Improving Cornell Notes With Sketchnoting Techniques

I've always have used the Who, What, Where, When and Why (the first for W's) make it significant. In the margins, I draw a stick person for a "Who", glasses for the "What", a compass north arrow for "Where", a clock face represents the "When", finally an exclamation sketch symbol for "significance."

I'm literally screaming right now . You have no idea how I am happy for finding your channel . I've always used sketching in my notes, but I had no clue how to organize or make it work . Thank you for helping me !

If you are a teacher and you're watching this - I'M REALLY HAPPY YOU DO! It's really rare for teachers to want to be better at their work and actually help students learn. Teaching is not only about knowing your subject, but also knowing your students. 90% of teachers I know are tired of their work and they don't listen to us, they don't even try to explain something so everyone understands.

I've used this method for weeks and It really works efficiently and I've reduce the Time to study substantially.

I am a life-long learner and this is one of the best study techniques I've ever seen. I am off to look at your other videos. Thank you so much!!

I just came to this video by mistake and will apply every single concept to my work day. Excellent!

Very interesting. I'm going to start experimenting with these methods. I have all the degrees I'll ever need, but I keep reading and studying. We should always be a student.

Had to watch this for my HR course at my SUNY college and I have to say I LOVE LOVE LOVE this approach! I’m always drawing on my notes so this makes my doodling more tied in to what I’m learning — hopefully I have enough time while my professors are lecturing to be able to do this approach! Thank you for sharing!!!

Thank you so much for this! I already know the Cornell, but your method of sketching things into it is just awesome! I will never look at notetaking as a somewhat tiring pocess again! Good luck in your future videos!

The idea of changing verbal to visual is not only great for visual learning but also for young people with Autism and Learning disabilities. Thank you for the video. Love Cornell Note taking also it's great btw.

Simple, Clear and Concise. It just brings to live note taking and your way of taking notes makes it seem less daunting as a task and more appealing to look after. Thanks so much !

I'm a fourth year medical student at the moment and I've been in school for about... a bazillion years. Wish I'd discovered the Cornell thing mannnny moons ago. Cornell + Doodling= Great idea! Thank you!

Would love to see a video on how you've created your own icons/visual vocabulary...with specific examples. I'd like to expand my visual vocabulary for my notes too. Love your videos!

I've never had room on a page for icons or non-chart graphics. I have however, found the use of icon-like color assignments -- yellow for key points, blue for biographical information, green for historical information, &c. -- to quickly identify specific information to be the key to understanding my notes. I've also found that reviewing and rewriting/typing my notes after the fact to be extremely helpful. The review process allows me to add context and nuance (and complete sentences) to the notes and typing helps to remedy my horrible penmanship.

Hi Doug, Fellow teacher here.Our school requires (I agree) CN. I love how you make this more valuable, fun and creative. My students will be watching this tomorrow and I will link to this video from my website. Great job!!

Wow. This is huge. Thanks. You just encouraged me to read books with hard topics with out worrying about remembering them.

I love it I like combining things. Especially at home when rewrite my notes or studying to add notes and merging them.

love seeing the passion that drives others and in-turn helps us in what they share

I love this idea. I think it makes Cornell notes fun, personalized, and relevant to certain subjects. Thanks.

Look, I had watched many videos about note taking and none had stood out with me because they either focus on colors or focus on explaining the method. You had explained cornel method very well and provided your sketch method input + provided a great example. Thank you for this great video content! Very good teaching style of yours