The layout of notes on the page is very important, as it can considerably facilitate the recall of the information of the original. Ilg and Lambert argue that “students should … strive to develop a type of layout that carries meaning. The location on the page of a given abbreviation or sign should in itself convey some additional meaning (parallelism, precedence, subordination, anteriority-posteriority, cause-effect relations, origin-destination, active-passive). This is definitely more productive than an array of abstract symbols used regardless of their relative positioning.” [44:82].
It is obvious that the right layout of notes helps the interpreter pick up the chain of reasoning of the message to be reproduced in the target language.