Summary: 1. Keep it all in one place. 2. Paper vs. Digital. Choose it depending on the class. 3. Space it out so that you can annotate them later. 4. Spiral notebooks and use a highlighter after. 5. Write down notes from the textbook and then annotate with what the professor says that is important. 6. Colour code to show your understanding. 7. Don't stress about your notes if they are not pretty. 8. Print out power points instead of writing down everything. 9. Rewrite your notes if you see a point and if you don't understand. 10. Star certain things that you need to go over and if you don't understand. 11. Write down things that are important. 12. Don't have pretty notes if they are not efficient. 13. Highlight significant things like formulas. 14. Engage with your notes. 15. Adjust to different classes.
I supposed they are not exactly the same, as laziness means you’re not willing to do work whereas unmotivated can be seen as you don’t have the enthusiasm for what you’re doing! But hey! That’s just my perspective 🤷♀️
"Lets be honest, people love seeing aesthetic notes that are all pretty and colorful, but lets be honest, we don't have time for that" me: FINALLY a youtuber that gets it
“I pretty much understood that I had no fricken idea what any of this was. So I just highlighted it to make it look pretty.” That line just made my day.
1. Keep notes in one spot (notebook or binder or digital for different classes) 2. Make notes more spaced out so that you can add more in later. 3. Spiral notebooks are easy to keep together 4. Write down notes from the textbook before class then annotate during class 5. Color code: green for things you understand, yellow for not sure and pink for definitely need more info 6. Don't stress about your notes if they are not pretty. The purpose is to learn the materials 7. Mix and match handwritten and powerpoint notes 8. Rewrite your notes if needed. Prioritize practicing over notes for certain classes 9. Vocab - square, formula - star, copy the textbook formatting, add variety to the notes (e.g. arrow). Use one color pen. Then later go back to review twice first, and highlight in the last revision.
Okay your eyes are so pretty! My note taking process is: 1. Read and take notes on the textbook before class, leaving a small column on the right side of the page where I can add lecture notes. If I have a question or need to insert a diagram, I'll make a little note in a cloud like/squiggly box so it stands out and I wont overlook it or forget about it later. 2. Use the blank column to add lecture notes. 3. Review, highlighting key terms. 4. Once I feel like I understand fairly well, I make a rough outline of my notes with main topics and vocab words. Then I use this outline to try to rewrite my notes without looking at my original notes. It becomes super obvious where my knowledge is lacking. 5. Review notes, make flashcards, study guides, etc. for the parts I struggled with on part 4.
Cornell notebooks (on amazon) use your exact format.. just wanted to tell you in case it would be helpful to you to have a notebook thats preset to take notes like that 😂😂
Peace, Love, Happiness, and Plants okay I’ve never heard of rewriting notes from memory to see what you’re missing, but that’s so genius!! Thank you for commenting
i rewrite my notes cause i write almost everything down in lecture because it helps me and then i go through and take out what wasn’t necessary. i really find that i remember everything better when i rewrite them
i'm starting college (freshman!) this year and i am FREAKING out about how i am supposed to take notes. i came across your video a while back and now that i am watching it you have literally SAVED my life. i wish i would have seen this when i started taking harder classes in high school!! you have helped me SOOOO much, i legit took your studying advice to heart lol, thank you so much!
I read the textbook and take pretty notes for my biology class, which takes up a lot of time. So, recently I just started to try and fill in the lecture notes before class based on the textbook...yup, did not help me at all. I get nothing out of my professor's lectures. I ended up getting a 68% on the quiz after trying that method and it did not help. I'm going back to reading the textbook and taking notes on that. My point is, do not feel pressured to not read the textbook and take notes on it just because no one in the class is reading the textbook. If the textbook helps you more than the actual professor, do that.
When I was in High School the text books always helped me more, I would get yelled at though by the teachers 🙄 oh well, I had the best grades in the class
It makes a difference to know what works for you, as an individual. There are some 'proven' ways that work, such as information recall and spaced recall. But if you are getting great results, there's no reason to alter what you've got
everyone has their own study techniques, don't stress yourself about what others opinions on your study method. if it useful for you and help you learning efficiently, just do that
4.0 student as well great noting tips used them all at one point or another I’ve found what works for me. On top of note taking if you’re someone like me I sometimes can’t focus in class maybe a bad night sleep etc or any early morning class record the lecture. I’ll write down notes that I may have missed or a sentence I didn’t catch from professor. Helped me immensely in my undergrad.
