During college, I was always terrible at note-taking! And nobody taught me how to take better notes. We all know reading your textbook is overwhelming and waaaay too much information to contain and remember, so you know the lectures your professors give you is the key is making the most of your exams and passing it with flying colors! The only way I was better at exams is simply by remembering the emphasis my professors put on things to remember by repeating the same things over and over or by letting students know that, "THIS QUESTION" will be on the exam, so you better remember! No longer in college, but this is applicable anywhere! Thanks for the tips, Jim! 😊
I took notes from the video and I realized that when I normally take notes my mind use to go somewhere else (pending things to do, wishes etc) and I just focus on information caption, after this video I have learned that if I puts my mind to capture information but also to think about the real use and application of the content I will retain more information, that makes sense because you are adding something else beyond taking notes task, you are getting your brain working in real life application of the knowledge. That is great technique.!!
I absolutely love hearing this! For anyone currently reading this comment, a spin I'd add onto Jim's (action) aspect is 'what are the opportunities I can find to use this?'. Consider it like the meme around calculus...a student mentions how long it's been since they used calculus in their life, however, by asking yourself to look for and list opportunities where you can see it's applicable and to use it there
Jim, thanks a lot. I am subscribed to your channel, but I get to know about them only when RUclips chooses to display it on my screen. So... How frequently are these coaching sessions conducted. Then I can log in ASAP.. You are doing a great service to make our learning curve better and better! Keep up the good work. 👌👍
You answered my question already, which I didn't hear the first time I listened. Looks like I'm the living example for your observation on inability to focus and listen! Lol!
Actually this video is very effective to even teach our own students how to retain what they learn from us. Mindmapping so important especially as we teach disruptive technologies
This has been my struggle from day 1 - I was the classic note taker that recorded lectures and then wrote notes VERBATIM 😱. Yep - didn’t retain. Thank you so much for this information!!
Jim, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I've improved amazingly how to take notes and retain information with your videos, including this one :)
For a video about taking notes, and noting in this video how over-explaining can be bad, I find it ironic how often things are overexplained in this video.
So far I am seeing note taking tips on RUclips focused on format structure. It is helpful, but I need examples to follow. Some how some way, I do better learning by way of following an example. And any tip on improving my speed taking notes, short hand and summarizing, would be helpful. I suppose practice makes perfect.
At 7 years old, I was labeled "Gifted and Talented". I was apparently ad smart as a 12-14 year old child. I was never taught how to study or take notes. That wasnt a problem at first, but once i hit high school, it became a HUGE problem. It was specifically my US and World history classes that highlighted the problem. That class was taught like it was a college course (it wasnt even an AP course. It was a regular high school class) and we were allowed to use hand written notes on the test. Problem was that the notes we were given were anywhere from 20 to 150 pages long, doending on what we were learning about. I didnt know how to take notes and i couldnt use the notes i was given in class, so i would spend all night and all during class trying to copy the notes down to use. This video helped me a lot. Im planning to start college soon (took a few years off due to mental health and being homeless.) Hopefully this is enough to get me through college. Thank you.
The three questions to ask yourself to create the right side of you're notes are 1. How am I going to use this info? (eg. answers are : In my bio class , in my job, in my seminars etc) 2. Why must I use this info ? (eg. answers are : This info would make my life a little bit less stressful) 3. When will I use this info? (eg. answers are : I would use this info in the upcoming seminar that I have to conduct)
Interestingly I took notes of this video lesson in " capture create" method only. It's really helpful and makes you think about the information you capture. Thanks.
Can anyone show me an example of the way they can use this method please? The whole point of searching his method in a youtube video is i am a visual learner and it sticks.. he doesnt really show examples
I appreciate this video, I am taking my first IT coarse with Google starting today and I really had to face the fact that I suck at note taking! Thank you!
Hi Jim Kwik, I enjoy your video, you give me some ideas on how to improve my note taking skills. I have found for me, that the web, note, design helps me to remember things better when I take notes. I'm a visual, hearing person, so this design works for me. I would like to hear your idea about this, or if you have any suggestions on better note taking process. Thank you!
