Highlight Your Notes!

Why take notes at all?

Writing things down helps you organise your thoughts and gives you something to come back to later. Whether you're studying, working or just learning for fun, good notes make revision a lot less painful.

Why highlighting helps

A splash of colour makes key points easy to spot when you flip back through your notes. It works best as a signpost: a quick way to find the important bits, not a replacement for actually understanding them.

How to highlight well

• Go for keywords and main ideas. Highlight the concept, not the whole paragraph.
• Use a colour code. Yellow for definitions, green for examples, pink for dates. Pick a system and stick to it.
• Don't over-highlight. If everything is highlighted, nothing stands out.
• Mix it up. Pair highlighting with summaries, sticky notes, underlining or mind maps.

Make your desk a little more delicious

Our fries highlighters are off the menu for now, but there are plenty of other snacks for your study spot. Jot quick summaries on chocolate biscuit scented memo pads (yes, they really smell like dessert), clip your pages together with donut paper clips, and keep it all in a food pencil case.

See the whole spread in our Desk Bits collection. Happy studying!