this is realistic bcs this is how i do my note taking too. it's more faster, easier, convenient. it's not aesthetic, not pretty but save lots of time and helps alot when i wanted to do revision bfr exams
Love how honest and realistic you are! I’m a senior in high school but this is my second year of college classes and I’m trying to boost my gpa so this is really helpful! Thank youu😇
Okay so I’m a student who doesn’t have the opportunity to get a lot of tools to make my notes look amazing and cute, and my hand writing is ugly, but I found a method idk if anyone else considered 1. I’ll take notes normally. I listen and read, understand and then write the notes in my own words. Doesn’t matter if I make a few ugly mistakes 2. When I go home I open canva on my laptop, get a template where I can rewrite my notes on and then save it as a pdf file. At school I used my notebook to study cause that’s when I’m most focused But then at home I easily get distracted, so that’s when I use the pdf versions since it’s less boring compared to my notebook. And while studying just listen to music, or watch this lovely lady here cause watching her videos motivate me 🔥
I'm taking online classes and am guilty of the 'doing unneeded things to feel better'. I recently decided to work on studying effectively instead of just re-reading some stuff and I instantly started understanding things better. A big problem people have is looking at something that's hard and not trying to learn it further. If I don't understand something in math, I too want to throw it against the wall, but it's so much more rewarding to explain it to yourself by searching it up, using apps & asking others in the class. Don't just write the notes, understand what you're writing. Don't fully understand? Go deeper into it on another page. If you have the luxury of having an iPad Pro: Use Goodnotes. Let's you write notes, move around text and add pages in between if you need to understand something better. Doing the deepdive first is saving so much time compared to looking at the same problem and re-writing the same notes from the book that you didn't understand. What a realtalk! Also, I can't stop looking at your nails. They are like the perfect length with the perfect color!
This is the absolutely best video regarding note taking. I hadn't heard about most of the tips you talked about, and I'll definitely try to apply all of them this semester. Thank you!!
The way I learned how to write notes in high school was the Cornell way. I still have used this method throughout college and have found that it’s the only way I can retain information. This method focuses on main ideas and condensing phrases and sentences. Color coding helps with important and remembering them! I tried writing notes from the text the day before like You mentioned but I never felt like it helped lol.
I don’t have kids yet, but I hope this video will still exist when I do lol Some of my best exam scores were made when I studied like this. However, the key thing is being able to ADAPT; adapt to the subject at hand and the professor’s teaching style, then incorporating that into your preferred learning method. The idea of using plain black/blue ink as the foundation of your notes, then building on it with color as you review and understand more of it is in a way mirroring your own brain’s grasp on a new topic. Thank you for sharing!
This was so, so helpful. It's good to see someone who really cares about notes being practical and useful, rather than all these beauty study gurus who make their notes beautiful but almost useless to study from.
Thanks so much for this! It's nice to see something more realistic. From a visual learner though, something aesthetically pleasing or more colorful can aid in my memory. But when people focus solely on aesthetics, it drives me nuts because 1.not everyone has the time 2.not everyone is a visual learner 3.even visual learners require more than just aesthetically pleasing notes 4.it is simply lacking, in summary. Super helpful, thank you!!
i love the point you made about figuring out what your classes expect of you and adjusting accordingly. far too often people will try to push a one size fits all note taking approach when that simply isnt the case.
I love that you’re so genuine. Thanks for the tips!! I’m in my third year of college and am starting to take more difficult classes so this will definitely help me up my note taking game.
Depending on the math class, taking the notes on graph paper helps me space things out easily and be able to graph problems. This is especially useful for when you're doing functions and stuff like that
Thanks so much for this video! I am 40 and starting a degree online. I've been out of school for 20yrs and things have changed considerably since then lol. I started making "pretty" notes and found I spent so much time doing that, I was not grasping the information. Love love love your real deal rundown on this. I will definitely be doing things this way moving forward.
I agree with everything u said. Especially that the process of taking notes is different for every class. Like science I take notes from the textbook in black pen. Then when my teacher is going over the chapter, I write what I missed and charts they draw on the board in pencil or a colored pen. I also highlight the main things the teacher talks about.
I looooove these college hacks your doing! I made a calendar like you did during college with due dates, when I can study, and other things I have to do! Can you do a video on what you majored in?
@@xsamsungg5735 fuck me, that's literally the chapter I'm going over right know for my tomorrow's midterm lmao So, yeah you could say she probably majored in accounting. I'd guess that's from the intermediate accounting course, which not everyone has to take unless you're majoring in accounting or something pretty similar
I know it's been almost a year since you released this but I just wanted to say: thank you so much for this advice! I'm so glad you weren't being generic and saying "re-write your notes by hand" etc. things that everyone says in study-type videos. I'm definitely gonna implement these in school :)
thanks for mentioning the highlighting method. I have bad handwriting and always thought if I “cleaned up” my notes a bit, that when they’re prettier, it will be easier for me. that’s why my main goal was to rewrite all the notes I put down but in color and with boxes and such... however, I have a medical condition that affects my joints and that’s not realistic. that would drain me very much. still wish my handwriting was neater, but I will likely have a note taker in college as an accommodation and so hopefully it will be easier for me to organize everything.
I used to be OBSESSED with pretty note taking, and I know it’s a waste of time but I still do it. I really needed someone to tell me this. Thank you so much!!!!
Great video! I felt relieved afterwards especially when you said the note-taking method depends on the class. I feel the same. Also the paper vs digital is a great point to note. Thanks a lot!
My note takin processs is at the begenning of th chapter go in the text book and for every paragraph or page summarize it In the middle of the unit I would keep studying the notes and add things the teachers said At the end of the chapter I would take it out, do the practice problems and mini tests in the text book and underline important stuff
I'm glad you mentioned keeping notes in one place whether it's digital or paper! I am more of a digital note taker unless the class requires math of course.
