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Stop Taking Notes the Old Way: Use Questions to Strengthen Your Knowledge Acquisition

The question/answer model is the key to streamlining the learning

Luca Vettor, The Note Strategist
6 min readJan 21, 2025
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Whatever you want to learn, you will only reach your goal after writing tons of notes. Students know it well, as do all knowledge professionals.

Those who take notes know that the most destructive way is to transcribe the source of the learned information. But what is an adequate method?

Although no recipe is suitable for everyone, I want to share with you the approach that is the most widely likely to function for all human brains.

The dialogue between questions and answers is the structure we have always used to connect information. Since early childhood, we have been used to manifesting our will through questions. Whether it is a primary request—such as the request for affection and protection—or a more elaborate request—such as asking for the rules of a game—the question is the form in which we’ve been expressing ourselves from the moment we began to master the language.

Taking notes is rooted in the original question/answer structure, which is the key point for my method of successful note-taking.

The Problem with Traditional Note-Taking

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Luca Vettor, The Note Strategist
Luca Vettor, The Note Strategist

Written by Luca Vettor, The Note Strategist

Life is too good to forget without understanding! Many small, humble, and well-organized notes make the difference. Let's learn to take notes together!

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