Have you ever felt like your notes are more of a cluttered archive than a useful tool? Maybe you’ve scribbled down ideas, bookmarked articles, or highlighted passages in books, only to find them ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

Justin Dunnavant is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Florida. You can find him on Twitter @archfieldnotes or at his blog AfricanaArch. As graduate students, we are confronted with ...

Note-taking can help in class or a meeting—and if you do them right, they'll help you afterward as well. Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity ...

Success in academics often hinges less on raw intelligence and more on consistent habits—and effective note-taking is one of the most powerful of them all. Top students know that great notes are more ...

A while back, in my corporate days, I was experiencing this far too often. So I went back to my college days and pulled out a note-taking method I used to use, one of the most popular note-taking ...