Note-taking can help in class or a meeting—and if you do them right, they'll help you afterward as well. Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity ...

Printing out Powerpoint slides in advance is helpful when there are complex diagrams that are hard to recreate yourself. Be sure to do the textbook reading before lecture so you have a basic ...

With a new academic year rolling around, students of all ages will be looking for help and guidance with their work—and there are a wealth of options on mobile app stores and the web to help you ...

Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...

Before the internet became the massive and powerful resource it is today, most people went to the library to get the information they needed. It was a pretty labor-intensive task, though, as you'd ...

How many notes do you have saved on your phone? At a quick glance, I have 743 notes stored in Apple Notes alone. I had more than that in Evernote, and let's not talk about the scattered notebooks ...

Note-taking is something we all do, whether it means writing down a grocery list on an envelope, a phone number on the back of a business card or a more detailed set of notes, like minutes for a ...

As a junior at Berkeley who has been here for four semesters now, I feel like I’ve finally gotten the hang of note-taking techniques for the different types of classes I’ve encountered. That hasn’t ...

There's more to consider than just what supplies to buy this year (though we'll help with that too.) When you're a student, your notes are your lifeblood. With more online options than ever for ...

I gave up on note-taking with pen and paper a long, long time ago. The convenience of taking notes digitally is hard to beat. I started out by typing everything on my laptop, but it didn’t take long ...