Tom Krieglstein argues that notes from conferences sit useless unless you review them and turn insights into action. A Journal of Experimental Psychology study found that organizing notes into categories boosts recall by 40%.
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Take a look right here. This is just one page of notes from a conference that I attended. And there are actually five more pages of notes and information and knowledge that I gained from just this one conference. And I discovered that at every conference I go to, I gained so much good value. But the problem is information without action is useless. So we want to learn how to take that information and put it into action. The second tip is, once we carve out that time and we're going through these notes, we have to categorize it. In fact, the Journal of Experimental Psychology actually found that when people take their notes and categorize them into different buckets, it increases the chance of recall by 40%.