Ranking the BEST Productivity Methods | Tier List

Timestamps
0:38 Calendar Blocking
2:00 Highlighting
3:09 Practice Tests/Exams
3:56 Flashcards
4:52 Bullet Journaling
5:55 Typing your notes
7:06 Mindmaping
8:01 Outlining
9:01 Pomodoro Technique
10:20 Cornell Method

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[DemetriPanici]

*"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson*

[onestepatatime]

highlighting on its own is not a great study method as you said, but I find that it's an absolutely essential first step in my studying process as a humanities student. since I have to do a lot of reading it's crucial to filter out the important things and highlighting accomplishes exactly that.

[madhavieimbulana]

I really agree with Mariana on the flashcard method! It takes a LOT of time to create flashcards so it isn't the best.
But on typing your notes I honestly prefer writing because studies have shown that writing a note is way better to remember concepts on that topic, but if typing is better well that's really good!
I also don't like Pomodoro's because I can focus for 50 minutes and 10
minutes break!

[thecsolutions]

Highlighting has worked wonderfully for me. It's helped me recall information based on color. In law I used green for case law names and yellow for methodology etc

[rebeccaw]

I do Outlining in Notion as my ‘Processing’ of weekly learning materials. But highlighting and typing notes certainly support this method throughout each week. And study blocking. I still use a bullet journal as well… sometimes the art of brain dumping to the page helps me mentally prepare for my day.

[yasnyne]

I study in the UK and all the teachers no PowerPoint and articles are in the VLE. Last trimester I used put everything in Ms word, print and take notes in class. I have usually 2 subjects per trimester all the PowerPoint for one of the subjects are already.
This trimester I would like to use things more digitally on iPad. Mariana your channel have a game changer for me. Thank you so much. Feliz ano novo

[zonkerzoe]

While studying accounting, reviewing notes while practicing and quizzing myself worked really well for initially studying. Then once I kinda got the topics, I made review sheets with blocked summaries for each concept, and mind maps for processes and connected concepts. Really helped me to see how each concept connected and what parts of processes were similar but with differing terms.

[ImprovementGang]

A replacement of the Pomodoro technique is the 52/17 rule; I find it to be more engaging in the long run. As well, you can quickly enhance your understanding of notes by adding emojis that could represent the topic. (windows key + period key brings emoji menu in Windows).

[emielou]

I loved flashcards when I was studying law. I would out Acts on one side and then the principle on the opposite. It really helped me before exams:)

[kimberleyhunter]

I like to time my study sessions, but I don't do strict Pomodoros. I usually do one fifty minute session, a ten minute break, another fifty minute session, then about an hour break, then I repeat it once more. I was a Pomodoro purist at one point, but I found I kept "losing" my place of where I was in the Pomodoro session. Was I on my third twenty-five minute study session, or my fourth? I tried to keep track by making marks on a post-it note with a pencil; it didn't work because I kept losing the post-it note. The way I break up my study sessions now is much easier.

[xzh]

I use highlighting for marking information(arguments, key quotes etc.) so that I can quickly form my personal outline of an article. This works well for readings and writings but is certainly not an exam strategy.

[jessplansandwrites]

Potentially unpopular take: I don't think highlighting is supposed to be a study method at all. I think it's supposed to be a first-step research method - a way to process new information from a text you are first exposed to. So, say you want to find out what a determiner is according to various linguists, you'd go ahead and highlight sections from their textbooks and essays and then you'd go and summarize what their opinions are. After that, you'd write the reasons for your own opinion. What you might study later on are the summary or excerpt you made as well as your own arguments. What you highlighted isn't "all of x textbook that could be important for my test" - you'd likely highlight half the textbook; they're designed to contain hopefully all the important information on their subject, after all - but rather "all that answers the specific question(s) I had about a text/texts".

[Guguchina]

I personally love mind maps ot create an outline for an essay. It does take some thinking on going from mind map to an essay structure as mind maps often show the links between things, but its helpful to get all the ideas down in a way which there are natural connections

[shreya]

Thank you for the video
I have my exams coming up so this has been very helpful 👍🏻
Lots of love from India 🥰

[AhmetKaan]

*You can't always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you have to dare to do it because life is too short to wonder what could have been...*

[leggermentesara]

Nice video ☺ the only thing is that calendar blocking is a time management (productivity at most) method, not a study method. Same for pomodoro technique (borderline) and bullet journaling, so it's a bit confusing 🤷‍♀️

[AhmetKaan]

*"The person who wins, is the person who wants it the most."*

This changed my life.

[Sjudit]

I could NEVER get into bullet journals. It's just too minimal for me.
I feel like while handwriting during uni, I was forced to write things down my way, not write down every word, so already summarizing during the lesson, bcs noone could write as fast as the professor was talking. While typing, I feel like, I can 'shut off my brain' and not really pay attention.
I can remember pages visually, so I like highlighting, but I understand what you say that it becomes sometimes just the motion of highlighting, and not really focusing on the meaning of the text.

Mindmapping, Cornell: I always hear people say that it's so good, but it is the same for me as with flashcards, they take too long of a time to do. And even though I learn well visually, I am not a creative person and such tasks just annoy me.

I love pomodoro, but I need peer pressure in order to keep at it. But I don't use 25. I do the 45 minutes too. Also, I can't do more than 5 pomos on a day. It just becomes too much afterwards and I lose interest and feel like a slave. But if I had done 5 pomos every day at uni, I would have been a better student.

[MashupLibrary]

Thank you,
Can you share some tips to memories case laws, plz 😀

[Mai]

You're ranking both time management and study methods though, they're not the same.