Is Taking notes helpful?
As time
goes by, when we get older more and more responsibilities that we have to overcome. I recently
started to notice that young people struggle with remembering everything that
they had planned particular day, sometimes even I feel like not doing anything.
I stopped working out, learning new things, stopped focusing at work, I was
stuck at some point and I felt like some black hole sucks life out of my body.
Maybe for some people it feels like exaggerating but it really is like your brain stopped responding to any input, like a computer
that froze and is waiting for something to bring it back to life. I feel a lot
of people struggle to be successful, to feel like their work makes a difference
for better in life.
Figure 1.
Depression
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Is it
possible to save yourself from failure? What should we do to feel better? Most
of the time we tend to get more sucked in as we start to waste our time doing something
just to silence our thoughts that tell us we lost, we were beaten and we have
nothing to do to make our situation better. I started to notice
that a lot of my friends, colleagues and peers feel
that way.
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Notes
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I
recently came across a video where some guy was talking about taking notes
every day, He said human brain is not able to store all of the information that
we come across in our everyday life or simply to remember what we did in a
specific day, how we felt, what we thought about and what made us happy.
Sometimes a brilliant idea come up to our mind but
in most cases it will just fade away because we were not thinking long enough about the idea and we simply loose
it. This is where a notebook comes in handy. We can carry it anywhere with us
and it will contain every idea, mood, interesting encounter and many other
things that will be accessible to us whatever we want. He said that when
everything was good, he was successful at work and his private life he felt he
was bragging and there was no point in writing his thoughts on paper. After a few months he had a
breakdown and this is where the notebook came in handy. We can take our
thoughts and put it somewhere. He said that it’s a relief to put all that buzz
in your head somewhere when you feel down and struggle with some problems. It
helps you see the pattern that can lead to the source of the problem. Or you
can just come back to some date and what made you happy, because we all know
that we tend to forget all the good things in life when we have some problems
in it. Writing your thoughts in notebook can
be like a session with a therapist but you are your own therapist that knows
every part of yourself. Taking notes has so much to offer and I highly
recommend everyone to give it a try.
Figure 3.
How to journal
Some
people would say, but what about our phones? We can write everything in there
as well. My answer to that is simple, when you are writing something by hand it
is most likely to stay in your head as your muscles are working to write
something and you stay focused on what you are doing more than if you are using
your phone to do it.
Of
course there are many types of notes, as u can do them for specific topics like
mood, work, dreams and so on. I recently started to take notes about my dreams
and it really helped with my sleep and bedtime routine. I started to remember
what I was dreaming of and sometimes even control my dreams and I must say it’s
an interesting experience.
What is your opinion on taking notes?
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Comments
I believe that taking notes is useful for your certain classes like math etc. but I never tried to have something similar to diary. It's just an abstract idea for me and such thing just wouldn't work for me.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
The statement about taking control over your life by taking notes is exaggerated. Sure they can help you with small things like making groceries lists so you don't forget to buy something or writing down some to-do list if you have a lot on your mind and would be generally good for some time management but when 'taking control over your life' would require some real action towards your issues.
2. In my opnion, for sure notes help us to remember thing or to do some stuff but I do not think that it helps us to take control over our life when we are feeling down.
3. Yes, of course. I take notes every day especially at work as I mentioned in first point but also for every day tasks like checking groceries.
2. Taking notes make us more organized in life and we can remember all things to learn or stuff to do but it doesn't seem to me that it helps when we are feeling down.
3. As I said in question one I take notes on lectures and it helps me a lot to learning these things later.
Taking notes is a very good way to repeat and record information. It is based on the fact that at least once more information is in our head. At some stage of learning this way doesn't work the most, because instead of knowledge you need logical thinking or special abilities (for example, on PJATK).
I hate feeling depressed. I am usually a volcano of positive energy, but every contact with pessimism spoils my positive aura. In addition, it doesn't help that I feel the sadness of other people around me. But don't be sad; try to be better and happier version of yourself.
I believe that taking notes could improve our performance in classes or work when we need to remember list of tasks that we're obliged to do, but overall if You are able to remember all of it it's not that important.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I don't think so, actually i've never tried so my opinion isn't that much valuable but i can't see a way for it to help me when i'm feeling down.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Yes i've took notes during classes when i was in primary school, it helped me back then and right now i'm writing down every idea that comes to my mind on my phone, whenever it's a good or bad idea, i'm writing down all of them so they might come in handy later.
In my opinion, it is not possible to clearly define whether taking notes is good or bad, because it depends very much on the person. For some people taking notes is very useful, for others it is completely distracting and does not help.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I think taking notes helps to control and plan your life, because it gives us the points to do it, which certainly pulls you out when you are feeling down . Action always helps you to get out of worse situations.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
I was never good at taking notes at school because I was very distracted. I just preferred to sit and listen. But now I'm taking a few notes to remember what I have to do.
