How to organize lecture notes
The index is the part people skip. Without it, finding the lecture about a specific concept means opening files and scanning, which is exactly the friction that stops notes being used before an exam.
What matters here
- One note per lecture, dated
- A course index note linking every lecture
- Mark unclear points with a question
- Add readings to the same note
- Consolidate weekly into one page per topic
Naming for search
Course code, date and topic in the title. That makes sorting automatic and gives future searches three different hooks into the same note.
The question marks
Anything you did not follow gets a question mark rather than a guess. Those marks become your study list, which is far more useful than a clean set of notes you cannot use.
Weekly consolidation
Once a week, turn the questions into short answers and write one page per topic. That page is what you revise from, and building it is the revision.
Frequently asked questions
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