Is there ANY point of taking neat notes at all?

[Anonymous No.10056183]

OK so we've all seen what girl notes look like. Pic related is a typical example from someone on my facebook. Now, obviously taking notes like this is a huge waste of time, but I still tend to feel a desire to have my notes look somewhat neat, complete, and organized, and I've been wondering whether I've been completely wasting my time. I've noticed that many people who are really adept in their discipline just don't seem to be so careful when writing notes for personal use. Maybe I should just be writing down the things I suspect I won't remember, rather than trying to be complete, and maybe I shouldn't be giving as much of a fuck about how things are arranged on the piece of paper at the end. Ultimately, the point of the whole exercise should be in my head, not on the paper, right?

[Anonymous No.10056195]

This shit is stupid and a waste of time. If you want to learn something then do exercises that force you to think of the shit you learned in novel ways.

[Anonymous No.10056204]

I think it can be pretty great for heavy-memorization subjects like chemistry, biology or medicine where you can be replaced by intelligent database queries in 10 years.

t. had horrible notes in uni, also studied mechatronics

[Anonymous No.10056205]

>>10056183
My notes are typically
>Important dates and exams
>Exam hints mentioned in class
>Exercises and proofs etc. done on the white board

Other than that you're not gonna reread any notes. Just study the textbook and make your most important annotations there.

Notes like the ones in your pic are one of the many reasons that girls spend more than twice as much time on the same STEM degree that men do.

[Anonymous No.10056570]

>>10056183
get your maid to go to classes for you and write notes.
You DO have a maid, anon?

[Anonymous No.10056583]

Speaking from a mathfag perspective: No. Anything you might write is already better written on a book. The only advantage of taking notes is that it helps you memorize stuff but this >>10056195 is a much better way to do that imo.

[Anonymous No.10056586]

>>10056183
The point of taking notes like that is to post them on Instagram to make Becky and Ashley jealous

[Anonymous No.10056600]

I rewrite all the notes we are given in print outs as the lecture goes on, my notes are exact copies of what the print outs say but I find actually writing it down embeds the information into my brain somehow. I have a very visual memory so somehow it works for me. Also I find when it comes back to revision reading notes I wrote out myself by hand seem way more accessible than digital print outs even if the content is the same.

[Anonymous No.10056608]

>>10056183
>Maybe I should just be writing down the things I suspect I won't remember, rather than trying to be complete
Yup, although I understand the urge to have neat complete notes (not like pic related but still clean looking)

[Anonymous No.10056609]

>>10056183
just remember the shit bro, that's what matters
if there's a chance you might forget it write it down in a way that you can find it, it doesn't necessarily have to look pretty
And the only way to know what you don't know is to test yourself
so it goes like this:
>takes notes of everything in class
>read them over
>do some practice questions
>redo your notes
But if there's slides then just fill in the blanks in class np

[Anonymous No.10056621]

My handwriting is so bad I can't even read what I wrote, I just do it to aid with the memorization process.

[Anonymous No.10057028]

Is this college chemistry in the US? Do you get taught this shit in high school?

[Anonymous No.10057039]

>>10056183
Neat? Yes. Fancy? No.

[Anonymous No.10057209]

>>10056586
>The point of taking notes like that is to post them on Instagram to make Becky and Ashley jealous
this 100%

[Anonymous No.10057241]

>>10056183
>Is there ANY point of taking neat notes at all
"Yes"
It should be obvious what the benefit is if you aren't retarded. Big bubble letters and lots of colors=/=neat.

[Anonymous No.10057255]

I always color code my physics problems and proofs. I find it somewhat useful and also easy since I have pic related.

The rest of my notes are messy as shit tho.

[Anonymous No.10057267]

In math notes are almost a meme. I write them anyway just do get it in my head, but never look back since it's better written in the textbook. Just work as many problems as you can tolerate. That is it.

[Anonymous No.10057293]

>>10056583
Ok, so taking notes from a math text book is a waste of time and one should focus on the exercises. But what about lectures?

Is it also a waste of time to take notes during lectures? Does having the lecture recorded makes it not worth it to
write it down on a peace of paper or in the computer?

[Anonymous No.10057320]

>>10057293
If the lecture has slides and you have them beforehand, you can print them out and annotate them with stuff the lecturer says that isn't in the notes.

[Anonymous No.10057377]

>>10056183
I take notes simply because writing things down helps me remember them and stay focused. I literally never look back at what I wrote and eventually just throw out my notebook

[Anonymous No.10057503]

>I never look back into my notes!

Well...how do you restudy things you don't know or forgot? Like things you couldn't answer in your self testing?

[Anonymous No.10057516]

>>10056183
I took "neat notes" for my bio 1 & 2 in college, it helped so fucking much. Neat notes help a lot when trying to learn something by memory, I've learned this through experience.

I don't do this with math though. Math is more about learning how to do an exercise than just memorization. Don't bother with neat notes outside of classes that require memorization.

[Anonymous No.10057531]

my two woman friends in my jazz class take notes like this and i just take notes like a complete fkin ape and i somehow got a higher score on the midterm exam than both of them combined so

[Anonymous No.10057596]

>What my notes look like

I'm unsure if this would fit under "girl notes", but I find that the color contrast, with different/key Ideas, is worth the extra time it takes switching pens back and forth, as I find it makes it far easier to skim without missing anything.

[Anonymous No.10057782]

>>10056183
stupid shit, just make a quizlet using the textbook and grind it out if you actually need to memorize something. tell me, how much do you remember after a lecture is over, even if you took the most detailed notes?

[Anonymous No.10057856]

>>10056183
Depends on how you learn. When I'm working from a textbook I usually make fairly comprehensive notes as the slow thinking in writing things out lets me understand the concepts. I never look at the notes again, it just lets me remember them.

