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The Best Ways to Annotate When Reading
Annotating your textbooks or other study materials is a great way to help you retain what they’re saying—it forces you to read critically and pay attention. Unfortunately, if you don’t do it right, you’re not going to get as many benefits as you should. Here are the right (and wrong) ways to annotate. Do use…
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How to Quit ‘Revenge Spending’
With the never-ending prospect of a recession looming, it seems the one true certainty is that we all need to make peace with living with uncertainty. But uncertainty breeds anxiety. At the onset of the pandemic, many of us responded to our anxieties by cutting back on spending. But as time as passed, that restrictive…
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Stop Using the iOS Highlighter to Hide Personal Info in Your Photos
You shouldn’t follow every piece of TikTok advice that passes through your feed, but this recent tech tip making the rounds is worth heeding: Don’t use the iOS highlighter pen to block important information in screenshots and other images.
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Rein vs. Reign, and Other Tricky Homophones You’re Mixing Up All the Time
Homophones are words that sound alike but have different meanings, and usually different spellings. Some are easy to distinguish (plane and plain, flower and flour — though I still pause and reflect every time I need to write “cauliflower”) and some are harder. Here, we’ll focus on the trickier ones people easily get tripped up…