How to take notes

There are a lot of methods to take notes and there are a lot of reasons for taking notes. I need to take notes in order to mantain my attention focused on the class, on the meeting, etc. But there better ways for taking notes. Among the five better techniques, I choose two of them:

• Cornell Method: commonly suggested for students who want to improve the organization of their notes. One of the keys to the system is that Cornell notes make use of your existing strengths as a note-taker so that learning the system requires a minimum of preparation and adjustment. Additionally, it permits you to develop study notes very soon after taking original lecture or text book notes without the added work of re-writing vast amounts of material.
• Mindmapping: you may wish to use a non-linear way of organizing your notes called Mind Maps. Mind Maps are diagrammatic ways of organizing key ideas from lectures and texts which emphasize the interconnection of concepts and illustrate the relative hierarchy of ideas from titles, to main concepts, to supporting details. Because they are diagrammatic, they have the potential to capture a lot of information on a single page. They help show the conceptual links between ideas and allows for additional material to be added without the need to crowd the page.