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I'm not saying I want a copy of a cheat sheet or anything. I'm just curious on the font sizes you guys use, what info you integrate. Other things regarding cheat sheets.

I use transparent and color coded text boxed with size 4 font. I also try to make images as small as possible by sharpening them first so it saves space and ink.

I like using transparent text boxes, and I recently changed mine to size 4 font. The nice thing about text boxes is that you can constantly resize them and its easy to format all the information just the way you like it. I also use Times New Roman and Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Word is the superior... *spits on google docs*

I just type stuff in and if it doesn't fit, I make the font smaller. (Of course, organizing the info always helps.) Also, I use Times New Roman/Georgia just because they look pretty.

Size three font, arial narrow. The most narrow font in the smallest size that I can read (and that I think my printer can print) to allow for the most information on the cheat sheet. I usually use three columns to make the information readable (not stretching all the way across the page). As for images, I use lots of them on the back of my cheat sheet to cover up the fact that I don't have enough information, but for a good team, you want to minimize the amount of images to save more space and make the necessary images as small as possible.

I use times New Roman 6 size font (I think? Whatever the smallest on docs is) too be honest I'd rather use word but sharing with partner is really nice and I don't have a updated word at home, so all the work would have to be done at school. Generally I make 2-3 cheat sheets for the event, a beginning one where I just randomly stack in random information that is extremely disorganized, a regionals cheat sheet and a state/invy cheat sheet where the rules are more broad, but thier very similar (more of make a copy and editing it). The doc is more organized and works well for me but tbh is still kinda messy where my partner have taken my info and done a complete reformat. I try not to overuse pictures (too large and sometimes docs glitches while printing) and usually I leave a bit of space if I can to write some stuff in last second (our school almost always goes to comps a day early and we get significant study time)

Edit: Also the 0 margins Well it worked when I printed 0 margins so I stuck with it
Edit 2: This is mainly for matsci, a 2 sheet event. I've done single sheet before and generally with single sheet I'm just more selective on information

Size 3.5 Arial Narrow
Text-boxes in Word
0.17 boundaries
Black and Red - not a fan of multicolor personally except for the false color section in my remote cheat sheet

I never really felt that note sheets were that important, for things like Remote Sensing I need constants and formulas because I'm too lazy to memorize them but I never really needed to go to as many lengths as everyone else seems to have to fit things in. I just stick to Google docs because the advantage of my partner having access to everything I do outweighs the larger font size - if I really needed to, I could always screenshot some of the text and shrink the image of the text smaller, but I don't, whereas there have definitely been problems with Word where somebody edits a version which is not the most recent version emailed to them and everything is a mess. And my printer can't do margins that are super tiny so we have that extra space and handwrite things if necessary. I also really like having my images in line with the text rather than collaged because it makes changing the image organisation so much easier - and I tend to go for several pages of images, with Remote especially, since they increased the page limit this year but you don't really need much information for that event, we just had samples of every sort of satellite image, labelled, organised, whatever, to make ID easier. And then in terms of color, I think I have a highlight color for definitions of terms, and then another for like headings of collections of terms, and if I need superheadings on that then I'll use another color, etc, but they're all the palest versions of whatever hue because really strong color highlights are annoying.

The smallest on gdocs is size 6 unfortunately, but you have to download it anyway to print, so you might as well just open up your favorite text processor at that point and make the font size smaller.

(As for the importance of note sheets, I would not want to go through every bacterium on my notesheet and remember if it's Gram positive or negative or go through my dynamic planet notesheet and commit the geologic timeline to memory, including dates, although yes, the fundamentals should definitely be committed to memory.)

As a side note, I should probably memorize that geologic timeline at some point...

UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:The smallest on gdocs is size 6 unfortunately, but you have to download it anyway to print, so you might as well just open up your favorite text processor at that point and make the font size smaller.

I guess if you are soloing, then Word is the way to go, but I still prefer Google Docs because of the far superior collaboration capabilities it has.