Right now tens of thousands of students around the world are taking lecture notes in a completely inefficient way: writing them down line by line; or, in some languages, column by column.
But the brain does not work that way. It does not store information in neat lines or columns.
It stores information like branches on a tree – on branches called dendrites.
It also stores information by patterns and associations. And to store information the way your brain does – British psychologist Tony Buzan has invented Mind Mapping.
So don't take notes, make Mind Maps. And make them with trees, with pictures, with colors, with symbols, with patterns and associations.