This article was updated on October 10, 2023, with additional contributions by Mars Girolimon. How you take notes can affect how much information you’re able to recall. You could make reviewing course ...

Taking effective, meaningful notes is a crucial skill. Not only do good notes help you recall important information when you review them, actually just writing things down can help you learn that ...

These are the best note-taking apps and accessories for annotating PDFs, sketching diagrams, recording your next class lecture, and more. I've been contributing to PCMag since 2011 in a variety of ...

Your iPad can become an indispensable business tool quickly. You can use it to compose and check emails, enter inventory information and even take notes. At some point, if you want to copy the notes ...

Yes, it turns out. Kenneth Kiewra is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who’s been studying note-taking techniques for 40 years. This week, he distilled that ...

Presentation expert and author of "Beyond Bullet Points," Cliff Atkinson suggests keeping most of the notes hidden from your audience when you use PowerPoint. Atkinson says that "when you use an image ...

Works like a charm. You get so caught up in something that you completely miss what is actually more important. Misdirection can thwart the nefarious plans of movie villains and sometimes (temporarily ...