How I take notes - Tips for efficient note taking that speeds up learning

Hi friends! In this video, I share with you guys how I take notes from start to finish. I love things that minimize effort and maximize outcome so my note taking also doubles as a way to speed up the learning process. It's also fast and efficient, but still easy to reference when I want to revisit the notes in the future. I hope you enjoy this video: How I take notes - Tips for efficient note taking that speeds up learning
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:23 Stationary
02:48 Pre-notetaking
03:17 Notetaking
03:35 Notetaking - system
04:11 Notetaking - focus on high level concepts
05:05 Notetaking - focus on own insights and connections
06:22 Notetaking - full examples
08:45 Notetaking - tip if you have FOMO
09:07 Post-notetaking
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[@TinaHuang1]

How do you usually take notes?

[@Rahul-xc5qe]

hand written notes all the way !

[@gkakash4789]

I'm also taken hand written notes...

[@igumzels6033]

Hi dear, I don't take notes while learning any new programming language or framework. should I do note-making?

[@Ghost-ut3hq]

Hmm thanks for the pointers, hand written all the way, even though i tried digital ones didn't like it.

[@TinaHuang1]

I don’t think you need to! Especially if it’s not your first language

[@365DataScience]

Certainly a NOTEworthy video 🙌

[@TinaHuang1]

HEH 😃

[@sacdaabdurhman]

“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” Sharing some love from small KZbinr

[@johnyoo8954]

I was a horrible note taker in college. I tried to write everything I heard so it was difficult retaining any information during lecture. Often times, I'd write a bunch of chicken scratch and couldn't even understand what I wrote or I'd forget what the professor just said so there'd be a huge gap in between note taking! Great tips!

[@tamgaming9861]

I work in the same way since many years in all field. Also i studied trading 2 years fulltime. What i can give as a learning advice to learn faster is: 1. Make your self questions about what you learn. Just try to develope questions, and then explain them. This REALLY give your brain a benefit. 2. Try to explain it to your self in an 3 year old kid way. Only if you can do it with describing in easy words, then you really understood it. I am a scanner personality, and everything becomes very boring to me after i understood it. I learn all kind of things, from trading to electronics and so on, so i have to learn a lot, but this 2 points, helps me in my work as innovation-scientist to learn everything very fast - hope it helps you a lot :-)

[@qaharnews3913]

What r u doing nowadays

[@bernardogalvao4448]

If you wrote a blog post about I'd read it

[@nishauprety9878]

Try photoreading- you will learn faster with less effort. Paul Scheele packaged it.

[@ambb269]

Your enthusiasm / confidence in learning is so pleasing. Excellent video & style.

[@williamstein5125]

Note taking tips: 1. Use pencil and bright pen. Pen for important words and headlines. 2. Prime your brain by skimming over material. 3. Only write down high level concepts. 4. Recap everything and write down your summary.

[@vishalpandey8241]

I'm glad that I came across this channel as recommendation in my feed! Cool perspective 👍

[@nezzylearns]

This is so well organized and helpful. Learning SQL, Excel, and Machine Learning and I know this will help me

[@gormiksoc]

Left handed, like myself. I have many great pen recommendations for lefties if you're interested (no smudging). I also find using a writing tool with which you "enjoy" writing makes you take better notes as well. I am currently working on changing the angle I hold both my paper and pen so I can write more efficiently as a side hobby.

[@tim64163]

Thank you for sharing. I often struggle with taking notes. It's helpful to see other people's input.

[@azaleakamellia]

The tip on countering FOMO-ness is spot on. I have this horrible horrible habit that I've developed since I started studying on university. And though digital note-taking is great...I personally find it (rather late too) that I remember what I wrote easier. It's the spatial locality in the system I guess. Thanks for sharing this Tina! Really eases my worry now that I'm going back to school and undertaking some hefty coding work that comes with it!

[@shilpakarra7059]

I had been an expert note taker when I was in school and even during college, but I guess the corporate culture and the ultra developed gadgets and apps kind of over powered this habit of mine within due course of time. I recently started taking notes again for my Google Data Analytics course. It seems weird at times since the videos itself provide tools to make notes then and there. Struggling hard to get back to my note taking days. One thing that really helped me back in school while I would take down notes is to mention a song or a dialogue of a movie after every topic, which would make it easier for me to get back to it for future reference. Weird and naive yet worked wonders for me. Will try and follow your tips to get back to it.

[@Mrussninja]

Love this youtuber! No BS no long intro or comedic skits about the topic. Just straight content. KEEPP IT UP!