My method I actually love doing is: My class lecture notes. Doesn’t matter if they’re messy as long as I understand what’s going on. My re written notes. I rewrite to go over the material and make the information much more legible. When I go over the notes is when I start making flash cards. Specific questions etc. This is what works for me personally! Everything she says in here is so right about important information only!
I’m going into my third year of college and I’m so freaking thankful for coming across your video and your channel!!! You truly gave me honest advice and I loved your eye contact! ❤️
I love your no bs approach to taking notes! lol definitely put things into perspective for me. I realized I waste a lot of time trying to structure my notes a certain way when it really doesn’t matter. Mix and match girrrrl
Thank you! Girl.. you are so right.. trying to make notes pretty is extra stress for me. your tips I know will help me. I’m currently 3.5 I need that 4.0. Subscribed 😁
I do like your highlighting with green, yellow, or red highlighters based on the level of understanding. Although I was taught to not highlight, I believe my teacher was mostly referring to highlighting textbooks. However, she might have referred to notes, as well. I also like that you space out your notes to leave room for extra notes. Although I was also taught to space, it was not enough space to add notes that a professor might suggest.
Thanks a ton for your input, I'm heading back to college after being out 10 years and getting geared up as best as possible and this helped get me back on track to document lectures as efficiently as possible.
Tip: When my teachers would teach with a presentation such as powerpoints, I will usually take a picture of slides that I would think are important (if the teachers are nice enough) and write the notes at home. I don’t necessarily decorate them but this method would allow me to understand the course at school and further help me understand them and review them at home. This also helps if u don’t write as fast like me but u still want to get the notes right :)
The thing about making cute notes or "spacing them out" is usually, the people that do make their notes in all types of elaborate ways, get interested for about 30 mins, complete the notes, and then never study them. Believe me, your shooting yourself on the foot by only taking notes and revising them later, one of the most important life skills aside from "cOlOr CoDiNg" your notes is being able to retain information during a lecture. Unless what your doing is math or your barely breaking into the vocabulary of a subject, you won't really need to use notes all that often, don't follow the hype of everyone with a macbook taking insane notes but not ever digesting a syllable of what the proff actually said.
I began my first semester of university, and I can say I am satisfied using an iPad rather than a laptop for my notes. My process is once the diapositives are posted, I download it and annotate important points in the PowerPoint. When I can, usually after class or the day after I summarize and write the majority down into my notebook in GoodNotes. :)(:
I have a terrible hand writing and I'm terribly slow so I always use word: everything is clear, clean, organized and simple. In that way I don't even need the book in certain subject, just my notes and I don't waste money in useless textbooks 🎉
I think that taking time to make your notes neat and some what pretty makes the whole study process more fun. For me it makes me want to to study and look forward to studying
I graduated this year and your college calendar hack was the best thing that happened to me. I have a 3.8 and i wish you had made this video a year early, i could have cracked those 4.0s lmao. Love you 💕
For me personally my notes rn look like hers in the video but *for me* if my notes are pretty and aesthetically pleasing, then it makes me wanna read study bc it’s more appealing. If my notes are plain and is a bunch of words with no colour, then it makes it seem like a chore to read. This is why I feel as though taking nice + neat notes over just neat notes helps me
You are so sweet you remind me of my daughter funny smart cute. Your parents must be so proud of you accomplishments. i am following your channel because I a, a 46 years old woman done rising my kids as a single mother and finally with time to go to college to study something i really like. MRI college program. I have to keep with the new taking note methods and you are perfect. ! Wishing you lots of success sweetheart !!!
Finally some real and practical advice that doesn't involve extreme calligraphy skills and a room full of colorful stationery... Also your method is already similar to mine, but upgraded! Thanks!
This is so helpful! I really needed to look at this, I’m in a early college program. Getting out of the high school mindset helps so much, I am very grateful for this video!! Thank youuu
Excellent tips! Thank you for getting to the point quickly, unlike hundreds of study videos I've noticed online. These tips are going to be great for my child in high school. She will take the info from you way better than I could have ever said it without sounding like I'm lecturing. Liked and subscribed, thank you!!!
Thank you for being down to earth and to the point. A lot of how to take notes are the same cliche tips but this has a lot of useful information I will be using this school year
The way her confidence pops off her; her personality is strong AF. I'll subscribe off that. I thought she was from Jersey lol😂 Wishing you many blessings and success.
I remember my school asked for composition notebooks, and after the first week or so we figured out that comp. books are horrible for me because i would cramp my notes. Now I use either a binder or a spiral, saved my frickin life.
I feel that the best way for me to remember and make notes is to read a specific passage from textbook/PowerPoint/ already made notes, I would first read twice, then I would close my textbook and write from memory, and then I’d check the passage again to see what I missed. I would do this over and over again until I master that topic/chapter. Basically, read twice and make sure you’re focused, and write what you remember without looking at the notes, then check the notes and see what you missed and when you keep repeating this and you remember all of it, make questions from what you read. Then test yourself with the questions. Repeat this using spaced repetition ask yourself the questions the next day, after 4 days, after 7 days etc.
