Taking notes by hand is generally preferable to using tech, both because it’s better for retention and also because so many of the best note-taking methods are designed for notebooks. But sometimes, ...

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?

As a junior at Berkeley who has been here for four semesters now, I feel like I’ve finally gotten the hang of note-taking techniques for the different types of classes I’ve encountered. That hasn’t ...