I am taking a course now after 15+years out of college and I see it differently. The best thing is having the slides before the lesson in pdf and keeping notes

I am taking a course now after 15+years out of college and I see it differently. The best thing is having the slides before the lesson in pdf and keeping notes on a tablet. I take freeform notes on the slides with a pen and then I rewrite them at home in text boxes on the slides. Notes are searchable at home (Linux) and at work (windows) with DocFetcher, and the tablet sync happens with btsync. Everything is automated, I can watch the presentation and keep complete and meaningful notes. The professor is very good and he keeps mentioning details and intuitions that I would not have time absorb or note if I spent all my time rewriting math equations that are all over the internet. This is for a math heavy course but I think it applies to most type of courses.