Take one look around the lecture hall, and you’re hit with a sea of students buried in their screens and notebooks. Some opt for laptops, rapidly typing away at their keyboards as the professor ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

Essay writing becomes much easier when your notes actually support the way you think. Many students struggle not because they lack ideas, but because their research is scattered across notebooks, tabs ...

Have you ever had a brilliant idea pop into your head, only to forget it moments later because life got in the way? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? We’ve all been there—scrambling to recall that fleeting ...