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Building a Knowledge Vault
May 29th, 2008 by StephenPosted in GTD, How To -, Links, Productivity |
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Study Hacks - Avoid Wasting an Entire Semester’s Worth of Work
In this academic year-end post, I want to offer up a simple system that helps make sure that you get some lasting value out of your courses.
The Knowledge Vault
The basic idea: During the first week after your courses end — that is, before you start forgetting everything — enter the most important ideas, insights, and resources into a long-term system that you can later easily reference. I call such a system: a knowledge vault. There are an infinite number of possible variations for constructing such a vault; here, I describe just one to get you thinking.
Click on over to Study Hacks and check out the system. Good stuff.
Here is another post on note-taking:
Study Hacks : The Study Hacks Guide to Note-Taking
In this post, I describe some of the most important note-taking strategies to grace the digital pages of Study Hacks. Take a look. If you master this step, you’ll enjoy significant improvements to your academic life.
A Study Hacks Crash Course on Smart Note-Taking
Why Most Students Don’t Understand the Real Goal of Note-Taking
A classic article from the early days of Study Hacks. It lays out my core philosophy on how to take notes well. You can use its “Three Laws of Reduced Study Time Note-Taking” as a general framework for the construction of your own customized note solution.
Read the whole thing!
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May 29th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Stephen, where was this when I was taking college classes! I was so impressed with this site, I sent it to a young friend who will a starting freshman in the fall. As for the Knowledge Vault and how to take notes, that will be a wonderful resource for other classes, seminars or workshops that I attend (one beginning next week). Thanks for finding and sharing!