This is literally the only video I was looking for. I wanted to have those pretty pretty notes but can't really seem to get more efficient from it and rather spend more useless time from trying to do it. Damn really spoke what I needed to hear. Thank you so much Didn't regret entering this channel 💜 love ya😊
What she said about having pretty notes is so true, I would study my own way just reading over all my "messy" notes, but saw everyone with their "pretty" notes. I wanted to have reviews and notes like theirs. I would have 98% or 91% on all my tests with my regular notes, but the tests that I tried to make my notes look good and pretty I only got a 84%. Trust me do what helps you study.
Thanks for the video. I am starting back to school pursuing an online degree and wasn't good at college the first time I went. I am the person who wants to have very nice looking notes but it is very time consuming. I really appreciated the tip about the different colored highlighter for things that are understood and things that are not. Once again thanks for taking the time to help me out.
If your teacher posts PowerPoints you can also export them to a word document and okay with the format a little bit if you don't want to print the PowerPoint Go to File > export > create handout > outline only Hope this helps!
Thank you for actually giving good, useful advice. I've seen so many videos on note taking and yours is by far one of the best I'vd watched. Your tips are so real and will actually help us
about the copying notes from your book to ur laptop! i have online classes and for my apush class, my teacher discusses everything and i messily scribble it down. i copy them back into my laptop after each class in order to organize them and highlight important things. it helps for some people!!
I love your tips and thank you so much. I have to say that everyone has their own ways and methods on taking notes. I agree that people just need to keep exploring till they find what suits best for themselves on notes taking and studying. ✨✨😊
Finally, someone who doesn't have these crazy colorful notes! Hallelujah!!! Like every youtube videos on I see on notes are like supplies and all that and not how to actually take notes. It has all these colors that have no meaning.
I'm going back to college after taking two years off so this is so helpful considering that I was the worst at taking notes so thanks so much for this!
So how do you get the right notes from a textbook. The text book is all you have, no power points or anything. It’s an anatomy surgical book and it’s very overwhelming!
I suggest reading over once and writing down questions. Then read over again and write a group of other questions. Now take notes of what you didn’t understand. And that’s it! Review every couple of weeks! And go over anything you still don’t understand. Finally a couple weeks before exam write a summary maybe. Anyways you know you understand the topic when you can teach it fully or explain to another student who doesn’t understand! Hope that helps ❤️
I’m not in college but this really inspired me to do some APUSH notes I haven’t done these tricks yet but I can tell they’re going to help sooo much so THANK YOU!!!
Girl my apush teacher this year blessed us with a binder for key terms to highlight in your notes after he gives a lecture. I got a 99% on my first test.
Brae my teacher does something like that too but I just like doing notes in general but that’s so good!!! I got a 75 on my summer assignment test 🥵 hopefully my notes will give me an A on the next one
If your teacher hands you the PowerPoint: write/type on the PowerPoint slides! I don't know but this is such a simple but revolutionary way I shrunk down time during lectures, bcz you only have to write down the extra stuff that is important but not the essentials Edit: result --> this will result in more of your attention being on the lecture itself instead of writing notes
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"people escape studying by doing a lot of unnecessary tasks just to feel good" that's so me
@wdym? ... watching this video... when you are suppose to be studying... lol
Lol so me I used to write “ aesthetically pleasing” notes and then put them away😂😂
That’s what I’m doing rn😌
Thats me watching this video🥴
Whew I just saw this comment and realised that's what I'm doing
Summary:
1. Keep it all in one place.
2. Paper vs. Digital. Choose it depending on the class.
3. Space it out so that you can annotate them later.
4. Spiral notebooks and use a highlighter after.
5. Write down notes from the textbook and then annotate with what the professor says that is important.
6. Colour code to show your understanding.
7. Don't stress about your notes if they are not pretty.
8. Print out power points instead of writing down everything.
9. Rewrite your notes if you see a point and if you don't understand.
10. Star certain things that you need to go over and if you don't understand.
11. Write down things that are important.
12. Don't have pretty notes if they are not efficient.
13. Highlight significant things like formulas.
14. Engage with your notes.
15. Adjust to different classes.
thx so much
nice already practicing good notetaking
Notes of a note taking video
thx ian even watch the vid
Thank you! you saved me 13 minutes! :)
We're not really lazy we're just unmotivated.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Which kind of means lazy.
Same thing
I supposed they are not exactly the same, as laziness means you’re not willing to do work whereas unmotivated can be seen as you don’t have the enthusiasm for what you’re doing! But hey! That’s just my perspective 🤷♀️
And lazy..
"Lets be honest, people love seeing aesthetic notes that are all pretty and colorful, but lets be honest, we don't have time for that"
me: FINALLY a youtuber that gets it
YES
Before she even finished that statement I said to myself "Ain't nobody got time for that sheit" Lmao! I definitely agree 100%.
True
“I pretty much understood that I had no fricken idea what any of this was. So I just highlighted it to make it look pretty.” That line just made my day.
