Getting Organized: Notes

I find that part of being a successful academic is the skill with which you organize your thoughts, your work and your time. Much of this comes simply from experience. However, you can easily learn how to better structure your reading and note-taking. Here I supply my own methods, but you can just as well develop your own, or improve on mine. The most important thing is to get organized! Working in academia, you need to keep yourself well-informed about your subject. This goes for students, who need to digest a ton of new knowledge fast, and for experts, who need to keep themselves up to date on the research in their field. Both are faced with an immense amount of reading material. In order...

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