Is there a secret to effective note-taking? No, I don't believe there is. I believe everyone's situation dictates whether note-taking is easy or difficult.
I recently came across
Note-taking isn't rocket science. It's not an eloquently written piece, and it's quite short, but the basic point is that note-taking is literally just writing stuff down for later use.
But this oversimplified view doesn't apply to every form of note-taking. Some people take notes that require categorization or tagging so the notes can be found more efficiently later. Some people need their notes to be easy to study (e.g. for educational purposes). Some people need to use their notes to learn and make direct application of a set of instructions.
That's just a few things I can think of off the top of my head as to why people take notes. If you expand that list,
it becomes much more difficult to say 'note-taking isn't rocket science' and leave it at that.
It's true, note-taking is not rocket science. But it's also not a simple game of tic-tac-toe. It's often somewhere in between those two things and the level of complexity depends on the reason for the notes being taken. I'm glad the author wrote the article. I like strong opinions and I'm glad some people find note taking easy. But not everyone has the same circumstances or reasons for note-taking.
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