Question

How is my note-taking?

Answer 1

I used green pen for formulas, blue pen for important side-notes, and red pen for cautions so far...

Answer 2

mmmm... pretty good, but doesn't hold a candle to @Vocaloid's MAD note-taking, yo voca drop some notes

Answer 3

looks nice. all that really matters is that your system works for you and helps you learn/remember things.

Answer 4

Okay, what if I told you my system isn't working

Answer 5

how so? do you feel like it's your note-taking system that's holding you back

Answer 6

I want...more colors and less info

Answer 7

It's hard to memorize my notes, that's the problem.

Answer 8

So do you use colors when you take notes, and like what does each color represent

Answer 9

idk how much it really helps but I tend to pick a darker color for major headings, then a lighter color for smaller things like major vocab words or concepts

Answer 10

math notes are hard to condense down though

Answer 11

WOW!! Amazing notes there @Vocaloid

Answer 12

Oh you highlight them instead xd

Answer 13

do you think flashcards might be more helpful? sometimes when I have a crap ton of info I break it down into smaller pieces so I can just study a bit at a time w/o having to stare at a whole page of notes

Answer 14

Flash cards would be great for memorizing vocab, but not really for math

Answer 15

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Flash cards would be great for memorizing vocab, but not really for math
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For math, I also find it very difficult to take notes. I barely do much notes, I spend more time practicing concepts and taking notes of specifications that I might not remember/find easily in a book

Answer 16

^ yeah that's a good point, my math notes just end up being too much like the textbook/lecture notes

Answer 17

Yeah. IMO math is more of a skill and would be retained as procedural memory bc it gets more intuitive. It's kind of like driving a car to an extent. I learned through trial and error and found that taking notes would be more time consuming but I didn't understand the concepts better. So I just take notes of things that are like rare cases or something I do not understand and need to look over again.

Answer 18

yeah sorry wish I could be more helpful

if I can leave with one parting advice I would avoid spending too much time thinking about/making notes, and just spend that time studying/doing practice problems or whatever. you'll get more return for your investment that way.

Answer 19

WOW!! Amazing notes there @mhchen

Answer 20

LOL

Answer 21

...pretending I didn't heat Vocaloid's suggestion....I noticed my blue ink has higher contrast against my white paper than pink and green, with green having the lowest, and I can ignore saturation cause none of the pen sizes are fat enough.

Order of importance:
Blue
Pink
Green

Now where to put my gray pencil marks in that ranking....I guess I'll leave it at the bottom.

Most important: Formulas
Second most important: ......I DON'T KNOW

Answer 22

@Vocaloid How can you understand the title when you trace it with pen over marker?

Answer 23

Blue: Formulas/Definitions
Pink: Theorems
Green: side notes for pencil marks
Pencil Marks: Examples, and everything else

ahh there we go. Good work for today. Now I'll study :b

Answer 24

I only do that for the titles as an aesthetic thing (I don't just take notes for myself, I run an academic blog so visuals are more important to me than the average person)

Answer 25

Okay.

Answer 26

I personally only use pen because it shows up better on camera, but pencil is fine for personal user

Answer 27

I followed justus' note-taking tips somewhere.

"Date your notes" -- I did that on top
Title your notes -- didn't do that, not sure what my math teacher is trying to teach
Write down important points only -- yup
Use color -- oh yeah
Use illustrations and drawing - Won't help for now, but maybe later
Keep notes organized - one notebook and folder for each class.

Answer 28

Now I gotta figure out how to stop my mind from daydreaming all the time

Answer 29

Haha I never knew anyone would follow