1. I think taking notes is a great thing. It certainly helps to systematize the notes and fewer things we need to remember. However, I personally don't use notes. My brain is my notebook :)
2. No, I don't think so. I would even say that these are two different things not related to each other.
3. I took notes, but I found it a waste of time for me. I don't like taking notes. I prefer to listen actively and at the same time remember all the information.
I always take notes on something i want to learn or have to remember as it have double effect of just trying to do it in memory.
2.Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
Yes, as we process so many informations, sometimes we forget about something we should always remember as some life rules and it is good to have a note that reminds us of it.
3.Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Yes many times. Usually about my week schedule and everything i planned ahead.
I don't do notes, but it's thing that I should change, your presentation made me think of this and it can significantly impact my productivity.
2) Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
Yes, I think it's a great method to organise your life. There's so much going on that it's really difficult to handle without good organization skills.
3) Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
I would definitely try now and I'll let you know how it goes.
2. Probably yes. For some people, it's easier to write all the things down and then cross them out. It shows them that they're dealing with problems one by one and have control over the situation. Of course I don't mean it's something wrong, if it helps them, it means it's good.
3. Yes, as I said before taking notes help me with organizing my work/studying. It makes situation more clear and easier to understand.
2. I don't think so. In my opinion if someone feeling down just need to have something on which can spend time, it can by taking notes or do something alse.
3. Yes, it helps my to better prepare for something and I don't have situation when I'm suprise by something about I've forgotten.
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By coincidence, we were discussing this question in a project management class this week, when it comes to studying or working, my opinion is that it depends on different people's memory of special topics, as for me, I never take notes in PJA, if something is important, then I can remember it in my brain, if it is not important, even if I will take a note, I won't read this note anymore, so it doesn't help and waste my time to take a note.
2.Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I don't think it helps me since I never take note as I answered in last question, but I think it helps some other people.
3.Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
When it comes to life but not studying or working, I don't take notes as well, I am sure it would help, but it won't help me that much, it is kinda dispensable for me. When it comes to inspiration(e.g. a short music phrase), I often take notes.
2. I don't agree with it. I think that note-taking make our life organised and it gives us chance to write down things that we should learn or do.
3. Yes, I take notes everyday not only in classes but also at work. It helps me to learn faster and more effectiv, be more productive and remember all things that I need to do. In my private life I make to do list and to be honest I can't imagine my day without it.
1. I think taking notes in any way is key to be able to do something bigger than what you can just remember. With my experience from work, the project is impossible to do without proper notes, however, the ones I do just by myself do not require them.
2. Can't say, because I almost never feel down for more than 5 minutes. If someone would feel better with it, sure though.
3. Yes, I took many notes while I was at school, as well as after that. As I mentioned taking notes is key to remember what you can't remember by yourself.
I think so. It's as if it's putting things in order in my head... Or divides the work of the brain into "need to do" and "state of mind"... Call it what you want.
I tried. And now I do it. It helps me to organize myself very much.
2) It can help but it's easier said than done. In reality "taking control" especially by writing things down can help only in some trivial cases. Of Course it will help you at some point to sort things in your mind but it's not taking control over the sytuation.
3) Taking notes helped me mostly when i needed to remember things i'm usually forgetting or to write down my ideas not to lose them. It's also helping me while studying to remember thing better.
2.Yes, I think so. We can obtain more control on our lives by taking care of small things at the beggining. Writing down daily to do lists even with simple task such as cleaning, doing laundry or reading keeps us grounded to easily achievable things which is crucial for staying sane while we are feeling down.
3.Yap, I even bought a planner to organize my time and keep notes. It works for me when I have to switch between projects daily or I plan appointments in more than week ahead.
When I learn something new, I always take notes. I think it's something that allows you to remember the material better. When it comes to noting down the course of my day I have never tried anything like that, but I often do lists of things to do and I put in the calendar the most important plans.
2. Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
Such an experience may allow us to rise from the hole in our lives, but it may as well plunge us even deeper into a sense of hopelessness.
3. Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Like I said, I've never tried anything like this. Apart from the basic notes with the list of things to do, I did not go deeper into this subject.
Taking notes gives you the ability to plan your life and control it. In the supermarket, it is very useful because you will save your money.
I am taking notes all the time. Thanks to my smartphone I don't need to take a pen and a sheet of paper with me :) It helps me a lot because you have more time to plan everything and maybe substitute some tasks or remove them at all. I use them in studies because it is very hard to keep everything in your head.
