Writing Notes

[forg]

Whether it was during high school, college, maybe even at work during meetings, at some point in our life we wrote notes.

Now, the real question is, how do/did you write your notes? Did you chicken scratch them and write at the speed of light to better catch up with the lecturer? Did you have 50 different colored pens and highlighters and make the notes look as if a unicorn barfed on your words? I always envied you guys. Was there any organization? Did you write in any possible direction to keep it in one piece of paper?

…did you write notes at all?

 

[Retek]

I write notes, mostly using one pen! Never had the speed to match up with multiple pens lol! I start out organised, and then when other work catches up, I use that same notebook in a state of hurry.

So yeah, that has led to some weird notes from my end! I do make fair notes whenever or if I get time. :)

 

[Zeostar]

My notes are filled with hundreds of directional arrows and rainbow lines. This isn't "proper", but I had a teacher who once said it's important to find our own style of note taking. Even if those notes only make sense to us. This stuck with me.

I write one major idea and connect them with tons of smaller notes. The smaller notes are sometimes only two or three words. I usually finish my notes quickly.

 

[ReKoil]

I just wrote down sentences and words that seemed important, writing fast if necessary, under the guise of 'it merely needs to be legible' =P
No need to write down what's said word for word after all.

I'd also do a lot of doodling. Finding a notebook of mine without doodles is pretty much impossible =P

 

[_confused_piplup_]

Interesting topic. There's a huge difference between notes in high school and notes now.

Back in highschool I used two pens: a blue and a red one. I was that person who used to write very very fast. I could take all the most important information and even the small details and while doing that, I used the red pen to highlight important things. I remember that once I was also called noisy because of how much times and loud the change between the two pens was lol. And I got over it, by always placing them on the paper rather than on the desk itself.

Now, I take notes on the computer. Very bad thing is that I can't keep my attention up as I used to do back then, even if I have never been an attentive person. I have always had some issues with that. However, constantly writing really helped with that. Now, it's way easier to take notes on the computer as teachers use slides and most of the material to study is there. I just write down what it's not written there and sometimes it's not even that necessary.

 

[Corrin]

Just in a binder for that class, deciphering my own "writing" however, was the challenge.

 

[Orion☆]

Taking notes is a must for pretty much every class I attend (and observe, as a teacher trainee). I usually use only one pen, but switch between cursive and UPPERCASE block script to highlight words.

Unless I need a reminder of something specific the teachers said/wrote on the whiteboard, I rarely go back to those notes and usually review for exams straight from the study material. Linguistics I was one of such rare exceptions, however - I took notes in class, read the bibliography and then made cleaner notes as a reference for my mid-term exams, which I then rewrote for my upcoming final exam.