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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by jodubs » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:37 am

I am curious to hear some more opinions on this..

Would you be more encouraged to post outlines if you didn't have to identify school/professor?
Would you be less encouraged using an outline not tailored to your professor?
Would posting anonymously change your opinion at all?

As a side note, I've added the ability to browse by class, professor or school.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by Aqualibrium » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:47 am

jodubs wrote:I am curious to hear some more opinions on this..

Would you be more encouraged to post outlines if you didn't have to identify school/professor?
Would you be less encouraged using an outline not tailored to your professor?
Would posting anonymously change your opinion at all?

As a side note, I've added the ability to browse by class, professor or school.

I think they should all be posted by book. No school, no professor. Just my opinion though. The professor school thing is helpful, but my argument is the same as with the grade thing. The outline should just be a base...

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by SilverE2 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:59 am

Aqualibrium wrote:
jodubs wrote:I am curious to hear some more opinions on this..

Would you be more encouraged to post outlines if you didn't have to identify school/professor?
Would you be less encouraged using an outline not tailored to your professor?
Would posting anonymously change your opinion at all?

As a side note, I've added the ability to browse by class, professor or school.

I think they should all be posted by book. No school, no professor. Just my opinion though. The professor school thing is helpful, but my argument is the same as with the grade thing. The outline should just be a base...
But what material the professors choose to focus on is so variable...outlines not keyed to particular professors would be about as useful as buying a commercial outline. Wouldn't we want this to be more useful than that?

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by Aqualibrium » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:34 am

SilverE2 wrote:
Aqualibrium wrote:
jodubs wrote:I am curious to hear some more opinions on this..

Would you be more encouraged to post outlines if you didn't have to identify school/professor?
Would you be less encouraged using an outline not tailored to your professor?
Would posting anonymously change your opinion at all?

As a side note, I've added the ability to browse by class, professor or school.

I think they should all be posted by book. No school, no professor. Just my opinion though. The professor school thing is helpful, but my argument is the same as with the grade thing. The outline should just be a base...
But what material the professors choose to focus on is so variable...outlines not keyed to particular professors would be about as useful as buying a commercial outline. Wouldn't we want this to be more useful than that?

I agree and disagree. With outlines keyed to a specific book, all the basic info is there. For example, I got a health law outline from outline depot that was keyed to the book my professor used, but not to my professor (this professor had never even taught before). The outline covered every chapter of the book except one. My professor didn't cover one of the chapters that the outline covered, and also covered one of the chapters that the outline didn't cover. I simply took notes in comment boxes for each heading and case in the outline to emphasize what the slant my professor took on things. My weekly review entailed me working my comments into the outline itself. I removed the stuff that we didn't need, added the stuff that needed to be. Probably saved myself 60+ hours of work by having something that was a base of everything that could possibly be covered in that book, and ended up with a finished product that was uniquely my own.

When an outline covers the book, there just isn't that far your professor can go away from there. Anything he adds or takes away can easily be accounted for by you. You aren't supposed to take the outline, unedited into an exam with you (in fact, many schools outright ban this in their honor codes). It's not supposed to be something you can just read over and know the whole class from without paying attention to your professor for yourself. That's why I think it's unnecessary to have more than a designation of what book the outline follows. A good outline covers each case, note cases,and problems in a book with sufficient detail (but not too much) so as to give you a solid base to work from.

Maybe make the prof and school optional?

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by Lycurgus » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:47 am

I like what you are doing here and look forward to using and contributing.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by Heartford » Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:35 am

Re: the privacy issue I raised- I might feel more comfortable submitting an outline with my school and professor info if I went to a school like GULC, NU, or Fordham where there are a fair amount of TLSers. It would be easier to remain anon if I weren't (probably) the only one from my school uploading stuff.

So I guess what I'm saying is maybe I'm in the minority in being afraid that professors/classmates/school staff would identify me. I certainly understand why having school and professor info attached to each outline would make them more useful.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by crumpetsandtea » Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:43 pm

Awesome.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by brickman » Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:37 pm

bump because it's the last great hope.

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Post by tipler4213 » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:00 pm

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by Law Sauce » Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:46 pm

This is looking great

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by Bronte » Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:00 am

Very impressive. I uploaded all my outlines. However, they're not showing up under "My Account," where it still says zero submissions. However, they are showing up here: --LinkRemoved--.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by spleenworship » Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:51 pm

lzyovrachievr wrote:Cool idea, thanks.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by SisyphusHappy » Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:34 am

This is wonderful. I'll be sharing after this semester.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by jodubs » Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:02 pm

Thanks for all the recent submissions. Having not checked the page in a while due to orientation, I was about to write it off until I just now saw a bunch of submissions from some TLS users. Like I said earlier, this is a community resource and if there are any features you all want added or changed (within reason), let me know and I'll try to work it out.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by vpintz » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:18 pm

I'm a 0L, but I'm definitely bookmarking the site for future reference. Awesome idea. :]

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by morris248 » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:57 pm

Good site. Keep it up.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by dood » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:59 pm

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by fingersxd » Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:34 pm

This is money. Thanks! I'll be sure to post when I've finished my own.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by spleenworship » Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:09 am

fingersxd wrote:This is money. Thanks! I'll be sure to post when I've finished my own.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by itsirtou » Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:21 am

Nice! I'll post all my outlines from 1L year. Cool resource.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by jodubs » Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:00 am

Looks like I've been 'Mr Skinned'

Anyway.. site is down while webhost migrates servers. Should be back up by tomorrow I'd imagine.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by Bronte » Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:41 am

jodubs wrote:
Looks like I've been 'Mr Skinned'

Anyway.. site is down while webhost migrates servers. Should be back up by tomorrow I'd imagine.
Ilrg looks pretty TTT.

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Re: Website for sharing notes and outlines

Post by brickman » Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:22 am

let's see some more Epstein torts outlines, pahleez.

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