You know... the website/videos describe this. They say multiple times there is trade off between transcribing mindlessly vs. focused listening with no notes. Th

You know... the website/videos describe this. They say multiple times there is trade off between transcribing mindlessly vs. focused listening with no notes. The point of the Cornell system is activate thinking of the topic which is why they have a "cue" section for questioning, "summary" section for "what did i learn?". The first step Cornell did forget to mention for some people is to actually attend class before commenting.