#color coded notes

Being gentle with color coding because sometimes I go too wild and can't read my notes later 🎨

hi, hello! so i’ve been having this idea for a while: i wanted to show you my color system method

at first it maybe doesn’t make a lot of sense because i don’t color code in the normal way, but i use colors in my notes as a way to find information more easily (and also remember stuff). i’m going to attempt to explain it:

before i start: i keep all my notes for one subject together because they’re all connected somehow. and i number all my pages. for example, all the pictures here are from my maths notes’ notebook, where i currently have notes from my intro course and my notes from the first semester math class (am i making sense? i hope so lmao). so they’re two separate classes but i keep their notes together. got it? ok.

first thing i do is select one (1) color for each subject. for the first few general subjects it doesn’t matter what color i use but i try to organize all the colors i’m going to use before i start writing the notes in some sort of plan so i know beforehand all the different “core” subjects i have (here i did my outline for the intro course). in this picture you can see two different subjects in two different colors: 

now that i have the core subjects in their respective colors, the fun begins: i connect the different subjects. how so? i use the colors, of course. i use the same colors for subjects with the same “core” (like, i use blue for coordinates in the plane so i also use blue for coordinates in the space) so when i go quickly through my notes i can easily know when i’m dealing with a subject “connected” to other. 

why tf do i do this? if i’m having trouble with something in a subject, i can go back to where i did something similar and reread definitions (for example) so i can understand the new thing. i also save time not writing the same definitions all the time and still have super complete notes.

i really hope i’m making sense here lol

here, have some more examples... my syllabus had vectors and matrix together so i made notes combining them but made sure to differentiate the definitions and content for both of them (vectors in bluish, matrix in lilac):

then, similarly, if i mention something in a subject but explain it fully in another, i make sure of leaving a color mark so i future me can see that and think “oh so the explanation for that is in that other color” and go to the correct section to fully understand all my stuff. 

and as you can see i also reference the number page where that correct section is so i don’t waste a lot of time flipping through the notes. because the number of colors i have is finite, you know, and sometimes i use the same colors for two unrelated subjects. i’m only human (or sometimes just bc i want to find quickly something specific in on section):

and that’s it?? i think? i hope i didn’t forget anything.

i know it may seem kinda messy and overcomplicated bUT maybe you’re like me and messy&overcomplicated works better for you too. you never know! 

let me now if you decide to give it a try and/or find it useful!! 

love, 

martie.

ps: sorry for the pictures’ quality i was impatient and couldn’t wait for the clouds to go away lmao

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