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Same, but I never tried. Back in school we were encouraged to take notes during lectures, but I found that if I was focused on note taking them I wouldn't take
by sippeangelo 5y ago
Same, but I never tried. Back in school we were encouraged to take notes during lectures, but I found that if I was focused on note taking them I wouldn't take in any of what was presented to me, and my notes would be useless. No note taking software even comes close to how my brain works either. Of the few notes I've actually taken I've never gone back to read them again. Sure, I will forget stuff, but I feel like in most instances I can just go back and relearn them faster than the time I would have wasted on taking notes, categorizing them and making them searchable.
- kragen 5y agoYeah, I take lots of notes (https://dercuano.github.io/ https://dercuano.github.io/ for example), but I can't take notes during lectures. I figure the people who are taking notes during the lecture must be a lot smarter than I am, because if I try to take notes during the lecture, writing distracts me and I lose the thread of the lecture.
- radford-neal 5y agoSame for me. I never took notes in classes. It interferes with listening. It's usually quite unnecessary, since the information is in the textbook, or other readily accessible references. The one time this policy was challenging was for a numerical analysis course I took where there was no textbook. So I had to go off to the library to find books that covered the topics discussed (this was back before the internet). This actually teaches you more than taking notes.