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When you take notes in class, you listen more carefully and think about what you learn. Your notes can help you study, revise, and remember information after class. That's why it is a good idea to spend some time re-writing your notes and making them clearer. When you do this, you think about the most important parts of the lesson. This helps you understand and remember more.
Research shows that taking notes by hand is better for learning than typing notes on a laptop. This is because your body uses more of its senses to write with a pen—your arm and fingers move, your eyes see the marks on the paper, you might even hear or smell the pen. Handwriting also lets you add lines, drawings, colors, or highlights to add meaning.
Another thing you can do with stationery is create little drawings to help you remember. For example, lots of people find it difficult to remember the difference between stationary (not moving) and stationery (pens, pencils, paper, etc).
Here's a little drawing I did to help me remember. Parked cars are stationAry and pens are stationEry!
In this blog post, I'll share some of my favorite stationery for note-taking.
1. Pencils
Pencils are so simple and so useful. You can erase them easily and they come in lots of different colors. Some of them don't even need a pencil sharpener—like these mechanical pencils:
2. Erasable Pens
Taking notes with a pen can end in messy mistakes. While errors are one of the best ways to learn, I still prefer to review notes that are tidy and look good. Erasable pens let you change examples and other important parts of your notes.
I love Pilot Frixion pens because they come in lots of different colors. You can also buy refills for them, so they can last forever and you can use less plastic!
They even have highlighters so you can color code your notes easily.
3. Neuland Refillable Pens
Neuland makes lots of cool pens. I love them because they are very high quality and you can refill them. Their FineOne Sketch has a lovely fineliner-style tip, which is perfect for handwriting. The FineOne Flex is wider and more like a felt-tip style pen, so it's great for thicker lines. The FineOne Art has a brush tip, which is great for highlighting or making more creative marks.
Neuland also makes refillable flip-chart and whiteboard markers in lots of different colors.
4. Fineliners
Fineliners are a style of pen that has a very fine (or thin) tip. They make your handwriting clear and sharp. I love these Bic ones because they come in lots of colors.
5. Multicolored pens
I like to have lots of color choices in my pencil case, but I don't always have enough space. These pens let you choose. I prefer small pens like this because I can write better with them. The larger ones with more color choices can be harder to write.
What is your stationery of choice? Do you have any favorites? How do you like to take notes? We'd love to know.
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