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what's your studying/note-taking workflow like?

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I'm always bouncing around with different methods yet always still suffering from being unorganized and inoptimal, having either a) heaps of unorganized chicken scratch or b) confusing notes spread sporadically throughout my laptop. And if I try to use my computer too much I start to hate my life and math gets real uncomfy. If I don't use it all I just give up on trying to redeem piles of chicken scratch that would otherwise be valuable.

I'm going to try going back to basics and just using one composition notebook per book (well, more than one if it's a thicc book), wherein i keep well written notes and attemps at solutions to problems. I don't really take many notes, fwiw, mostly just spend the time solving, and reviewing problems/proofs. For those hairy problems that span multiple pages of scratch work, I will refine it after completion and rip out the chicken scratch afterwards but still leave a breadcrumb trail as to how i found the solution. It helps that it's already bound together, small and aesthetic af.

So this doesn't get unweildy I will be using org mode for end of day transcriptions to the pc so shit's searchable and stored neatly forever if appropriate (using org-noter/interleave so my notes to correspond with page numbers on a pdf for easy cross-file linking), and will be setting up org-drill so it cycles through problems/proofs I had difficulty with so i can review them. External links and references (often saving a stack exchange link helps when looking back on a problem) can be handled with org-ref and helm-bibtex.

wish me luck, i just wanna be comfy. pls give tips