[@zainabbalogun1744]

Congratulations on 83k Tina!! 🎉 I literally was just watching at 82.9k then I blink & it's changed! You're amazing 🎊

[@TinaHuang1]

Thank you!!! 🥰🥰🥰❤️

[@tinejoan]

okay i just tried doing notes on the left page and the actual content on the right page and OH MY GOD YOU CHANGED MY LIFE i’m sorry it’s just that this makes too much sense it’s actually insane, thank you!!!!

[@florencia9427]

I just found your channel and as someone who started studying different programming lenguages for over a year and is still pretty lons and unmotivated, your videos have been INCREDIBLY useful and motivating. Thank you!!!! (i apologise for any grammar mistakes, i'm from argentina)

[@TinaHuang1]

I’m so happy to hear that!! 🥰

[@kennethkwai1519]

Thanks, I love your videos. You go straight to the point. This one really helped customized my study technique. You are the big sister i never had.

[@cath117]

the insights are very helpful! thanks Tina! 💖 [I actually tried pre-note taking, priming and note-takingbefore] and yeah. I wanna go back again. Trying to bring back my hobbies again. I've lost it lols.

[@ellepark]

Hi Tina, love your videos! Such invaluable insights and career advice! Thank you so much for providing great content. Can I offer a suggestion for writing utensils - Pilot Frixion pens!! They're gel ink but can be erased by friction. They're my favorite note-taking/study utensils to use and come in variety of pretty colors. They do "erase" or "ghost" in extreme heat, but otherwise work really great for me :)

[@asthamishra4162]

I was waiting for this video... Thank you so much

[@devyanipatra9911]

Thank you so much for making all these videos! They are so informative and helpful!!

[@ZornyPooh]

I love your video! First video that looks actually like someone wrote notes not typed it. I really like that!

[@tuskybarn]

Thank you for your video work, I just happened upon this channel and so far 3 videos have been incredibly insightful and helpful!

[@talu6695]

Finding a way to study MOOCs, and pass through your videos. Great tips!

[@ayushrawal706]

For left handed people using spiral notebooks, I suggest you try using the notebooks from the back (last of the notebook) with left side being the primary page. I know it may sound weird but u should give it a try.

[@cath117]

yeah, I tried it and 'twas so since [though it's look like weird to others lol]

[@van-xx3pl]

Very concise and helpful! Thank you Tina!

[@Cris-oe6df]

interesting concepts, thanks for the insights! 🙏🏻

[@AD-fq7zp]

I used to get discouraged when writing notes because of my ugly handwriting. Eventually I would stop taking notes because I despise writing. This video is an inspiration to me. Thank you!

[@seolahmvr2538]

Woah, it was really necessary to me watch your videos. I was very disappointed with myself because of math and my adhd, normally i use to fairyplay a lot during classes. Today i started a huge review of some studying areas I'm incoming and I will try to apply your tips. In some days I'll comeback to tell about it. Thank you so much!

[@pouet4608]

I am too and failed at math learning. It was years ago, before yt. What I remember is that the classes did not bring me anything because it was something like "today we do x" and the course began. I missed General context and I was always finding that there was differences between what is "marketed by the teacher" and the real content of the subject, and that the teacher was focusing on the technical point of the matter, not what made sense. So a high level point of view may be interesting instead of diving in rabbit hole, some sort of "controlled diving" instead.

[@isabellewong9316]

thank you so much for this!! im also learning trading as well. so glad I found you, subscribed X

[@pouet4608]

a lot of your videos are a gem and will be usefull for a lot of people. thanks a lot.

[@anv.4614]

Thank you Tina. Well appreciated.

[@sethuvignesh4224]

while other note-taking videos or fancy colors and designs actually demotivate me as it consumes more energy and time. But this is an honest video on taking notes. Thank you!

[@renee8669]

Wow Tina you are so structured and organised 👏🏼👏🏼 😊 Great video :)

[@davetaylor2088]

This was really helpful. Thanka mate!

[@jennyxu7827]

iPad is an amazing note taking tool to easy future access, search, screenshots…. with the benefits of both hand writing and type based note taking. Reading on iPad while taking notes is also very convenient. Definitely worth it! ( iPad Air is good enough though. Don’t really need to go for Pro.)

[@aquasouleon]

This was so great thank you so much!!!

[@flopper6610]

holy moly this video helped me ALOT

[@salah-dred8576]

Very helpful video✨ thank you Tina 🙏

[@Plus_Red]

Love these! I have been taking notes on paper because I find it faster than typing. I'm thinking of investing in an iPad as well to save the trees!

