Note taking is good for its own sake, but notes also need to be useful.

For notes that are taken during a lecture, the Cornell note taking system is always a good option. This is a good option for handwritten notes in particular.

With typed notes in Notion, a different approach is needed - one that takes advantage of the medium, but also captures the heart of handwritten notes.

Heavy use of the bookmark, quotation, toggles, tabbed bullet points and linking features of Notion will be useful, but there are two things in particular that will make the difference:

1 - Adding in highlights and callouts as commentary on the notes that have been made.

2 - #spaced repetition system to revisit and re-edit notes already made. This can found both when I ‣ and when revisiting the notes collected in ‣.