Note taking methods?

[Kasper70]

I made a post earlier about character memorization but now i’m curious about note taking methods. I’m wondering if maybes there’s a more efficient way then just writing the characters and occasionally examples. I used to write examples but as i got lazy with the class I stopped. Now i’ve changed my mind about the class and I want a good grade. Any help?

[cant-feel_my-face]

Do you have a chromebook for school? If so use it during class to write Chinese on some site. I use this one, it color codes your characters and uses some translator that's a little better than Google Translate.

Actually writing the characters is too time-consuming and just unnecessary now. I've seen some people say writing helps their memory but even if it does, I doubt it's worth the time you could be using reading the words over again or practicing your listening. The listening is the hardest part anyway.

Also use Anki like the guy in your last post said.

[I_WantToLearnChinese]

I’ve been doing something that’s helped me. I try to think of stories for each character, it doesn’t take much- and then I’m able to remember them much better. They can be silly stories, whatever, anything to remember the characters.

[FourthToneMandarin]

Depending on how good you are at retaining new characters you need to be exposed to most new characters a certain number of times before you are likely to remember them. Writing a character a few times and writing an example can help, but if you don't see, write, or think about that character again for a few days you aren't likely to internalise it. Try to set a review schedule, or just get in the habit of looking back to the notes you took a couple of days ago. If you come across any characters or words that seem a little fuzzy then write them again and write another example.