[@TinaHuang1]

Interesting you think it’s faster? Yeah I think I might just bite the bullet when I reach a goal for myself as a reward for myself

[@ClaudiaDavZam]

You can have a unloadable notebook, you write with a special pen, connect the notebook via USB, then erase and take new notes

[@tinabergersen596]

I recommend that you check out Remarkable. I bought it last year and I love it! By using Remarkable, you get the analog feel of handwritten notes without distractions, but everything is digital. I also have an iPad but prefer to use this instead when it comes to notes.

[@milesmatic2872]

great advice on taking notes!

[@ehname1]

Refreshing to see real handwriting in a note-taking video

[@creatingstuff2day]

This is an excellent tutorial.😎

[@noelcovarrubias7490]

I’m also left handed lol. Growing up everyone told me I was smart because of it hahaha. Up until now I’ve been taking notes using OneNote but I’ll try writing notes on paper after watching this video .

[@TinaHuang1]

Haha did Your parents or teachers ever try to correct you to be right handed? Mine did but they gave up 😅

[@noelcovarrubias7490]

@@TinaHuang1 oh god yes haha and I myself tried to learn to write with my right hand but I never could . 😮‍💨

[@chao.m]

Would you consider using one of the note taking apps? There are several out there that are pretty good: obsidian, notion, room research, thebrain, remnote. They facilitate creation of mind maps, enable automatic forward linking between notes, makes it easy to create tags, and are digitally searchable

[@YashSharma0605]

Great Info!!!!

[@SkyHighBeyondReach]

Great video!

[@Lightpaladinsoldier]

Thankyou for this Tina

[@fabiolemos1750]

Great video Tina

[@BlueTurtle23]

Perfect video!!!

[@Ellipsis115]

5:01 Making a permanent section in my notes called "insights" might help quite a bit. Why I think this: Connections for present concept + priming for future learning. I will see progress on what used to be insights and I might see what I thought something could be useful for seeing how far I've come in my perspective and understanding that "use for browser ext.?" or "analagous to OS kernel?" or such could have developed and how even the way I might note insights could progress massively given more knowledge on a topic or just the fact of what my idea of something I would use it for would develop or change or if the insights actually do take me somewhere seeing it's sprout on paper would be awesome and I could be proud of that. 6:55 Nice camera effect made this slightly more interesting but not too distracting. I wonder if this could be used with animation.

[@artdzot]

04:11 focus on high level concepts 05:05 focus on own insights and connection

[@MM-bw1lo]

Thanks, I came here just to find the post that gets right to the tinfo I need

[@artdzot]

@@MM-bw1lo nice to hear

[@LearningwithMrsOkoro]

Yay a lefty!😃 Note taking is something my students struggle with. 😩 I'm going to try to address this in my advisory class this year.

[@xox14]

Thank you!

[@felixboachieyiadom4457]

starting on my note taking journey

[@daranadine7711]

I just started active recall yesterday! I didn’t even know it had a name! I was like okay, let me explain all this out loud to myself

[@shreyastaware]

Thanks Tina!

[@CookWithMeldz]

Pen and paper all the way! (and colored pens) 😀😀😀

[@eriadeodu918]

Hey, just jammed this channel. Your videos are so BAM! 🔥do you still Livestream your study sessions? I'd love to jump in, self study to be a software engineer is something am actively learning and trying to process.

[@aakashshroff3776]

Inspired 😇

[@faizanshaikh2588]

Nice work

[@lawlietway3733]

isn't anyone going to point out her handwritting? it's as beautiful as mine (also a left-handed) Finally, a REAL KZbinr who doesn't do ridiculous hand lettering Tina, your KZbin Channel has everything I need.

[@Thepewdiepiebro5]

Awesome video, and you should get 3x your subscribers just because you add time stamps on your vids ;__; thx I like how your own video structure is like your notes (high level concepts - explaning the different methods, your own insights - your own system etc and full examples - showing how you do it) - 2x awesome!! Tip: I notice you have some background white noise, and you may have added noise reduction to reduce it. You will get better audio if you speak just a tiny bit closer to the mic (but I see that you probably want to sit in a way so we can see you clearly instead of sitting close to the mic). Maybe it helps ^-^

[@hanweiz84]

Came across this video on my recommendation. Thank you Tina. I hope my notes will be more organised henceforth!

[@sPaternostro99]

I bought a Samsung Tab S6 lite mainly for this. Samsung's app note is great (can insert img, pdf, and even voice msgs on the note!!!). Been studying Japanese with it and math (+geometry) and its been wonderful. I would suggest you buy the case that allows you to "sit" the tablet, otherwise its quite difficult to write with the pen.

