I used a form of this system to take notes when I participated in the first cohort of Udacity's "Self-driving Car Engineer Nanodegree" a few years ago. I found

I used a form of this system to take notes when I participated in the first cohort of Udacity's "Self-driving Car Engineer Nanodegree" a few years ago. I found it very useful, and ended up filling about 3 notebooks (one sided) worth of notes for the effort. I say "form of the system", because I wasn't as formal with it, and didn't do the "bottom page summary" - but it still worked well for note taking; I think the very act of doing these notes "hands on" helped with deeper understanding and retaining of the material. On a side note - one other thing I learned from that class was to never again take a MOOC course on the first iteration; you are essentially the "guinea pig" experiment for beta testing it, and that can be a frustrating experience at times.