🙋🏻♀Ok I paused at 11:36/11:41 time stamp of the video to comment this: I have always used the Cornell Note taking method of compiling/taking notes on the fly and in long form then reviewing nad personalizing it after I go home and on the weekends in college way back in the early to mid 2010s. I will be incorporating this to my bullet journal file folder/notebook Thank you soooo so much for sharing 👏👏👏👏👏😘
Jim Kwik Thank you!! Thank you so much!.. nobody could explain it better than you did, I really appreciate it!, This can definitely help me with my new career, to succeed in life to achieve better things, better goals,
This is really awesome, I read this method in your limitless book and also in other training. I am thinking today to get different journals for taking notes, 1) for my study on topics for work 2) for the books I am reading 3) for your memory class I am taking. But I am asking if anyone would be willing to post a screenshot of this method of note-taking?
I have two children. While they were small children in school, one struggled with learning and the other did not at all. The one who struggled was put into learning programs - from the school - that eventually taught her "how" to learn. Guess what, that kid is now wildly successfully in her creative career, and still relies on those strategies. The other child (who previously never even had to study to get good grades) is successful in a different way, but I notice she struggles more nowadays. Learning how to learn is key. I wish I had noticed that 15 years ago.
Great information but in the flip side in my opinion, we are taking care of what the lecturer/ host of the meeting need to do for us for them. If the meeting was intended to give understanding on the information then ample time should be given to that particular session by the lecturer and not just brush it off as "I have given you information then now you need to understand" it situation. Unless, the goal of the meeting was to train perople to come up with understanding based on the information given even if the information is not that organized. In short, transcription is enough for the details and agenda should be in bullet form if the information is already organized by the lecturer/ host. Additionally n my opinion, mindset is also generally important. It depends on the context on why you are taking notes, what will you take note and what can you take notes. Not all taking notes are the same. Secret meetings, brainstorming, information spread, lecture, memorandum, politics discussion, tutoring, teaching and specially when you don't have any information before hand at all on the topic where you take notes or also if you have so much information than the lecturer/host itself.
Jim, could you show an example of capture? What to capture and how much to capture? I have limitless, so maybe using a couple of pages of the book showing how to decide what to capture. I feel like I capture too much. Thanks.
I thought this was going to teach how to take notes. You said not to take notes the only way I know how, but I didn’t hear anything about how to take better notes. Those three questions certainly was not a new way or better way. If I’m sitting in a class to which I know why I need to take them for a test, how very quickly, and when at test time. The 3 questions you purposed may give some minor help if I read or heard something that I might think I could use later down the road but not sure when then your 3 questions may apply. If I’ve missed something please explain
The same question for me. I heard about this technique from Jim somewhere else, and today seeing the caption, I took a notebook to try the technique but I didn't find these 3 question helpful as I already knew what is my perpuse to listen to this. What's more capturing and interpreting and listening and writing at the same time would be so challenging and missing information. Please let me know it I missed sth.
Very interesting page division note taking style. It reminds me to humans brain division: left brain half and right brain half, which should work in different ways (left language, right more mathematical).
Thanks for the page division idea Jim! I've tried it but I notice that I tend to fill it with lengthy answers to the question "How, Why, When to use this?" I wonder if it's right to do that...
For me making my text bold for certain keywords or color. For instance capture create method: We divide parts into left and right: that word < capture and create > could be in bold or in any colorful font..I saw another videos. It says, three R. 1. Remember 2. Recall 3. Retain.
I've never been great at taking notes. Trying to self educate/study topics I'm interested in though want to actually retain it and have quick references if I forget something
Hello Jim! It is such a privilige learning from you and all those ways of improving techniques, better yet to make it possible believe we can prove ourselves to level up our knowledge. Thanks!