[@sPaternostro99]

btw i've always been a defender of paper for studying and reading but istg I havent missed writting on paper since the tab. (and reading pdfs here isnt bad either, ofc a kindle would be better and the physical book even better, but my hands are quite sweaty and I dont have much space for books anyways so this is really really convenient)

[@prathyusham1431]

Instead of iPad, what I recomend is buying a graphics pad if you have laptop or PC. Because everyone know iPad costs alot. Graphics pad is way cheap and have lot of options to choose. I also take notes in graphics pad. I use Huion and wacon. Saves notes online and benifits of writing with hand. Two birds one shot😉

[@rohankishorneog7425]

thanks for the idea man. You saved me a lot of money , i was going for a ipad though i have a good laptop.

[@alaa7464]

I hope i can find that for an affordable price in my country. I do feel bad using many many papers that are thrown at the end. Thank u, i'll look for it

[@akhilv7055]

You are right Prathyusha! Even I bought a graphic tablet or so called pen tablet recently, I just started using it and it's better way to create notes and have much content and examples at a place. @Tina I hope you have seen this comment, it'll save you some money and give you enriched experience, although I really love Apple phones, ipad and laptops experience. It's really premium, still having good way to write notes is the point here. These graphic tablets prices range from $35 - $1000 or more as well, I'd suggest people to go for $40 one's, it gives a working area of approximately 6X4in and it's good enough for taking notes. If a person wants to use it for sketching, drawing I'm not sure which is best. But since I bought 9X6in size, I find it's better to go for 6X4 and have a king size notebook experience than have a A4 sheet experience. Hope this is helpful to people.

[@sophieobomighie156]

When you write with a graphic pad, is there an accompanying app you need to transform transform handwritten note to searchable text? And can you write in word with a graphic pad?

[@theanimefreak591]

Tina (past): data scientist Tina (present): psychologist

[@TinaHuang1]

Wow am I evolving c:

[@theanimefreak591]

@@TinaHuang1 Tina 2.0...hahaha

[@azzyfreeman]

Thanks you soo much

[@solopreneurjourney]

You are awesome!

[@ShantiForever]

In an effort to become as paperless as possible, I broke down and bought an iPad and Apple pencil so I could use it for note taking, a planner, journals, etc. I use it daily for over a year now, and it's really efficient.

[@blastanoizz2]

Do you use any apps in particular for drawing(like diagrams or schematics and such?) And are the notes easy to carry over to other devices? I'm really undecided about whether to stick with my paper 10mm notebook and Typora/markdown, or make the switch so I don't have to scan in pictures/photos each time...

[@MrFibbanacci]

Im learning frontend and Im doing notes from the course. I will definitelly try out the active recall method. I think it might be super usefull. Especially after realizing that I am not able to remind myself some of the aspects that I covered 3-4 articles in the past, this might improve my memory and ability to "recall" knowledge back into my aware part of the brain. Also using a pencil is what I should try out. Since you can remove some parts when making a misstake makes your notes more clean when doing it this way. Im doing the references of where I can find more information about specific topic by drawing a magnifier icon after the some keywords. For example: *background-color* 🏸 (I know it is badminton, but I am draving a similar icon :P) This way I can improve about the certain, more complex part of the topic in a more specific way. Leaving blank left side is also what I has been doing. It is great idea to write down some details about the topic, or leave it for later notes when going back. Using 2 colors (1 for emphasizing things) is also what I've been doing and it is rly usefull later. It focuses your attention on those parts and makes it easier to remember. Thank you for the video. For me it was really helpfull. :-)

[@jac8347]

super inspired by your video and give it a try again! How do you keep track of all your notesbooks?

[@drkenonu]

Thanks for sharing. Very enlightening. Where did you get that 8 panel divider? I love it!

[@TinaHuang1]

Amazon!!

[@PriyankaSharma-qr1yv]

Hey Tina! I noticed in one of your recent videos that you were using an iPad (in the video where you mentioned Naruto haha). Would you please share which one was that and update us of any new techniques you are using for the digital note-taking process ? Thank you for all the awesome content :)

[@nishauprety9878]

Thank you for these very detailed and informative videos. I thank god you didn’t go to medical school and become rep for big pharma! Try photoreading.com it’s using the subconscious mind to learn....and read info and also image streaming. It helps your words flow and retention memory. The challenge in to do both master it and make a video about it. It would help so many students!

