Understanding attention span and working memory capacity is important to learn how to take electronic notes more effectively.
If you’re just copying down what the lecturer says and you don’t revise what you’ve written down, there’s little point in taking notes.
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We tend to lose almost 40% of new information within the first 24 hours of first reading or hearing it. However if we take notes effectively, we can retain and retrieve almost 100% of the information we receive.