I found myself thinking today about the way I take notes. I listen to a lot of speeches and lectures, as well as podcasts, and often want to take notes about what I’ve heard. The problem is that trying to write everything down verbatim is too difficult unless you’re a shorthand genius. I’m not… so I summarise… and when I look back at my notes I wonder what on earth they actually mean!
A far better way to keep summarised notes, and make sense of them afterwards, is to use mindmaps. Now, I said I found myself thinking about this and wanted to write about it. Turns out I’d already done it about two years ago, so rather than duplicate that I’ll just point you to the original series on mindmapping.
Have a look and see what you think. Don’t forget to keep checking back too, as I have another site to add to the mindmapping tools in the original series too. Go on, take a look, and see if mindmapping can help you take better notes.
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