Studying With Sticky Notes
Tag your book. Post-it notes are great for marking up pages or paragraphs in the book you're studying. Just stick the note on the relevant page and write a short note or a few keywords explaining why you flagged this section. In addition to the traditional square sticky notes, you can also buy slim and tall sticky notes that are ideal for marking pages in books.
These finer notes will mark up the page without covering most of the actual text.
You can also tear regular square notes into thinner strips and use them as markers.
Notes are a great way to represent important content, especially when you restructure the information in your own words
Take some notes. Notes are a great way to make short notes on a topic you're studying or researching. While you'll take longer and more detailed notes in a workbook, sticky notes are great for writing down key words or phrases you want to learn. Then you can stick them on the wall where you work.
You can organize your notes and move them around to help you visualize the information you're trying to learn.
If you're studying for a history exam and want to know the chronology of events, you can paste your notes in order and separate them by year or month.
You can also use sticky notes to condense important passages into your own words, which can help you summarize important information while also re-teaching the information to yourself. Writing down key vocabulary and sticking your notes at home is a great way to practice your foreign language.
Write a to-do list. If you have long tasks to accomplish or things to learn, sticky notes can be a useful way to organize your to-do list. You can write down a task on each sticky note and move them up and down the list based on your priorities and deadlines. Alternatively, you can group similar or related tasks together on one note to better visualize what you have to do.
If you have a sticky note list of to-dos on the wall, pulling its notes down when you complete a task will give you some satisfaction.
If you're using your notes for study, sticking them above your desk is probably the best place.
You can also stick them in prominent places around your home, such as computer monitors or refrigerators.
Tag your folders. Mark your different folders and collections of notes with sticky notes to make it easier to find what you need as you study. You can cut out sticky notes so you can use the slim, adhesive-backed section and write a short title for the contents of the folder.
You can attach labels to the side or spine of folders to make it easier to find what you're looking for.