I am adding my new goal to listen 1 to your videos weekly. Also, do you have any methods for people that take notes on iPad? For example, re writing my notes after class on paper help, but when is the best time for the brain to due it since is a muscle? Reasons I enjoy note-taking on iPad: I record and take pictures. Is re-writing notes efficient? What about before studying? My professor don't share lectures before but I make a fast reading is that the best approach on pre lectures? I think that getting ready for a lecture should have a whole video. Thank you so much for all your knowledge !
Thank you so much jim kwik for this it is really very much helpful Im sohaib from India And i want you to plzzz have an interview with david goggins he is very amazing guy his teachings will gonna really help us alot So its a genuine request plzz....❤️❤️❤️
Before this I used sketchnoting and mindmapoing kind of forms. And in the mindmapping I used examples for my self what it triggered in me. But these questions I will add beacuse it gives a deeper layer and also prioritize. Espcially if I can't explain to myself why I can't use it then it will be not used because I need that as a push to put it into my mind
g = goal p = purpose a = action how can i use this ((creativity , chain linking, basic association, "palast)) ? why must " " ? when will " " ? (calender) Brain: left side: logic right side: creative, imagintaion
This is an interesting method of note taking. The shocking information from was: tradetional noate taking is more effective than digital note takin, I almost forgot how to use a pen :), Well, I will try to get back to the old method again. Although I think these tips are very good for concentration and information retain, but I think it will affect reading speed. I hope my guess is wron.
Jim please.... I have a real problem of focus then if I will take notes with the capturing - creating information probably I will lose lot information because my dispersion 🥺 Must I make the creative exercise after of the conference? only take the notes of capturing during the event?🙏🏻🙏🏻
I took the worst notes when I went through engineering, all my professors were baffled on how I prepared for my exams 😂 I guess I just did, organized chaos I guess, but now I’m preparing for my masters and I can’t BS anymore.
During college, I was always terrible at note-taking! And nobody taught me how to take better notes. We all know reading your textbook is overwhelming and waaaay too much information to contain and remember, so you know the lectures your professors give you is the key is making the most of your exams and passing it with flying colors! The only way I was better at exams is simply by remembering the emphasis my professors put on things to remember by repeating the same things over and over or by letting students know that, "THIS QUESTION" will be on the exam, so you better remember! No longer in college, but this is applicable anywhere! Thanks for the tips, Jim! 😊
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"Why MUST I use this?" is the question I definitely am needing to add, execute and utilize. Love this thank you.
Jim, I am 65, just bumped into your Note Taking video(s). THANK YOU. Fantastic! Still learning. Bill
I took notes from the video and I realized that when I normally take notes my mind use to go somewhere else (pending things to do, wishes etc) and I just focus on information caption, after this video I have learned that if I puts my mind to capture information but also to think about the real use and application of the content I will retain more information, that makes sense because you are adding something else beyond taking notes task, you are getting your brain working in real life application of the knowledge. That is great technique.!!
I absolutely love hearing this!
For anyone currently reading this comment, a spin I'd add onto Jim's (action) aspect is 'what are the opportunities I can find to use this?'.
Consider it like the meme around calculus...a student mentions how long it's been since they used calculus in their life, however, by asking yourself to look for and list opportunities where you can see it's applicable and to use it there
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Jim, thanks a lot. I am subscribed to your channel, but I get to know about them only when RUclips chooses to display it on my screen. So... How frequently are these coaching sessions conducted. Then I can log in ASAP.. You are doing a great service to make our learning curve better and better! Keep up the good work. 👌👍
You answered my question already, which I didn't hear the first time I listened. Looks like I'm the living example for your observation on inability to focus and listen! Lol!
Where can I get that shirt?
Actually this video is very effective to even teach our own students how to retain what they learn from us. Mindmapping so important especially as we teach disruptive technologies
This has been my struggle from day 1 - I was the classic note taker that recorded lectures and then wrote notes VERBATIM 😱. Yep - didn’t retain. Thank you so much for this information!!
