Make every piece of information you record count. Dumping all
the information and notes you find and organizing them later
means that you’ve sifted through the information twice. This is
a waste of your time and doubles the amount of effort required
to get to the information that you really want to keep and
tremendously hard to sift through when you need to find that
nugget of information that makes sense.  Here’s a typical
scenario. When listening to a lecture, talk or class; it’s not
uncommon to see someone with a dictaphone recording the whole
talk. You may think this is a great idea because then they will
have all the information stored and can go back and listen to
the entire talk again. Not so, most likely they will listen back
to the recording and make notes or lists from the talk. They are
effectively summarizing it and editing out the information. But
they could have done this the first time round. They are
repeating an exercise they could have performed initially when
they first heard the talk.  Wha