'Not Mac-Specific' Category
Cornell Notetaking Method
Some time ago a Mac Law Students reader mentioned the Cornell Method, which is a special way of organizing and taking notes. It is designed to help students through a six-step process: Record, Reduce, Recite, Reflect, Review, and Recapitulate. I haven’t used the technique but I am curious about it.
Circus Ponies Notebook supports Cornell Method [...]FileMaker Campus Productivity Kit
I have a soft spot in my heart for FileMaker Pro. It’s a flexible, easy to use, and surprisingly powerful cross-platform database application that does many things well. For years I’ve used FMP to handle a wide variety of tasks, but since I’ve been in law school I haven’t come across many uses for it. [...]
Taking Notes in Class
There’s an excellent thread at 43 Folders discussing the best method for taking notes in class (not methodology, as an astute commenter observed). There is plenty of discussion about which Mac note-taking app is best, which online note-taking service has been overlooked, and so on. But more importantly, the meta discussion is really about whether [...]
Concentrate!
The ever-helpful Merlin Mann links to an excellent concentration primer written by Munha Lee at the University of Kent (note link to PDF version in the upper right quadrant of the page). It focuses on how to improve your concentration and study more effectively. Merlin also links to a humorous and dead-on piece by Paul [...]
Is Law School (in the U.S.) Worth It?
Professor David Randall, a lawyer who teaches at Boston University’s School of Management, has some thought-provoking posts about the glut of law school graduates in the United States. They are, in order of appearance:
Not Covered by LSAT Prep
Legal Careers
To Be* or Not to Be*I commented on the first of these posts, and I’m glad [...]