This is too true tho😭
1. Keep notes in one spot (notebook or binder or digital for different classes)
2. Make notes more spaced out so that you can add more in later.
3. Spiral notebooks are easy to keep together
4. Write down notes from the textbook before class then annotate during class
5. Color code: green for things you understand, yellow for not sure and pink for definitely need more info
6. Don't stress about your notes if they are not pretty. The purpose is to learn the materials
7. Mix and match handwritten and powerpoint notes
8. Rewrite your notes if needed. Prioritize practicing over notes for certain classes
9. Vocab - square, formula - star, copy the textbook formatting, add variety to the notes (e.g. arrow). Use one color pen. Then later go back to review twice first, and highlight in the last revision.
The color coding is extremely helpful thanks!
Okay your eyes are so pretty! My note taking process is:
1. Read and take notes on the textbook before class, leaving a small column on the right side of the page where I can add lecture notes. If I have a question or need to insert a diagram, I'll make a little note in a cloud like/squiggly box so it stands out and I wont overlook it or forget about it later.
2. Use the blank column to add lecture notes.
3. Review, highlighting key terms.
4. Once I feel like I understand fairly well, I make a rough outline of my notes with main topics and vocab words. Then I use this outline to try to rewrite my notes without looking at my original notes. It becomes super obvious where my knowledge is lacking.
5. Review notes, make flashcards, study guides, etc. for the parts I struggled with on part 4.
Thank you for sharing!
Cornell notebooks (on amazon) use your exact format.. just wanted to tell you in case it would be helpful to you to have a notebook thats preset to take notes like that 😂😂
@@katrinastump162 that would be super helpful! Thank you!
Peace, Love, Happiness, and Plants okay I’ve never heard of rewriting notes from memory to see what you’re missing, but that’s so genius!! Thank you for commenting
I have less than a month to write my first semester exams...need help on the best method to get a 5.0
i rewrite my notes cause i write almost everything down in lecture because it helps me and then i go through and take out what wasn’t necessary. i really find that i remember everything better when i rewrite them
Every time you said “that’s alright, that’s Totally Okay.” It Fr calmed me down sm
this advice was so real and the most accurate! i'm starting college for the first time in a week and I definitely feel better after hearing your tips!
i'm starting college (freshman!) this year and i am FREAKING out about how i am supposed to take notes. i came across your video a while back and now that i am watching it you have literally SAVED my life. i wish i would have seen this when i started taking harder classes in high school!! you have helped me SOOOO much, i legit took your studying advice to heart lol, thank you so much!
"people escape studying by doing a lot of unnecessary tasks just to feel good"
me:- :o that's so relatable!!!
I read the textbook and take pretty notes for my biology class, which takes up a lot of time. So, recently I just started to try and fill in the lecture notes before class based on the textbook...yup, did not help me at all. I get nothing out of my professor's lectures. I ended up getting a 68% on the quiz after trying that method and it did not help. I'm going back to reading the textbook and taking notes on that. My point is, do not feel pressured to not read the textbook and take notes on it just because no one in the class is reading the textbook. If the textbook helps you more than the actual professor, do that.
When I was in High School the text books always helped me more, I would get yelled at though by the teachers 🙄 oh well, I had the best grades in the class
@@erinlayke period
It makes a difference to know what works for you, as an individual. There are some 'proven' ways that work, such as information recall and spaced recall. But if you are getting great results, there's no reason to alter what you've got
everyone has their own study techniques, don't stress yourself about what others opinions on your study method. if it useful for you and help you learning efficiently, just do that
@@erinlayke wait i don't understand.... the teachers yelled at you? for reading the textbook?
4.0 student as well great noting tips used them all at one point or another I’ve found what works for me. On top of note taking if you’re someone like me I sometimes can’t focus in class maybe a bad night sleep etc or any early morning class record the lecture. I’ll write down notes that I may have missed or a sentence I didn’t catch from professor. Helped me immensely in my undergrad.
I think I’ve spent more time watching these note taking videos than actually taking notes
Trueeee, I'm stressing about going to year 12 next year but I'm praying these videos help out
this is realistic bcs this is how i do my note taking too. it's more faster, easier, convenient. it's not aesthetic, not pretty but save lots of time and helps alot when i wanted to do revision bfr exams
Love how honest and realistic you are! I’m a senior in high school but this is my second year of college classes and I’m trying to boost my gpa so this is really helpful! Thank youu😇
Okay so I’m a student who doesn’t have the opportunity to get a lot of tools to make my notes look amazing and cute, and my hand writing is ugly, but I found a method idk if anyone else considered
1. I’ll take notes normally. I listen and read, understand and then write the notes in my own words. Doesn’t matter if I make a few ugly mistakes
2. When I go home I open canva on my laptop, get a template where I can rewrite my notes on and then save it as a pdf file.
At school I used my notebook to study cause that’s when I’m most focused
But then at home I easily get distracted, so that’s when I use the pdf versions since it’s less boring compared to my notebook.
And while studying just listen to music, or watch this lovely lady here cause watching her videos motivate me 🔥
I'm taking online classes and am guilty of the 'doing unneeded things to feel better'. I recently decided to work on studying effectively instead of just re-reading some stuff and I instantly started understanding things better. A big problem people have is looking at something that's hard and not trying to learn it further.
If I don't understand something in math, I too want to throw it against the wall, but it's so much more rewarding to explain it to yourself by searching it up, using apps & asking others in the class.
