Cornell notes, made from your material

Name a lecture, a chapter or a topic. Winda writes Cornell notes on it: a cue for each block of notes, and a summary of the page. Cover the notes and answer the cues to test yourself.

Cornell notes

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Cornell notes on how memory works.
ExampleCornell notes on how memory works.

What you get

The cue column
A short question or a key term for each block of notes. A cue is something you can answer with the notes covered.
The notes column
Two to four short lines that answer each cue, in the order of the lecture or chapter.
The summary
Two or three sentences at the foot that say what the whole page comes to.

What the Cornell method is

The Cornell method is a way to lay out a page of notes. Walter Pauk, who taught study skills at Cornell University, described it in the 1950s. The page has three areas: a wide column for the notes, a narrow column beside it for cues, and a space at the foot for a summary.

In a lecture you write only in the notes column. Soon after, you read the notes and write a cue beside each block: the question that the block answers, or the term it explains. Then you write the summary in your own words. These two steps are where most of the learning happens, because you must decide what each part of the lecture was for.

To review, cover the notes column and answer each cue aloud or on paper, then uncover the notes and compare. This is active recall: you pull the answer from memory before you look at it. It takes longer than reading the page again, and you remember more of it.

Notes that Winda writes for you skip the first step, so do the last one yourself. Use the page as a self-test, change any cue that is too easy, and write the summary again in your own words when you know the material better.

How it works

  1. Say what it is about

    Name a topic, or add a PDF, a lecture video, an article or your own notes. With files, the result is written from them.

  2. Winda makes it

    The template sets the form, so you do not write a prompt. You choose the model that does the work: Claude, GPT, Gemini and others.

  3. Keep it and change it

    The result is saved in your project beside your files and chats. Ask for a change in the chat, or make flashcards and a quiz from the same material.

Questions

Yes. Add the YouTube lecture, the PDF or your own rough notes to a project and name the file in your message. The cues and notes follow the order of that material.

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