Very helpful Thank you Jim, I’ve been doing it the worst way for many many years! Never to late to learn🙏
This method is great. First day taking notes and I noticed this shift and my comprehension of the subject is a lot clearer
Great note taking tool for retaining and revising information from talks & lectures. Love it!! thanks so much.
Definitely, I will share this with my students... Thanks Jim kick
Jim, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I've improved amazingly how to take notes and retain information with your videos, including this one :)
For a video about taking notes, and noting in this video how over-explaining can be bad, I find it ironic how often things are overexplained in this video.
same
So far I am seeing note taking tips on RUclips focused on format structure. It is helpful, but I need examples to follow. Some how some way, I do better learning by way of following an example. And any tip on improving my speed taking notes, short hand and summarizing, would be helpful. I suppose practice makes perfect.
At 7 years old, I was labeled "Gifted and Talented". I was apparently ad smart as a 12-14 year old child. I was never taught how to study or take notes. That wasnt a problem at first, but once i hit high school, it became a HUGE problem. It was specifically my US and World history classes that highlighted the problem. That class was taught like it was a college course (it wasnt even an AP course. It was a regular high school class) and we were allowed to use hand written notes on the test. Problem was that the notes we were given were anywhere from 20 to 150 pages long, doending on what we were learning about. I didnt know how to take notes and i couldnt use the notes i was given in class, so i would spend all night and all during class trying to copy the notes down to use.
This video helped me a lot. Im planning to start college soon (took a few years off due to mental health and being homeless.) Hopefully this is enough to get me through college.
Thank you.
Thank you so much Jim
Will follow all your coachings diligently from now on.
The three questions to ask yourself to create the right side of you're notes are
1. How am I going to use this info? (eg. answers are : In my bio class , in my job, in my seminars etc)
2. Why must I use this info ? (eg. answers are : This info would make my life a little bit less stressful)
3. When will I use this info? (eg. answers are : I would use this info in the upcoming seminar that I have to conduct)
I've been doing it all wrong. I'm grateful for this new perspective.
This is great! It is like the mirror image of the Cornell Method with the mental boost of “knowledge x action = power”.
Interestingly I took notes of this video lesson in " capture create" method only. It's really helpful and makes you think about the information you capture. Thanks.
Can anyone show me an example of the way they can use this method please? The whole point of searching his method in a youtube video is i am a visual learner and it sticks.. he doesnt really show examples
Thank you Jim! This will be put to very good use!
I appreciate this video, I am taking my first IT coarse with Google starting today and I really had to face the fact that I suck at note taking! Thank you!
This was truly helpful. Thank you, Jim!
I am lucky. It is only today that I searched for this topic specifically, yet I found it less than 1 day after its publishing.
Hi Jim Kwik, I enjoy your video, you give me some ideas on how to improve my note taking skills. I have found for me, that the web, note, design helps me to remember things better when I take notes. I'm a visual, hearing person, so this design works for me. I would like to hear your idea about this, or if you have any suggestions on better note taking process. Thank you!
Jim I’m learning w/your video &at the same time- I noticed u rarely blink …had me questioning myself if this was A.I. created
🙋🏻♀Ok I paused at 11:36/11:41 time stamp of the video to comment this:
I have always used the Cornell Note taking method of compiling/taking notes on the fly and in long form then reviewing nad personalizing it after I go home and on the weekends in college way back in the early to mid 2010s.
I will be incorporating this to my bullet journal file folder/notebook
Thank you soooo so much for sharing 👏👏👏👏👏😘
Lol personalizing it hahaha Im typing real fast sorry for the typo XD
I love how you associated it with what's your written on your t shit 🥰
Jim Kwik Thank you!! Thank you so much!.. nobody could explain it better than you did, I really appreciate it!, This can definitely help me with my new career, to succeed in life to achieve better things, better goals,
I have a question, do we take and make notes simultaneously. That seems a bit of a challenge ...
