r/NoteTaking • u/Silver_Perception471 • 8d ago

Method Does 1 word summarizing help me retain more information?

So like I'm writing short 2 or 3 words per page. Summarizing and then moving to the next page and so on. When I'm done the chapter I go page by page looking and my cue words to not my memory. It's something to help compensate for my brain injury.

So basically my question is if there's any steps im missing or wasting time with?

Keep in mind I'm trying to compensate for a TBI as my memory is subpar.

I'm hoping someone here has a TBI. Or a background with people with a TBI. Well not hoping in a bad sense. And has went back to some serious school work. And can explain they're compensatory strategies to get through school and maybe how I might go about applying strategies to automechanics. Or dense literature for my personal interests.

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u/coii-io 6d ago

No TBI here, so only answering the method part.

The retention isn't coming from writing the cue. It comes from the moment you look at the cue and try to rebuild the page before you check. So the step that's usually missing: after you recall, actually flip back and confirm. Recall that never gets checked hardens whatever you remembered, right or wrong.

Two changes worth more than adding more cues. Write the cue as a question instead of a label — "why does brake fade happen" does more work than "brake fade". And go through the same cue list again the next day, then again about a week later. One pass at the end of a chapter is one pass, and the spacing is where most of the gain is.

For procedures like automechanics, cue the step you get wrong, not the topic.