I don’t tend to colour code my actual notes because it takes far too long so insteadI colour code any annotations to notes, articles, or piecces of work that I do. 

These are some notes that I’ve been annotating this week. I typically use my highlighter for any key points, including things like definitions. Other than that this is my general colour coding scheme. Obviously, it’s designed for psychology but you can design a colour code scheme for anything.

I’ve been using this scheme (or at least a variant of it) for about 4 years now so it’s become second nature for me to associate those colours with those themes.

I tend to use my orange highlighter for theories because they tend to take up a lot of space and its’s really the best way to annotate them. I also use page markers and tabs to point to key ideas or thoughts.