I take notes sometimes, because it’s easier to remember certain things, more complicated ones. It’s also useful to write down important information not to forget about it. At the end of the day you can check if you completed everything you wanted or had to do that day. Especially nowadays we live in such a rush and we are bombarded with information from everywhere, it’s easy to forget something.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
In my opinion it helps to gather your thoughts and organize your life and plans. It’s better to have something written down, because it can be hard to think when you’re in a bad mental state.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
I have tried taking notes on my phone, because I know I won’t lose them in any way. It does help me stay organised and make sure I did everything I had to do.
easier to remember. It seems to me that the notes bring light professionalism
2. I don't think so
3. Every time I have a problem, I support the solutions with notes. Notes will sort things out a little
and give me a wider picture of the problem
As you said, there are different types of notes, depending on what you write down in them, dreams, goals, reminders, or just some thoughts. Each of us can use the appropriate type of notes for him and successfully apply in our lives. Someone has a bad memory, someone goes astray on the way to the goal, and so on. I think this is a useful thing anyway. The main thing is to overcome laziness, pick up a pen and notebook. This is not so simple. I think people on average make few notes on paper, so what they will display in their notes will definitely be remembered.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
The answer is of course elementary. It depends on the individual character traits of a particular person. It can help someone. Someone actually practices talking with himself through notes in a diary. And usually such people claim that this is a good way to find themselves and analyze themselves.
There are people who in difficult moments perceive only speech. They need to see and listen, preferably a person who will help them in such a situation. Here, notes will not help.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
I took notes on the work. Solely in order to plan tasks or find a connection between tasks in a specific work day. For a while it was convenient for me. But for a long time I did not save such notes. Usually I got rid of them right after the list of tasks was completed.
My opinion is that it is a great way of improving productivity. You need to make yourself more disciplined to keep on writing those notes and obey them but in the end it is all worth it. After some time it should become a heatlhy habit. I use notes very often and I am very happy with the result.
2. Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
Absolutely. When you have a list of things that you need to do and after completing each you get to cross it from the list it is a huge satisfaction behind it. Many people feel down because they think that their life is a mess and such notes are very useful when it comes to putting things in order. When you only think about things you have to do they become overwhelming but when you write them down they seem managable.
3. Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
As I have earlier said I've been taking notes throughout my life and they have always been useful and helpful. Many times they actually made things possible because without them I wouldn't be able to wrap my head around everything that is left to be done. Productivity is the second thing - when time is a key factor there is nothing better to do than a list with a proper order. Write it down and get to work.
I don't like to take lecture notes, but when I learn and solve problems myself, I like to do it. This allowed me to quickly repeat the thought process that accompanied me at the time of learning and thus assimilate it.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
In the context of the diary I do not know because I have never done such remedies and I probably would not have patience. I'd rather think about and spread the problem into deeds in my head than write it down. In the case of any calendars or letters to do, I never did anything like that, I relied on memory.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
As I wrote earlier, the notes allow me to recreate the thought process. Thanks to this, if I solved a problem for the first time, it will be much easier the second time.
2.I think it will help you to be more organized, but it hardly will helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down.
3.Yes, I have such colored stickers that I stick on my wall above the table and write on them different tasks that need to be done. Thus, I always have before my eyes all the tasks that I have to do. For example, one of those stickers has the following inscription: "LEK >=6 comments".
I do like tacking notes, it's made me think clear and don't forget something useful.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
In some kind, yes. It helps to plan and organise life and even though look at it from different angle, more constructive and soberly.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Yes, I've already told in wich way.
After reading your presentation, I realized that it was a really great idea, and although I used to think about it, it went out of my mind. I think taking notes has many benefits, unfortunately I think I'm too lazy to do it.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I think this is a good method of self-therapy, as you mentioned in the presentation. Daily rubbing with your thoughts allows you to draw many conclusions and move forward with your life. We know each other best and talking to ourselves can bring a lot to our lives, especially in times of crisis.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Unfortunately I have never tried this method because as I mentioned I am too lazy and too disorganized.
2. I don’t see any relation between taking notes and problems in life. Most of my notes concern lots on unimportant things that I don’t need to keep in my mind. When I have very important things to do, I’m just focused on remembering it.
3. Yes, as I mentioned before I do it all the time. It helps me to get focused on more important things than for example grocery list.
2. I'm not sure if it can help you when you're feeling down, but like I already stated, writing things down helps managing our life and this alone may have good effect on us.
3. Yes. It's easier to remember important dates or motivate yourself to sit to work, if we for example do a checklist with tasks to do and see that it's not even touched yet.
2. Just taking such notes would irritate me a lot, so it wouldn't help me.
3. No, I haven't. It's not for me.
1. What is your opinion on taking notes?
When it comes to notes considering learning new things, especially when you are a “visual learner” helps concentrate, learn faster and focus only on crucial information. It’s vital to do them by hand, as it works better for our brain to process the information we are writing down.
