A realistic cadence for outlining across the semester

Advice says outline weekly. Nobody outlines weekly. The realistic cadence is a light touch every week, a real pass every three, and a full consolidation before reading week.

Weekly (10 minutes)

At the end of each week, open the outline and drop the week’s new rule statements under the topics they belong to. That’s it. No editing, no polishing. Ten minutes.

Every three weeks (an hour)

Sit down for an hour and turn the last three weeks of rule statements into a coherent narrative for each topic. Add the one hypo per topic that best illustrates the rule. Delete anything you’ve already forgotten and would rather not memorize.

Reading week (one long day)

The outline is 80% done. Spend one long day making it look like something you would want to review the morning of the exam: short, dense, and organized like the exam questions will be — by issue, not by case.

Scriba handles the mechanics. What it can’t do is make the judgments about which rules matter most and which hypos to keep. Those are the study.