Don't just write the notes, understand what you're writing. Don't fully understand? Go deeper into it on another page. If you have the luxury of having an iPad Pro: Use Goodnotes. Let's you write notes, move around text and add pages in between if you need to understand something better.
Doing the deepdive first is saving so much time compared to looking at the same problem and re-writing the same notes from the book that you didn't understand.
What a realtalk!
Also, I can't stop looking at your nails. They are like the perfect length with the perfect color!
This is the absolutely best video regarding note taking. I hadn't heard about most of the tips you talked about, and I'll definitely try to apply all of them this semester. Thank you!!
😮 I’m shook, this makeup look. Your hair 💕🥰
its so pretty. she rocked the look!!!
Lol your focus...
Crystal Rosé ...what
The way I learned how to write notes in high school was the Cornell way. I still have used this method throughout college and have found that it’s the only way I can retain information. This method focuses on main ideas and condensing phrases and sentences. Color coding helps with important and remembering them! I tried writing notes from the text the day before like You mentioned but I never felt like it helped lol.
I don’t have kids yet, but I hope this video will still exist when I do lol
Some of my best exam scores were made when I studied like this. However, the key thing is being able to ADAPT; adapt to the subject at hand and the professor’s teaching style, then incorporating that into your preferred learning method.
The idea of using plain black/blue ink as the foundation of your notes, then building on it with color as you review and understand more of it is in a way mirroring your own brain’s grasp on a new topic.
Thank you for sharing!
This was so, so helpful. It's good to see someone who really cares about notes being practical and useful, rather than all these beauty study gurus who make their notes beautiful but almost useless to study from.
Thanks so much for this!
It's nice to see something more realistic.
From a visual learner though, something aesthetically pleasing or more colorful can aid in my memory.
But when people focus solely on aesthetics, it drives me nuts because 1.not everyone has the time 2.not everyone is a visual learner 3.even visual learners require more than just aesthetically pleasing notes 4.it is simply lacking, in summary.
Super helpful, thank you!!
i love the point you made about figuring out what your classes expect of you and adjusting accordingly. far too often people will try to push a one size fits all note taking approach when that simply isnt the case.
this feels like my older sibling calling me out for my pretty note taking style and i really needed it, thank you 🥺♥️
I love that you’re so genuine. Thanks for the tips!! I’m in my third year of college and am starting to take more difficult classes so this will definitely help me up my note taking game.
Depending on the math class, taking the notes on graph paper helps me space things out easily and be able to graph problems. This is especially useful for when you're doing functions and stuff like that
Thanks so much for this video! I am 40 and starting a degree online. I've been out of school for 20yrs and things have changed considerably since then lol. I started making "pretty" notes and found I spent so much time doing that, I was not grasping the information. Love love love your real deal rundown on this. I will definitely be doing things this way moving forward.
I agree with everything u said. Especially that the process of taking notes is different for every class. Like science I take notes from the textbook in black pen. Then when my teacher is going over the chapter, I write what I missed and charts they draw on the board in pencil or a colored pen. I also highlight the main things the teacher talks about.
Omg I am NOT surprised that you were a 4.0 college student😂 that is extremely impressive!
I looooove these college hacks your doing! I made a calendar like you did during college with due dates, when I can study, and other things I have to do! Can you do a video on what you majored in?
Erica Zavala I did the same thing
From her notes at 10:05 it looks like accounting
@@xsamsungg5735 fuck me, that's literally the chapter I'm going over right know for my tomorrow's midterm lmao
So, yeah you could say she probably majored in accounting. I'd guess that's from the intermediate accounting course, which not everyone has to take unless you're majoring in accounting or something pretty similar
I know it's been almost a year since you released this but I just wanted to say: thank you so much for this advice! I'm so glad you weren't being generic and saying "re-write your notes by hand" etc. things that everyone says in study-type videos. I'm definitely gonna implement these in school :)
thanks for mentioning the highlighting method. I have bad handwriting and always thought if I “cleaned up” my notes a bit, that when they’re prettier, it will be easier for me. that’s why my main goal was to rewrite all the notes I put down but in color and with boxes and such... however, I have a medical condition that affects my joints and that’s not realistic. that would drain me very much. still wish my handwriting was neater, but I will likely have a note taker in college as an accommodation and so hopefully it will be easier for me to organize everything.
Do more of your College hacks please! It has helped me a hundredfold ❤️
I used to be OBSESSED with pretty note taking, and I know it’s a waste of time but I still do it. I really needed someone to tell me this. Thank you so much!!!!
Great video! I felt relieved afterwards especially when you said the note-taking method depends on the class. I feel the same. Also the paper vs digital is a great point to note. Thanks a lot!
My note takin processs is
at the begenning of th chapter go in the text book and for every paragraph or page summarize it
In the middle of the unit I would keep studying the notes and add things the teachers said
At the end of the chapter I would take it out, do the practice problems and mini tests in the text book and underline important stuff
I'm glad you mentioned keeping notes in one place whether it's digital or paper! I am more of a digital note taker unless the class requires math of course.
