Enhance Your Productivity with Effective Note-Taking

Enhance Your Productivity with Effective Note-Taking

19mIntermediate2021-01-11

Authors

Paula Rizzo

Paula Rizzo

Author, Emmy-Winning Producer, Productivity Coach

Course details

Productivity coach, author, and Emmy-winning producer Paula Rizzo shares her road-tested processes, systems, tips, and hacks for taking effective notes. Explore how to capture important information, process it effectively, and take action. Discover different ways of taking notes. Differentiate between situations where note-taking is critical and situations where it is not. Learn a simple technique to determine what information is useful, and get best practices for taking notes by hand. Learn strategies for using analog and digital notetaking together to your advantage. Explore some nontraditional note-taking methods, as well as proven techniques for generating great notes. Once you have great notes, then what do you do? There are shortcuts to make sense of your notes faster, so you can spring into action. Discover how take clear and concise notes for others. Learn how to plan ahead and come out of every meeting feeling empowered and ready to get things done.

Skills covered

Note TakingTime ManagementWell-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentBusiness Software and ToolsOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • My approach to capturing and processing information effectively

Why Note-Taking Is Essential to Being Productive

  • Note like a journalist
  • To note or not to note
  • Discerning useful information from noise

Analog and Digital Note-Taking

  • Rules of analog note-taking
  • Best practices for digital note-taking
  • Mixing analog and digital note-taking
  • Nontraditional ways to take notes

Hacks for Taking Great Notes

  • Steps for generating great notes
  • Decode your notes
  • Taking great notes for others

Conclusion

  • Preplanning your note-taking makes all the difference