How to Become a Masterful Note-Taker: 8 Lessons From Research

The most rigorously structured notes, those with hierarchal ordering and numbered subsections, are of the highest quality and accuracy. 

But although these notes are significantly more precise than freestyle note-taking, there is little difference in the ability of the note-taker to recall the material.

It brings visual structure to notes, usually involving writing one word in the center and drawing offshoots from it with related ideas and phrases.

Mind-mapping is significantly more effective than just writing out notes and helps with presenting the information back with more clarity and coherence than traditional notes.

We remember things that stand out.

Underlining something makes it stand out against other words and that makes recalling that word easier.