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I've been looking for a personal method to learn efficiently and avoiding knowledge gaps, as possible. More importantly, I'm trying find a way to relearn concepts using a structure that allows it after several months or years easily.
The note-taking method always looked to me as a waste of time as you spend more time trying to write a condensed note for a concept than learning the concept. This also slowed to me to successfully study a complete material, as deadlines for home works and projects were always a priority. I think that students like me taken in account only a few concepts over all material that the book can provided to us, only for approve the next exam.
After the deadlines, try to take notes while reading all the book is still so slow as you can easily loose previous concepts and then get blocked about how to condense the next note. Choose to simply read all the book is not already giving you processed concepts as fast as you read, overall for academic books, often containing large and dense text.
What if I try to relearn only specific concepts about, let's say, "Element attributes in AsciiDoc"? I could write a dedicated note for all related to this concept, but I would already not need to learn all related to this.
Maybe I try to found a tip about the "Considerations using declared element attributes on a block context in AsciiDoc" that I found in a book, but could not be written as I remember, so searching using the search tool could not be useful for me. This tips needs then stay into a more granular note talking only about this, and linked to the main theme.
The repository uses a combination of the following strategies:
- Linked notes - Relate particular concepts, avoiding to replicate concepts in other notes.
- Granular notes - Each note attends for only one concept. This concept can evolve, but the idea is not being hidden under other main idea in a larger note.
- Folder hierarchy - Each concept is related with others under a more general concept. This structure should not be taken to learn; is only useful for searching concepts and for start to learn/relearn an specific area of study.
When you are adding a new note, take only the singular concept that you are trying to write. Then, try to relate it with other notes while writing the singular concept. Also, prepare future links in your note for related notes/concepts not written yet. It is very useful to rapidly write and relate concepts while studying, as forces to you to revisit notes previously written for give to you a map of how this concepts are related in an area of study.
If I only want to relearn "Benefits of using Separate of Concerns", I can start in the "Main node" of this concept, that is the defined entry point to learn about this, and go deeper on the related concepts as much as I want, without get loosed by more information than already I need at these moment.
This is not a recipe. You still need to condense concepts before writting a note, and you require to refactor notes constantly to avoid orphan and/or duplicated notes. Of course, you are free to choose if you want apply this structure to your notes, maybe take some ideas, or avoid completely this as not satisfies your needings. What I can say is I can finally find a real value for my notes, instead to discard it as it is getting obsolete after each course.