3 Easy Tips to Color Coding Your Notes
With proper color-coding, you can make studying more effective and efficient. Not only can colors help organize information, and draw your attention to important points, colors also appeal to the visual learner and can make studying more fun...or at least more bearable.
Follow along to find out how you can turn your notes from:
THIS to THIS
3 Tips for Color Coding
1. Be consistent - when you first start your coloring coding journey, keep a legend on a sticky note or front cover of your notebook to remind yourself of what all the colors and highlights actually mean.
For example:
Red for important notes that must be memorized
Orange for definitions
Green for examples/ exam practice questions
Blue for titles and headings
Highlight for key concepts/relationships
2. Don’t overdo it - one of the most common and deadly studying mistakes from first years is to highlight and color code everything on the page. Not only does that not help you focus and organize the information, it’s a waste of time and ink! Color-code with purpose and stick to your system.
3. Color-code after the initial note-taking - you don’t want to interrupt the flow of note taking and miss out on important information your prof says. By color-coding after class, it forces you to review your notes and really think about the information rather than just blindly copying
Now try it out and you'll be on your way to color-coding mastery ;)
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