Simple And Effective Ways To Make Notes

Tips for making notes from a textbook or course material -

1. Textbooks are usually neatly structured into chapters, topic headings and sub headings which can provide an easy framework for creating your Mind Map branches.

2. Build your Mind Map as you progress through the study text. Every time you read an idea that strikes you as important or interesting, just add it to your Mind Map in the appropriate place. You can also add your own thoughts and ideas as they arise while you are reading.

3. Add detail such as images, shapes, highlights and colours to help you organize the material better and commit it to memory.

4. When you have finished reading, you will have generated a single Mind Map which summarizes everything of interest from the text. The act of creating the Mind Map will have greatly increased the volume of information that you absorbed from the text.

5. If you created your Map with a Mind Mapping software you can review the topic at any time by referring back to your Mind Map. It is easy to make any changes or restructure your map without the hassle of recreating all of your work.

6. You don’t need pages and pages of notes for effective study!

Tips for summarizing a lesson or lecture -

You may want to summarize a lesson or lecture you have recently had to reinforce what was taught. Use Mind Maps to collate the key information from a set of notes you have already taken. This gives you a sense of the dominant themes and structure of the lesson or lecture.

1. Start by entering the subject matter of the lesson in the middle of the map with a central image.

2. Create the main branches from this subject, each labeled with a key topic or theme that was covered in the lesson. Remember to use single key words in keeping with Mind Mapping principles.

3. Next draw connecting branches to the main branches and label these with sub-topics. If you have any of your own ideas during this exercise, add them to your Mind Map.

4. Add images to help make the Mind Map more visually memorable for revision.

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