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What Students Get Wrong About Note-Taking

The problem with ‘how to take notes for study’ guides, and what to do instead…

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I’ve been a student almost my whole life.

Because of this, starting in primary school and moving from there to secondary school, sixth form and university, I’ve learned a lot about taking effective notes as a student.

Some of my work mentions this studying status and as a result, a question I get asked very often is ‘How do you take notes as a student’?

Unfortunately, it’s not a question that I like to hear, because I believe that it varies so much between person, subject and desired outcome.

This article is an endeavour to tackle this tricky question though, and I hope that come away from it with a point or two that can help you in your studying.

I didn’t start off taking suitable notes as a student. The marketing of all the shiny tools won out and I spent most of my time copying my notes into Notion pages rather than doing work to convert it to knowledge.