The evidence is clear: Learning to take notes effectively is an essential skill for student success in K–12 classes, higher education and beyond. Research shows that note taking supports learners in ...

World Sketchnote Day 2026 draws attention to the growing practice of sketchnoting—a visual method of capturing ideas using ...

Visual note-taking is a powerful method to enhance creativity, improve memory retention, and simplify complex ideas. If you’re already using Obsidian to organize your thoughts and manage knowledge, ...

For the average professor, a student whose notebook is full of miscellaneous papers, magazine clippings, grocery lists, foil, dryer lint or playing cards doesn’t seem like an effective use of space.

Get out your notebook, pen and markers and put a smile on your face! We going to have fun! Did you know students taking notes by hand perform better? Did you know that drawing or doodling during note ...

The art of using pictures to represent words has been around practically since the beginning of time—think cave drawings. But in the business community, visual note-taking—which involves distilling in ...

I'm somewhat of a note-taking app junkie, and I've tried and tested them all (for school, work, and life). Sometimes I miss ...

The primary purpose of note taking is to encourage active learning and to prepare study materials for exams. Developing note taking skills should help you organize information into an understandable ...

Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...

Learning how to take notes in college is one of the many new responsibilities that comes freshman year. Students need to be prepared since professors often dive into the course material as early as ...

Artificially intelligent digital agents are being marketed as a way to automate note-taking in the workplace, raising a big question for K-12: Are classrooms next? Take, for example, EVA, a “digital ...