KS Methods. Skip to main content You are not a member of this wiki. Join now Dismiss guest Join | Help | Sign In Knowledge Sharing Tools and Methods Toolkit Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... Referencing - Section introduction. Critical Skills: Section Introduction. Taking Notes: Spider diagrams. Spider diagrams are useful because they allow you to think about the main idea that the book is exploring and then how the ideas are seen to be present in many parts of the book. In practice, a spider diagram for, say, notes on Wuthering Heights , might begin like this: Which of these note styles would be best for you? Try taking notes in different styles to test which are easiest to note down - and to read afterwards.