Strategy: OneNote for creating notes for revision
8 Keywords: Onenote, One Note, Notes, Revision, Equations, Equation, Remembering, Memory
"When making revision notes, I always try to start with condensing course lecture material into manageable sections. This involves going through the original lecture notes, along with any additional notes that I have made, and typing a combination of them up as key points. I have found that Microsoft OneNote is really useful for this, as it allows the notes to be organised easily, and also has a "clip" tool so that when there is a large image, or complicated looking formula in a lecture slide, it is easy to select and copy straight into my notes. This lets me filter out some of the less important material from the lecture slides, but also copy the really important parts exactly into my notes.
Notes can be organised into sections and subsections, so I tend to have one section for each year of my course, with subsections for each semester. Within these, I have more subsections for each module in that semester, into which I have each page of notes for that topic.
The only problem is writing in equations and then I tend to combine text and use the pen tool to add bits onto the text to make it look like what I need!"
Tip
Use Microsoft Equation Editor for adding equations to OneNote. Create a shortcut for Equation Editor on your desktop or start menu. The path may be "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\EQNEDT32.EXE" but check this is correct on your computer. Write the equation and then copy and paste into OneNote as a picture. (tip taken from a Google Group message)