When it comes to daily routine notes, there is something called “morning pages” and it’s quite popular custom. It’s this concept in which you spend around 1 hour during the day to write down your stream of thoughts (around 3 A4 pages). Letting go of all your ideas, thoughts, associations is crucial during this exercise. You can write down even irrelevant phrases and sentences. Which during the reading (after about 2-3 months) can be quite surprising. Thanks to that you let some steam of your brain, you let go of thoughts that you sometimes had no idea existed and help your brain process actual information and facts. It’s very useful, yet time consuming habit, so as much as I recommend it, I don’t think it’s for everyone. It’s easy to forget about doing it on the daily basis and let go after few days.
2. Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I think it helps arrange thoughts and focus on important things, it can help to point out all the problems and worries, and let go of all the bad, negative emotions.
3. Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
I actually did. As I tend to overthink it’s good to sometimes let go off the steam and let my brain rest for a while. I don’t do this on a daily basis, but when I’m overwhelmed with emotions, I like to write some kind of a letter to myself, and then read it after few days to verify if my emotions were true, and if they are still present.
2. I don't think it helps as much as we think. Notes are there just to help our memory not to overflow it.
3. I tried to do it, but I couldn't utilise them as good as some people do, and I keep forgetting to make them on a regular basis.
2. Yes I think it helps because if u write down all your responsibilities, and other stuff u need to do it is more likely u gonna make it. Such notes let u stay focused on your tasks and even if u feel down at some point the exact plan will help u for sure.
3. Yes I use notes in my work, for example I notice my tasks’ progress, some tips from older teamworkers. I also use notes to write down the time I have given up to each task, I need that because after my day work I need to register it in some system. Moreover my notes often are very useful source of information for others employees of the company I work for, I describe how to run programs I made or how to migrate it to another environment.
2. No, I don’t.
3. Yes, I have. I toke nots after training, because I had a problem to remember all my trainings. So, it helps me to order my trening plan.
It's commonly used by everyone and I do so as well. Whenever you need to remember some information quickly you may simply use sticky notes or some note application.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I think so, because writing is kind of expressing form of feelings. Authors write books with some feeling, inspiration and motivation. I think same method can be used here.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Yes many times, and it was very helpful. I always carry with myself notes because it remembers me things I have to do.
2. Yes, I think it can help, but only if the person himself will want it.
3. Yes, I'm taking notes. I used to write down my dreams. I was just wondering what I was dreaming until I forgot it. Also, I often make notes when I come up with an idea. I also have a calendar on my wall where I write down what I need to do for each day.
2. Yes, I'd say that taking notes is like talking with myself.
3. Yes, I try to take notes when I come up with an idea on something or I need to remember about something.
if I want to learn a topic very quickly, I learn faster by taking notes.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I do not think so. Taking notes only makes me learn what I want to learn faster and more powerfully. I don't think it'il help emotionally.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Yes I explained above, I guess I don't need to write it again :)
2. I think it can help when you make a grocery list. It's helpful when you write down your tasks to manage what you need to do. Sometimes it's better to write down your thoughts about something to understand that better or organize your knowledge. But I don't think that making some sort of personal diary will help to "take control over your life" or make you better in any sense (but maybe you will become a better writer).
3. I make notes every couple of days when making a grocery list or write down my tasks at a to-do list and it helps me a lot. But as mentioned above I won't make a personal diary as I can't find any reasons to do it.
2. There are a lot of good reasons for keeping a diary. But in truth, I never kept a diary, so I can't say for sure that it will really help, and it also depends on person.
3. As I said before, no. But I would like to start making more notes.
2)I never tried to use notes that way, so I have to ways to prove or disprove that claim. But I don't have a hard time believing that it can indeed help someone to sort his or her thoughts out and hence manage to achieve inner peace.
3)Yes, I do it very often. Generally speaking, I tend only to write down some general topics or ideas which would let me restore my thought process later when I would need to return and continue working on it.
I write to do lists and setting up notifications, it helps me a lot, as there is so much to do that usually a forget something that I should do. Also if I have some difficult task, taking a step by stem notes helps me to find the solution. But I don't white something like "my life diary", I can analyze what I did right or wrong without writing it down.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
As I said, everyday diary doesn't give you a control over your life, it is just a statement of fact, which doesn't make effect on anything.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
I have tried to take notes of my life, but it was too boring.
I think it is helpful. It helps to clear your mind and to make your goals more clearly. It shows how are you progressing and lower everyday stress.
Do you think it helps to take control over your life when you are feeling down?
I am not sure about taking control of my life, but I think it helps to clarify what is going on. It boosts creativity and improves overall productivity. As well as it helps to see, what have you done already and what still has to be done? When you write your thought on a paper/phone it is better, that simply have it in our mind.
Have you ever tried to take notes and if so did it help you in some way?
Yes, I am currently trying to take notes every day. Unfortunately, I cannot achieve this every day, but it helps me a lot. I feel better the next day after I write down my thoughts. I cannot explain how it is working, but it helps me and I feel better, more productive and more concrete.