"Have a mindmap with the answers to all the questions they might ask." Really loved this piece of advice and highly recommend. It's something I always do befor

"Have a mindmap with the answers to all the questions they might ask." Really loved this piece of advice and highly recommend. It's something I always do before an interview/presentation/important talk. 1) As Alex mentions, this is FAR more useful in the moment than a list of bullet points or the like. 2) Like a lot of note-taking, I find that the act of thinking about and creating the mindmap has advantages in and of itself. Often the act of carefully creating it means that I don't actually need to refer to it later. I personally find this with a lot of note taking. I spend a lot of time carefully taking notes - generally a bunch of notes, comments and citations connected by a bunch of lines in different colored inks, kind of a mix of "traditional" note taking and a bit of a mindmap. The time I spend really thinking about how to best present and relate all the ideas on a single page often leads to internalizing the content so well that I never really need the notes unless I'm coming back months later.