[@feliperodrigues6736]

love your videos Tina! Do you think studying Software engineer is good for someone who wants to go to the Data Science field? I currently study chemical engineer, but im thinking about going to software engineer

[@a_monayyyyyy]

Learning to record information from someone who studies data analysis. That just makes perfect sense lol.

[@3vk4]

having an ipad for notes helps me so much with organising and keeping everything in one place! a cool thing about it is being able to take notes on professors’ presentations (some people print everything out and then take notes), so you don’t have overwhelming amounts of paper which can be mixed up and lost. i have the 7th gen ipad which is also much more affordable than the newer ones but is still really good for note taking

[@perpetuallearna9466]

very helpful

[@Prabhat_12]

I AM LEFTY TOO 😁.... Worthy 🔥

[@iloveahsharah]

Wow Being left handed is like a talent .. cause like how 😮😮

[@LukeBarousse]

04:10 FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCES!!! Future-Tina and Future-Luke would agree that this is so beneficial!!! Present-Luke would not agree however... 😒

[@TinaHuang1]

present Luke 🙃

[@LukeBarousse]

present-Luke is lazy... 😜 Loved this vid Tina!

[@daddybruce8084]

big brain move: just take a picture of the notes and put it on notion or something similar. That way you could combine handwritten notes with text and diagrams from text books

[@TinaHuang1]

mmm I have tried that but gave up after a while because it took too long 😶

[@knw-seeker6836]

simple and effective

[@shyamgurunath5876]

Hey Tina, I use obsidian for digital note taking.

[@TinaHuang1]

Oo similar to notion right

[@ness8007]

Wow thank youu

[@12kenbutsuri]

I wonder if it is possible to optimise it further using mind palace on top of this technique.

[@-A-Mehvish]

Beautiful

[@TAQ2Music]

Very helpful! Thank you.

[@asifreza]

Hi Tina! I need a comment from an experienced person like you. Is 8gb macbook air m1 enough for Data Science? Or should I get a 16gb ram?

[@epistemophilicmetalhead9454]

write your own notes expose yourself to material before learning 4:11-5:04 make analogies, diagrams to connect between topics well solve full examples for technical subjects watch a video at 1.5x without pausing too often or read under a time limit so you're forced to note down only the important points don't look at your notes and explain to yourself about what you just studied

[@ftmftm7627]

I cant read my notes ever. Thank you very much 😊

[@ZavN11]

I’m doing web development and was taking notes for html and CSS but I stopped shortly after starting css and haven’t taken any for a while 😂😂 I’m doing JavaScript now and not a lick of notes I just put all my exercises in folders and have references for info on key topics Incase I need to look back and refresh

[@abhishekahirrao4271]

That is the way to go for programming concepts. Only take notes for high level concepts.

[@braamies5339]

Whoa! She is a Flanders. A lefty!!

[@Slimpack4321]

Why didn't any of my teachers tell me this? No wonder I failed out of pre-school. Thanks, I'm gonna use this when I study engineering topics this summer. I want to try to be an electrical engineer even though My Bachelors is in Physics, so I dunno I'll see how that one turns out.

[@pablorolim1253]

I really struggle with notes about math and CS (my background is in Philosophy). Everything seems to be important, every definition, every proof, every corollary. I hadn't still find a way to study it effectively. You did, but I really can't understand how to chosse what not to include when everything seems so important. This also make impossible to finnish any book because I end up almost re-writing it.

[@pouet4608]

Math is hard for me because I easily lose the point losing myself on the details . You have to let them go at the beginning and do a layer learning keeping the point of the matter on focus. I recommend you math sorcerer and a "math map" to get the bigger picture before doing anything. And 90% of the enlightment is in the exercises, corrected one done 3 times, one with try and then correct, one without and then a third time with a chronometer to put things in "reflex" mode.

[@sebisamuel2605]

Finally people would realise the importance of taking notes. Would act as a booster for your learning curve. - Says a guy who wrote only 5 pages of notes of all subjects combined in his entire senior year of engineering 🤠🤠🤠

[@harshitsati]

Legend 💯💯

[@sebisamuel2605]

@@harshitsati 🤠🤠🤠

[@TinaHuang1]

Haha this was me in undergrad. But the problem is that then I don’t have anything to reference back to in future

[@sebisamuel2605]

@@renee8669 I don't think I had photographic memory but I summarised what I learnt in class and I happened to remember those. In exams , used to just elaborate like anything lmaooo

[@sebisamuel2605]

@@TinaHuang1 Ye never thought about it 😅😬😬👀

[@AngelicaPickles1]

I sometimes like to store my notes digitally too. Check out rocket book.