Law school generates an absurd amount of paper: case briefs, class notes, hypos, supplements, group study threads. The students who stay sane are not the ones with the fanciest system — they are the ones with a consistent one.
One home per class
Every note for Torts lives with Torts. Not some in a notebook, some in a Google Doc and some in email. Pick one place per class and put everything there: reading notes, class notes, professor asides, and the questions you want to ask at office hours. When exam season comes, you review one container, not six — and turning those notes into a law school outline becomes much easier.
Separate reading notes from class notes
Reading notes capture what the case says; class notes capture what your professor thinks about it. The second is far more valuable. Keep them distinct — many students title class notes with the date and topic, and link them back to the reading they discuss.
Write down the why, not just the what
When a professor spends twenty minutes on a hypothetical, the hypothetical itself matters less than why they chose it. Note what issue it was probing and what answer satisfied them. Those asides are exam clues.
Review within a week
A note you never reread is dead weight. Spend ten minutes each weekend skimming the week's notes and marking anything confusing. That small loop keeps the material warm (and when you are ready to test yourself, you can make flashcards and quizzes from your notes) and tells you what to clarify before it compounds.
Let structure emerge from your class
You do not need to invent an organizational scheme — your syllabus already provides one. Mirror it. In Saul, notes file themselves under each class for exactly this reason, and you can turn any AI answer into a note without breaking that structure.