I'm always taking notes. Whether it's for a book I'm writing, an idea for a book to be written, an item I need to add to a shopping list, or just about anything else that pops to mind, I turn to my ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Hopkins for Mashable When you're a student, your notes are your lifeblood. With more online options than ever for note-taking ...

Stay organized with the right note-taking tool. Options range from simple, quick notes to advanced features. Free and paid choices make it easy to find the right fit. With the new year upon us, it's ...

If there is one essential skill that students should master in schools and universities, it is the art of taking good notes. Notes that are not copied and pasted from professors' slides, not even the ...