The Cornell Note-Taking System
I have tried this, and tt&#x27;s a good pedagogical method for learning-how-to-learn, but it&#x27;s inconvenient in practice<p>I think it&#x27;s worth learning how to use Anki instead. The key challenge there is selecting the right level of coarseness, so that it doesn&#x27;t take forever. Even if you don&#x27;t end up reviewing your cards, the act of synthesising information helps you learn it. Down the line you&#x27;re able to encode important information in finer detail.<p>Contrary to what you might think, this method is especially useful for really difficult concepts (e.g. in math and physics). Sometimes you sit through a lecture and have no idea what&#x27;s going on until you start doing the exercises. In these cases you might have to use memory as a crutch, to try to memorize the main ideas (or useful facts) to create the scaffold which you fill in later.