This is really awesome, I read this method in your limitless book and also in other training. I am thinking today to get different journals for taking notes, 1) for my study on topics for work 2) for the books I am reading 3) for your memory class I am taking.
But I am asking if anyone would be willing to post a screenshot of this method of note-taking?
I have two children. While they were small children in school, one struggled with learning and the other did not at all. The one who struggled was put into learning programs - from the school - that eventually taught her "how" to learn. Guess what, that kid is now wildly successfully in her creative career, and still relies on those strategies. The other child (who previously never even had to study to get good grades) is successful in a different way, but I notice she struggles more nowadays. Learning how to learn is key. I wish I had noticed that 15 years ago.
Great information but in the flip side in my opinion, we are taking care of what the lecturer/ host of the meeting need to do for us for them.
If the meeting was intended to give understanding on the information then ample time should be given to that particular session by the lecturer and not just brush it off as "I have given you information then now you need to understand" it situation. Unless, the goal of the meeting was to train perople to come up with understanding based on the information given even if the information is not that organized. In short, transcription is enough for the details and agenda should be in bullet form if the information is already organized by the lecturer/ host.
Additionally n my opinion, mindset is also generally important. It depends on the context on why you are taking notes, what will you take note and what can you take notes. Not all taking notes are the same. Secret meetings, brainstorming, information spread, lecture, memorandum, politics discussion, tutoring, teaching and specially when you don't have any information before hand at all on the topic where you take notes or also if you have so much information than the lecturer/host itself.
Knowledge is power if you agree like it 👌 brotherhood advice aquire as much Knowledge as you can
This is a pretty good way of note taking i'dd probably use it for the movies I watch.
Really they are three magical questions to hack any problem. Thank u very much jim kwik
Jim, could you show an example of capture? What to capture and how much to capture? I have limitless, so maybe using a couple of pages of the book showing how to decide what to capture. I feel like I capture too much. Thanks.
I thought this was going to teach how to take notes. You said not to take notes the only way I know how, but I didn’t hear anything about how to take better notes. Those three questions certainly was not a new way or better way. If I’m sitting in a class to which I know why I need to take them for a test, how very quickly, and when at test time. The 3 questions you purposed may give some minor help if I read or heard something that I might think I could use later down the road but not sure when then your 3 questions may apply. If I’ve missed something please explain
The same question for me. I heard about this technique from Jim somewhere else, and today seeing the caption, I took a notebook to try the technique but I didn't find these 3 question helpful as I already knew what is my perpuse to listen to this. What's more capturing and interpreting and listening and writing at the same time would be so challenging and missing information. Please let me know it I missed sth.
❤yes i will use moving forward and make note when unable to schedule space to review information again with note taking
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. It is useful both in personal and professional life.
How do you have time to do this, while every sentence have multiple information related to one another to build the whole picture???
Thank you Jim. Great Video🙏
You are a good Teacher 😍 Long live you!
It worked better for data analysis programming to memorize it, than repetition method
Wow ! Wonderful tips for taking notes. Could you please send me a format or screen shot of previously taken notes with these techniques?
brilliant note taking method. thanks
Very interesting page division note taking style. It reminds me to humans brain division:
left brain half and right brain half, which should work in different ways (left language, right more mathematical).
THIS was pretty interesting. i am horrible at taking notes; this feels more effective.
This is very helpful, thank you Jim!
Thanks for the page division idea Jim! I've tried it but I notice that I tend to fill it with lengthy answers to the question "How, Why, When to use this?" I wonder if it's right to do that...
Okay I will do this and evaluate it. Thanks Jim!
Thanks Jim for making my work Kwik!
Thank you so much Jim ❤❤❤
I think it would be interesting to see this method applied, to see what a page of notes actually looks like.
For me making my text bold for certain keywords or color. For instance capture create method: We divide parts into left and right: that word < capture and create > could be in bold or in any colorful font..I saw another videos. It says, three R. 1. Remember 2. Recall 3. Retain.
I wish I saw this video during high school
I think this is quite a useful method. Thanks for the tips!
