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This is great. A lot of these points were critical things I had to learn the long way in college. Rewriting notes is a huge one for me. > 3.7. Don't Take Notes
by jjice 3y ago
This is great. A lot of these points were critical things I had to learn the long way in college. Rewriting notes is a huge one for me.
> 3.7. Don't Take Notes on a Computer
The amount of notes I typed up in my personally designed note taking format with custom scripts for compiling them into static sites and PDF documents, all to never look at them again is astounding. The best notes I ever had were the ones I wrote on paper. Just being able to draw picture of what you're learning makes typed notes so much harder.
Especially in computer science, there are so many things I'd want to draw. Drawing a B Tree on paper is so much easier and better than having to do ASCII art on the fly while your professor is going to the next slide.
If there are any students in this thread, please heed some of these points on the linked post. Save yourself a headache.
- namaria 3y agoTaking notes by hand is huge for me, but also branching out. I have lots of colleagues who obsess over notes, lecture presentations and textbooks. They were always struggling to cram content instead of understanding the subject. Seeking out further literature and actually researching the subject matter has always helped me tremendously. I don't study for classes, I use classes to study for real world understanding.