Legends

Write down, in ordinary words, what every symbol and arrow in your notation stands for, and keep that key visible beside the work. It is the decoder that lets you, or anyone else, read the compressed page months later without guessing.

Write down, in ordinary words, what every symbol and arrow in your notation stands for, and keep that key visible beside the work. It is the decoder that lets you, or anyone else, read the compressed page months later without guessing.

Example

In the corner of your chemistry notes you write: [A] = concentration of reactant A, in moles per liter; k = forward rate constant; solid arrow = causes; hollow arrow = becomes. Four lines that make 40 pages of symbols readable in January.