Color roles

Give every color one job and write that job down. Instead of highlighting whatever looks important today, decide in advance what blue means, what red means, and use them the same way on every page.

Give every color one job and write that job down. Instead of highlighting whatever looks important today, decide in advance what blue means, what red means, and use them the same way on every page.

Example

In your chemistry notes you fix three colors: blue for reactants, red for products, green for anything measured in the lab. Now a glance at any page shows what is given versus what you solved for, without reading a word.