My Favourite Note-Taking App for Students - Notion

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In this video, I explain my method for note taking using Notion to help understand, remember and organise my studying. And there’s a cheeky surprise in store if you watch till the end :) Enjoy!

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[jeremywong]

if anyone's wondering, notion is free now for personal.

[uchihaavenger]

This app just changed the game for me. Literally has EVERYTHING I needed AND I can sync it to my phone and study on the go without carrying my I'm so excited to take notes all of a sudden. I wish I had this in first year.

[squishytofuu]

I used active recall, spaced repetition and spreadsheet during the past semester and I got an A for final exam in my first year of medical school. Thank you so much Dr. Ali! 🙏🏻🙂

[LaMissBoutique]

Creating questions instead of taking notes during a lecture has just changed my life. Thanks Ali :)

[vishalam]

I was ready to say it along with him....
1) Active Recall
2) Spaced Repetition

[BigWiggley]

When you’re taking notes in Notion on how to take notes in Notion

[catrinamaravilla]

When he explained how to properly use cornell notes...I was mind blown! In my 2 years of education in the Philippines and 11 years in the United States, no teacher has been able to properly explain how to use cornell notes. It was explained as a form of note taking but with questions you might have if you don't understand something or are curious about something. It was never explained as a form of taking notes for active recall. I am genuinely in disbelief that I haven't know for this long and have been missing out on such an effective form of note taking. The whole video was very useful for a student willing to learn new ways to effectively learn new topics and am always very greatful for Ali sharing his knowledge. It has helped me a lot as a new college student and I am looking forward to learning more on how to be more productive and how to apply to my life, new forms of learning.

[stefandesu]

In this video: Watch Ali mess up his Notion content for the sake for demonstration.

[SmileWithSola]

love how he was taking notes on 50 shades of grey 😂0:55

[jewelbency]

Guys at notion made the app free for personal use now. Great people!!

[debarghabhadury]

Girl: Tell me those 3 magical words!
Ali: ACTIVE RECALL WORKS!

[jeremiahmushtaq]

Three things:

1. The colour of that t-shirt with the vibe of the room just makes the video so nice and cozy. Saw it on your insta as well and that colour is just sick

2. I was wondering how you would go about using the the traffic light system in the retrospective revision timetable in notion. So, the whole emoji thing is really cool and much more fun than adding colours in google sheets.

3. Loving the Harry Potter references. Ron’s description literally made me lol. Hope u do another “the science of Harry Potter” video

[ushabhatnagar]

Can you make an episode on essentials of finance that every student should know?

[maliecollins]

I do enjoy Notion quite a bit, the nested look of everything is so clean and you don't have to stop to select all of the features--you can use shortcuts as you go for just about every single font color, quotation, callout, toggle, etc. The only downside is the lack of support for handwriting, so I'm still split between OneNote and Notion. Trying to make them work together!

[Jsearreaza]

I started using Notion 3 months ago to organize my online business and med school. It's amazing! Thanks Ali!

[FatherTime]

Wish we had these tools in my university days. In this era of tech, if you're a puntual and attentive student with a good note taking ethic, you can organize your college notes and make them into different textbooks. Learning is more fun today.

[thomashaythornthwaite]

With your notes with the sub-headings and toggles, you can type /contents to add a contents list at the top of the page, and you can click various headings in the list to jump you to that point in the notes.
Not sure if you knew about this, but it makes navigating bigger notes pages a lot quicker

[saumyatiwari]

Okay so I came to learn how to effectively use notion and am going back with this amazingly powerful technique to make notes and use them for memorization too. I am blown. Also I noticed you taking notes from 50 shades of grey so XD, take a bow, sir. A job so well done!!

[JazzSingh]

I used the active recall method for my chemistry mock and managed to finesse an A haha, Ali you’re a legend 🙏

[ma.angelica]

Ali makes me realize I wasted my college years on poor studying strategies