For those people use a computer to study course material: What techniques do you use to help you remember what you read on screen? Do you write things down, type a summary, make notes (either on screen or on paper) or something else?

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For those people use a computer to study course material: What techniques do you use to help you remember what you read on screen? Do you write things down, type a summary, make notes (either on screen or on paper) or something else?

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Answer 1

Corey The Goofyhawk , Epic has no limit, answered

I find that if I write things down I'll remember it better. It doesn't matter if it's on paper or computer, as long as I'm making the conscious effort to rewrite it instead of reading over it, I'll remember.

Answer 2

Call me Z answered

I take a lot of notes, Didge. Lots of notes. I don't just read so much as research topics, mostly nonfiction. I tend to save a lot of material to reread and compare. The sponge isn't quite so absorbent as it once was.

Answer 3

I do a lot of copying and pasting into Word and then redact that document further.

And then I save it in an application called Pigeonhole Organizer.

Occasionally I take a screen shot and paste that into the document if the "copy" command is non-functional.

Fortunately, such things are only to satisfy my own desire for knowledge. So I can only need to remember the things that I deem meaningful to me.

And learning facts about something you already have an interest in is always easy to remember for me.

http://m8software.com/clipboards/pigeonhole/pigeonhole.htm

(I wouldn't want to live without that application or without Clipboard Manager.)

http://m8software.com/clipboards/spartan/clipboard-manager.htm

Answer 4

I usually put the article on one half of the screen and then a word document on the other half and then type up notes as I read it. That's the best way that works for me.