During WWII, a colonel from Alaska asked Prof. Emeritus Walter J. Pauk to draft a brief guide on how to teach his soldiers to read and study effectively for their correspondence courses. The guide ...

Here’s how my notes got better when I stopped trying to make them perfect.

Have you ever felt like your note-taking system is working against you rather than for you? Maybe you’ve spent hours perfecting folder structures, testing out new apps, or diving into productivity ...

For a long time, my note-taking workflow was a mess with a mix of dedicated apps for long-form writing, quick thoughts, research PDFs, and browser tabs. I had built a system that promised maximum ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

Note-taking is something we all do, whether it means writing down a grocery list on an envelope, a phone number on the back of a business card or a more detailed set of notes, like minutes for a ...

Gone are the days when carrying around a pad and a pencil for notes is considered the norm. With the rectangular glass and metal slabs in our pockets getting increasingly more competent at undertaking ...

I'm always taking notes. Whether it's for a book I'm writing, an idea for a book to be written, an item I need to add to a shopping list, or just about anything else that pops to mind, I turn to my ...