First Aid annotation Tips

[aspiringmd1015]

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Hey guys, just got my new FA, was wondering what tips you guys have to highlight/annotate my FA, I've heard different things like using different colored pens to associate particular sources with particular colors i.e. red color from u world. Any tips would be great, thanks!
p.s. Happy New years everyone!

 

[PL198]

I don't understand the colors thing. So it's basically qualifying how important something is when you annotate in? This seems foolish to me. I'd only put important things into my FA so why would I want to turn it into a rainbow of things of varying importance? I've heard upperclassmen who say they did that and it was a terrible idea. I'm not sure how the source matters. If you're going to put it into FA, it's for a reason.

 

[aspiringmd1015]

source would matter incase you want to refer back to that source for a more detailed description of whatever you were looking for in the first place

 

[Wavy Doctor]

personally, I use a black highlighter for the most crucial passages and HY points

 

[Ryuzaki]

I use one of the fine-point sharpie markers and use blue for uWorld, red for Kaplan and etc. for other qBanks.

 

[aspiringmd1015]

personally, I use a black highlighter for the most crucial passages and HY points

damn dude! your sarcasm is much appreciated, being a cool guy on forums are like..totally rad!

 

[seminoma]

I don't understand the colors thing. So it's basically qualifying how important something is when you annotate in? This seems foolish to me. I'd only put important things into my FA so why would I want to turn it into a rainbow of things of varying importance? I've heard upperclassmen who say they did that and it was a terrible idea. I'm not sure how the source matters. If you're going to put it into FA, it's for a reason.

I use different colors so I know what resource I got the info from, not necessarily to quantify one as better or more important than another.

 

[Transposony]

damn dude! your sarcasm is much appreciated, being a cool guy on forums are like..totally rad!

It's been done, maybe not exactly.

 

[Wavy Doctor]

damn dude! your sarcasm is much appreciated, being a cool guy on forums are like..totally rad!

well that's a peculiar response

reverse highlighting is used to mark the concepts you've already mastered

what a strange man you are

 

[aspiringmd1015]

well, frankly, my bad. Sounds stupid though

 

[PL198]

that's an interesting concept, do you guys worry about forgetting stuff that way? or maybe having like 2 separate files, where you black out one and not the other?