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Notes are everything that was said and nothing you thought.
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Take notes that help you think and that you will actually use.
A course on note-taking for work, study and reading. It covers what notes are for, how to capture in a way that supports thinking, and how to make notes you return to instead of archives you never open.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
My notes are either everything or nothing and I never look at them again. Teach me how to take notes that help me think and that I will actually use later.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Learning & memory
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- What do you take notes on: meetings, reading, lectures, or ideas?
- Do you write everything down, or nothing useful?
- Do you ever reread your notes?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You have thousands and use none
An archive nobody visits.
You remember meetings badly
And your notes do not help.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06What a note is for
Memory, thinking and action, and why one format cannot serve all three.
Own words
Why paraphrase beats transcription for understanding.
Meetings
Decisions, actions and open questions, not a transcript.
Reading and learning
Notes that build understanding, and the retrieval habit that makes them stick.
Organising
The minimum structure that keeps notes findable.
Returning
Reviews that turn notes into thinking.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Know what notes are for
Decide whether a note is to remember, to think, or to act.
Capture in your own words
Write notes that process rather than record.
Make them findable and useful
Organise just enough that you return to them.
Ideas this course corrects
Good notes are complete notes
Good notes are useful notes. Completeness is what makes them unread.
The tool matters most
The habit matters most. Paper and a plain text file both work.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course on note-taking for work, study and reading. It covers what notes are for, how to capture in a way that supports thinking, and how to make notes you return to instead of archives you never open. It sits under Learning & memory in the Life & growth part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
My notes are either everything or nothing and I never look at them again. Teach me how to take notes that help me think and that I will actually use later.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.