My method I actually love doing is:
My class lecture notes. Doesn’t matter if they’re messy as long as I understand what’s going on.
My re written notes. I rewrite to go over the material and make the information much more legible.
When I go over the notes is when I start making flash cards. Specific questions etc.
This is what works for me personally!
Everything she says in here is so right about important information only!
I’m going into my third year of college and I’m so freaking thankful for coming across your video and your channel!!! You truly gave me honest advice and I loved your eye contact! ❤️
Active learning is MUCH more efficient than re-reading and rewriting notes, for instance, things like a mindmap. I can relate to you soo much!!
The highlighter tip for understanding things helped me so much thx sm I got the highest score in my grade thanks to this ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
this is probably the best note taking video i've watched
You’re a life saver with these college tips! Keep em coming♥️
I love your no bs approach to taking notes! lol definitely put things into perspective for me. I realized I waste a lot of time trying to structure my notes a certain way when it really doesn’t matter. Mix and match girrrrl
The multi-colored thing hurts my head. It's so hard for me to concentrate with that much color. Thank you for keeping it real!
Thank you! Girl.. you are so right.. trying to make notes pretty is extra stress for me. your tips I know will help me. I’m currently 3.5 I need that 4.0. Subscribed 😁
I do like your highlighting with green, yellow, or red highlighters based on the level of understanding. Although I was taught to not highlight, I believe my teacher was mostly referring to highlighting textbooks. However, she might have referred to notes, as well. I also like that you space out your notes to leave room for extra notes. Although I was also taught to space, it was not enough space to add notes that a professor might suggest.
Best advice ever given for notes. It's not BS this video is truly valuable
Thanks a ton for your input, I'm heading back to college after being out 10 years and getting geared up as best as possible and this helped get me back on track to document lectures as efficiently as possible.
Tip: When my teachers would teach with a presentation such as powerpoints, I will usually take a picture of slides that I would think are important (if the teachers are nice enough) and write the notes at home. I don’t necessarily decorate them but this method would allow me to understand the course at school and further help me understand them and review them at home. This also helps if u don’t write as fast like me but u still want to get the notes right :)
The thing about making cute notes or "spacing them out" is usually, the people that do make their notes in all types of elaborate ways, get interested for about 30 mins, complete the notes, and then never study them. Believe me, your shooting yourself on the foot by only taking notes and revising them later, one of the most important life skills aside from "cOlOr CoDiNg" your notes is being able to retain information during a lecture. Unless what your doing is math or your barely breaking into the vocabulary of a subject, you won't really need to use notes all that often, don't follow the hype of everyone with a macbook taking insane notes but not ever digesting a syllable of what the proff actually said.
I began my first semester of university, and I can say I am satisfied using an iPad rather than a laptop for my notes. My process is once the diapositives are posted, I download it and annotate important points in the PowerPoint. When I can, usually after class or the day after I summarize and write the majority down into my notebook in GoodNotes. :)(:
I have a terrible hand writing and I'm terribly slow so I always use word: everything is clear, clean, organized and simple. In that way I don't even need the book in certain subject, just my notes and I don't waste money in useless textbooks 🎉
I love how down to earth you are thanks so much for this I love it
i feel like you would be a wonderful teacher.
I think that taking time to make your notes neat and some what pretty makes the whole study process more fun. For me it makes me want to to study and look forward to studying
I graduated this year and your college calendar hack was the best thing that happened to me. I have a 3.8 and i wish you had made this video a year early, i could have cracked those 4.0s lmao. Love you 💕
For me personally my notes rn look like hers in the video but *for me* if my notes are pretty and aesthetically pleasing, then it makes me wanna read study bc it’s more appealing. If my notes are plain and is a bunch of words with no colour, then it makes it seem like a chore to read. This is why I feel as though taking nice + neat notes over just neat notes helps me
You are so sweet you remind me of my daughter funny smart cute. Your parents must be so proud of you accomplishments. i am following your channel because I a, a 46 years old woman done rising my kids as a single mother and finally with time to go to college to study something i really like. MRI college program. I have to keep with the new taking note methods and you are perfect. ! Wishing you lots of success sweetheart !!!
I’ve watched so many note taking videos and this was the best one I’ve seen!
Finally some real and practical advice that doesn't involve extreme calligraphy skills and a room full of colorful stationery... Also your method is already similar to mine, but upgraded! Thanks!
This is so helpful! I really needed to look at this, I’m in a early college program. Getting out of the high school mindset helps so much, I am very grateful for this video!! Thank youuu
Excellent tips! Thank you for getting to the point quickly, unlike hundreds of study videos I've noticed online. These tips are going to be great for my child in high school. She will take the info from you way better than I could have ever said it without sounding like I'm lecturing. Liked and subscribed, thank you!!!
FINALLY a guide on how to make effective notes and not just making them pretty. THANK YOU ❤️
Thank you for being down to earth and to the point. A lot of how to take notes are the same cliche tips but this has a lot of useful information I will be using this school year
The way her confidence pops off her; her personality is strong AF. I'll subscribe off that. I thought she was from Jersey lol😂 Wishing you many blessings and success.
