From the course: Enhance Your Productivity with Effective Note-Taking

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Decode your notes

Decode your notes

From the course: Enhance Your Productivity with Effective Note-Taking

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Decode your notes

- Once you have really great notes, sometimes you'll need to return to them for a refresher. Giving yourself a shortcut to decode these notes is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's what I mean. Take a few minutes after the meeting to go over the notes and leave a few comments of what you might need to revisit later. Right now, it's fresh in your mind and future you will be so glad that you did this. You can color code the points that you think that you'll need for another project or purpose. Plus, there's always using symbols to make scanning these notes easier in the future. The producer of this very course, Samantha, has a brilliant way to do this. When she was writing her dissertation, she identified elements she wanted to include in her notes with a special swirl symbol. That way, whenever she looked at her notes in the future, she knew exactly where to find that information. Pretty great, right? But wait, she had…

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