I like that take note 1 side then interpret it to to suit you on the right .
I've always had trouble with note taking. I'm going to try out this method.
Thank you !
Thank you
How to create a schedule?
How to apply the three questions:
Q. How can I use?
Q. Why must I?
Q. When will I?
When am I going to decorate my notebook?
Wonderful. Thank you.
Thanks Jim!
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Jim! This is going to be a way for my grades to increase😍
Capture-> create
How can I use this?
Why must I use this?
When will I use this?
the 3 questions to get yourself to do something:
1. how can I use this
2. why must I use this
3. When will I use this
I've never been great at taking notes. Trying to self educate/study topics I'm interested in though want to actually retain it and have quick references if I forget something
Awesome Jim! Thanks
Thank you!
Thank you jim🙌🏽🔥🙏🏽
Thank you so much Jim Kwik..This is really amazing.. 👏❤️
Thank you Jim.🙏🧠♥️
Notes:page in 2. Left.Right questions:how can I use this?
Why must I use this?
When will I use this?
It’s incredible lecture Jim. It will definitely help me to memorize more information in my second language. Thank you so much for creating this video.
Thank you Jim so useful
If this is all I need to get the rightful information I’m putting it to work right away.
Hello Jim!
It is such a privilige learning from you and all those ways of improving techniques, better yet to make it possible believe we can prove ourselves to level up our knowledge.
Thanks!
I am adding my new goal to listen 1 to your videos weekly. Also, do you have any methods for people that take notes on iPad? For example, re writing my notes after class on paper help, but when is the best time for the brain to due it since is a muscle? Reasons I enjoy note-taking on iPad: I record and take pictures. Is re-writing notes efficient? What about before studying? My professor don't share lectures before but I make a fast reading is that the best approach on pre lectures? I think that getting ready for a lecture should have a whole video. Thank you so much for all your knowledge !
Thank you so much jim kwik for this it is really very much helpful
Im sohaib from India
And i want you to plzzz have an interview with david goggins he is very amazing guy his teachings will gonna really help us alot
So its a genuine request plzz....❤️❤️❤️
Thanks jim kwik
Thank you bro ❤
He said everything you need to know in his first sentence...to retain something is to remember...folks you have to exercise your memory
Before this I used sketchnoting and mindmapoing kind of forms. And in the mindmapping I used examples for my self what it triggered in me. But these questions I will add beacuse it gives a deeper layer and also prioritize. Espcially if I can't explain to myself why I can't use it then it will be not used because I need that as a push to put it into my mind
1. How can I use this?
2. Why must I use this?
3. When will I use it?
I will try this method and thank you, iam not good at taking notes.
How do you control your blinking? I noticed you rarely do so
Does it matter which side you write the note on? I have always written it on the right side and then my own notes about it on the left.
Thank you💗
needed this, thankyou 💗
g = goal
p = purpose
a = action
how can i use this ((creativity , chain linking, basic association, "palast)) ?
why must " " ?
when will " " ? (calender)
Brain:
left side: logic
right side: creative, imagintaion
This is an interesting method of note taking. The shocking information from was: tradetional noate taking is more effective than digital note takin, I almost forgot how to use a pen :), Well, I will try to get back to the old method again. Although I think these tips are very good for concentration and information retain, but I think it will affect reading speed. I hope my guess is wron.
I am reading your book now and i wish i had read it as soon as it published ..
Good video, i like it!
I absolutely love your t-shirt,😊
Is this a playlist?
Jim please.... I have a real problem of focus then if I will take notes with the capturing - creating information probably I will lose lot information because my dispersion 🥺
Must I make the creative exercise after of the conference?
only take the notes of capturing during the event?🙏🏻🙏🏻
I took the worst notes when I went through engineering, all my professors were baffled on how I prepared for my exams 😂 I guess I just did, organized chaos I guess, but now I’m preparing for my masters and I can’t BS anymore.
Thanks 🤭😁 Jim Kwik