I remember my school asked for composition notebooks, and after the first week or so we figured out that comp. books are horrible for me because i would cramp my notes. Now I use either a binder or a spiral, saved my frickin life.
I feel that the best way for me to remember and make notes is to read a specific passage from textbook/PowerPoint/ already made notes, I would first read twice, then I would close my textbook and write from memory, and then I’d check the passage again to see what I missed. I would do this over and over again until I master that topic/chapter. Basically, read twice and make sure you’re focused, and write what you remember without looking at the notes, then check the notes and see what you missed and when you keep repeating this and you remember all of it, make questions from what you read. Then test yourself with the questions. Repeat this using spaced repetition ask yourself the questions the next day, after 4 days, after 7 days etc.
You sound like Whitneyy Simmons def need advice from a 4.0 student congrats I’m barley trying to get into nursing school taking my gen ed right now
Jessica Deshields same! Good luck 👍
This is literally the only video I was looking for. I wanted to have those pretty pretty notes but can't really seem to get more efficient from it and rather spend more useless time from trying to do it. Damn really spoke what I needed to hear. Thank you so much
Didn't regret entering this channel 💜 love ya😊
What she said about having pretty notes is so true, I would study my own way just reading over all my "messy" notes, but saw everyone with their "pretty" notes. I wanted to have reviews and notes like theirs. I would have 98% or 91% on all my tests with my regular notes, but the tests that I tried to make my notes look good and pretty I only got a 84%. Trust me do what helps you study.
Thanks for the video. I am starting back to school pursuing an online degree and wasn't good at college the first time I went. I am the person who wants to have very nice looking notes but it is very time consuming. I really appreciated the tip about the different colored highlighter for things that are understood and things that are not. Once again thanks for taking the time to help me out.
okay wait!!!! i’m definitely gonna start taking notes from the textbook the night before a lecture now!!
If your teacher posts PowerPoints you can also export them to a word document and okay with the format a little bit if you don't want to print the PowerPoint
Go to
File > export > create handout > outline only
Hope this helps!
Thank you for actually giving good, useful advice. I've seen so many videos on note taking and yours is by far one of the best I'vd watched. Your tips are so real and will actually help us
about the copying notes from your book to ur laptop! i have online classes and for my apush class, my teacher discusses everything and i messily scribble it down. i copy them back into my laptop after each class in order to organize them and highlight important things. it helps for some people!!
why do i feel like my mom has caught me writing notes and she's now reprimanding me for doing that
You loook stunning
I'm not really used to study, but I'm happy that now that I'm starting e found this video because it's basically what I started doing!!
Great video Olena!!💕 I’m a big fan, keep up the good work!!💗🔥
I love your tips and thank you so much. I have to say that everyone has their own ways and methods on taking notes. I agree that people just need to keep exploring till they find what suits best for themselves on notes taking and studying. ✨✨😊
I'm not in college myself, but your videos have helped me so much. Thank you!
i feel like this is the most realistic note taking video there is, ty
Finally, someone who doesn't have these crazy colorful notes! Hallelujah!!! Like every youtube videos on I see on notes are like supplies and all that and not how to actually take notes. It has all these colors that have no meaning.
Motivation < Discipline
Not everyday is our day. just do it! 😊
Loving these types of videos, making me so motivated for the new semester! Thank you ❤️❤️
I'm going back to college after taking two years off so this is so helpful considering that I was the worst at taking notes so thanks so much for this!
So how do you get the right notes from a textbook. The text book is all you have, no power points or anything.
It’s an anatomy surgical book and it’s very overwhelming!
I suggest reading over once and writing down questions. Then read over again and write a group of other questions. Now take notes of what you didn’t understand. And that’s it! Review every couple of weeks! And go over anything you still don’t understand. Finally a couple weeks before exam write a summary maybe. Anyways you know you understand the topic when you can teach it fully or explain to another student who doesn’t understand! Hope that helps ❤️
Same I’m studying animal care and I need to know anatomy of the dog and cat and I don’t know where to start
This has been the most helpful video ive found on notes! Thank you!
I’m not in college but this really inspired me to do some APUSH notes I haven’t done these tricks yet but I can tell they’re going to help sooo much so THANK YOU!!!
Girl my apush teacher this year blessed us with a binder for key terms to highlight in your notes after he gives a lecture. I got a 99% on my first test.
Brae my teacher does something like that too but I just like doing notes in general but that’s so good!!! I got a 75 on my summer assignment test 🥵 hopefully my notes will give me an A on the next one
Oh dang! Well I believe in you, you are gonna pop off on your next test! 🙌🏼
an honest video, Thankyou Olena!!
Wow. You're so honest about the whole thing!
Thank you! ❤️
Rewriting for spelling practice in language classes! For other classes, making flashcards was what counted as rewriting for me.
Love the honesty and real vibes ur giving
The most beneficial note taking video I’ve watched, thank you so much.
i love how you kept it real in the beginning
If your teacher hands you the PowerPoint: write/type on the PowerPoint slides! I don't know but this is such a simple but revolutionary way I shrunk down time during lectures, bcz you only have to write down the extra stuff that is important but not the essentials
Edit: result --> this will result in more of your attention being on the lecture itself instead of writing notes