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I attended undergrad there 25 years ago. didn't know this system existed!

I thought this thread was going to be about lecture notes that you used to be able to buy in case your own notes suck or you missed a bunch of lectures. Not sure if they still sell them though. (there was a specific name... if anyone here still remembers)

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Same. I bought the "takenotes" which were pretty good. Also I met my wife after asking to borrow her notes for a class. So I thoroughly approve of the Cornell Not Taking Notes system!

The referenced publication is from 2010. I went there too, more like 35 years ago. Maybe I would have done better if this sort of thing had been available back then.

Note that it's the 10th edition. I'm pretty sure the technique has been around since the 1950s. I certainly remember it from the 90s.

If that's the case it couldn't have been very well publicized, since I graduated from Cornell in 91 and never heard of it.

This lines up with roughly when this system suddenly took stranglehold at my local school district.

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