for memorizing words, and found drawing came out on top.
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