<p>Demo: I have a (generally) excellent memory - my college nickname was “Rainman” - and I tended to remember almost everything that is in the most condensed version of my outlines. (If they were thirty pages, I would have twenty-nine pages of law stuffed into my brain. If they were eighty pages, I would have about seventy-eight or seventy-nine pages in my head.) </p>
<p>My outlines were also fact-heavy and explanation-heavy, which is helpful in exam time: “This case was predicated on this set of facts, for this reason, but does not apply here because…” </p>
<p>My outlines ended up getting passed around the school. Sometime during 3L year, someone came up to me and thanked me for them - “That was the only A I got during law school; I never went to class, but I read your outline five times before the final.”</p>