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I dislike these kind of statements. I can’t take notes. I learned very explicitly that I will retain information much better if I take no effort to write it dow
by jncfhnb 3y ago
I dislike these kind of statements. I can’t take notes. I learned very explicitly that I will retain information much better if I take no effort to write it down and instead just focus and listen. If I do take notes, I’ll look down at my page at the end and see 20ish words written in different sizes and spaces and then throw it away because it’s clearly useless.
That is to say, it’s all just personal preference. Explore and exploit what works for you.
- lolinder 3y ago> If I do take notes, I’ll look down at my page at the end and see 20ish words written in different sizes and spaces and then throw it away because it’s clearly useless. For me, the point of taking notes has never been the final product. I went through college taking at least a page of notes per lecture, but never once did I actually go back and reference them. The notes were valuable for getting the material into my brain, not for use later.
- JambalayaJim 3y agoYup - I liked taking notes using my laptop because I could copy down what the professor was saying verbatim. This gave me two advantages; (1) I could focus on the lecture itself and not how to best summarize the lecture, and (2) I could review the notes later as a higher quality product than what I would have invented. This strategy didn't work for things like math classes which were hard to take computer notes on.
- pests 3y agoWhy not just a audio/visual recording? Even when I took notes via laptop in class it was never a direct transcription.
- JambalayaJim 3y agoI would never go back to an audio/visual recording, that simply takes too much time