When I was in lectures I almost never took notes, I just listened, and asked questions here and there. I'd write down some derivations, or assumptions that weren't obvious, but that's about it. Again I never looked at my notes, there were just a tool for understanding and remembering.

[Anonymous No.10057916]

>>10056586
Definitely. Just look how everything is framed in the picture. The oh so accidental angled positioning of the papers, with the pens on top, and the nerdy intelligent girl glasses on full display. Some planning went into this photo.

[Anonymous No.10057962]

Waste of time. You are just writing what you already know.

[Anonymous No.10057981]

I stopped taking notes and somehow my retention has increased. It first started in genetics 101 where I would highlight/note down everything. I realized how fucking stupid it was so I just stopped.

[Anonymous No.10058353]

girl's notes legitimately are exactly like that. it's fucking weird and retarded
t. girl watcher

[Anonymous No.10058386]

>>10056205
You're missing the real takeaway here. If you find a girl who takes meticulous notes, you can study her notes instead of taking your own. And also dick her down if you're not too autistic.

[Anonymous No.10058510]

>>10057531
>somehow
They were busy makong art projects out of their notes and wimminz r dum.

Seriously though if you don't overdo it I can see it being beneficial in really drilling something into your head by thinking about how to arrange notes and how they're related.

[Anonymous No.10058516]

I haven't take a single note for years
Most stuff professors say are the same shit the hundred other lecture notes say.
I make certain to remember any interesting remarks.

[Anonymous No.10058541]

>>10058386
No thanks. I had an easy enough time finding sex in undergrad without resorting to classmate orbiters.

And no, it's not a good idea to copy someone else's notes. Their minds are usually organised in a different and inferior way (not because they're girls, but because they're the type of person who needs to spend that much time taking meticulous notes).

Like any young man your mind was saying: Girl, pussy, good! But just imagine if it was a bloke you will quickly see there is no point in getting his notes.

Just read the textbook, make annotations that are actually worth your time. Organise the material for yourself and you'll review at a much more rapid pace.

[Anonymous No.10058545]

>>10056183
This is like subvocalisation of note taking.

[Anonymous No.10058705]

tfw get a 7/15(cohort mean was 5.13 LMAO) on an orgo quiz without taking any notes and not studying while STEM stacy gets a 4 yet has a perfect notebook that looks like OP's picture. she then spent hours solving stat problems for an online quiz with infinite attempts while i was popping xans only for her to send me all the answers out of the blue.

God it's good being a STEMchad. imagine if i actually studied but the intro content is way too boring and I end up getting lost reading papers i don't understand.

[Anonymous No.10058728]

>>10057596
>enviorment
>measurment
Apart from misspelling science-related words looks pretty nice desu.

[Anonymous No.10058766]

>>10057255
Based 10 colour pen user

[Anonymous No.10058784]

>>10056183
Rewriting notes neatly could be a good way to make you reread your note proper
But it's probably a waste of time if you don't study something you need to heavily memorize

[Anonymous No.10058858]

>>10058353
>t. girl watcher
based

[Anonymous No.10058965]

>>10056183
I usually write whatever the teacher writes on the boars on loose sheets of paper that I rarely look at. I am planning to later collect them and neatly rewrite them all in a notebook.

[Anonymous No.10059168]

>>10056600
I found the same.

listening class < taking notes in class < re-coping notes in the evening.

That last step really helped stick those ideas in my brain.

[Anonymous No.10059192]

>>10057782
This.
Notes are rendered completely obsolete, just use electronic flashcards with spaced repetition if youre studying something that is memorization-heavy.

[Anonymous No.10059197]

>Taking notes
Why are you not recording literally everything? Why doesn't your university record every lecture and make it available online?

[Anonymous No.10059203]

>write like three sentences during class that I never look at again
>update my anki deck with shit from lecture slides every few weeks
It's amazing how half my classmates literally go to uni 8-5 every day of the week, while I only show up 2 days a week for an hour or two and get better grades. I'm not necessarily smarter, I'm just not a time wasting piece of shit spending daddy's money on $10 frappes four times a day and pretending I'm not going to uni just to socialize.

[Anonymous No.10059218]

>taking notes
>not just committing the important bits to auditory memory then using mnemonic devices to recall the bits in between when required
I thought this board was smart.

[Anonymous No.10059219]

Depends on what I'm studying for really, my notes for a final usually look like this, where I just copy the information from the book directly. Writing it down really helps me remember stuff.

[Anonymous No.10059226]

>>10057503
>forgot
>he forgets things
>>>/out/ brainlet

[Anonymous No.10059231]

>>10056183
This is excellent for making your mind neat and accessing the information efficiently. However, if speed is your game, then do the exercises fully.

[Anonymous No.10059293]

I dont take notes

[Anonymous No.10059727]

>>10059226
dude who carez
im an dank rapper @nyw@ys

c u on the s0uth s1de

[Anonymous No.10060512]

>>10059218
any books on how do you do the mnemonic bit? how do you study for the technique?

[Anonymous No.10060520]

>>10060512
get out

[Anonymous No.10060853]

>>10056183
Indelible in the hippocampus

[Anonymous No.10060857]

>>10057028
this is a grad student

[Anonymous No.10060860]

>>10056183
Writing shit down is for women and faggots. Real men use only their manbrains

[Anonymous No.10060867]

>>10060860
>faggots
Why the homophobia?

[Anonymous No.10060875]

>>10056183
this is what a 3.5 GPA future wine mom retard biochem android’s mind looks like. this is what 40k in student debt and at least one white lan’s job looks like. Congratulations liberals you have forever proven that these things belong in zoos, basement dungeons, breeding facilities and CAGES

[Anonymous No.10060879]

>>10059218
My visual memory is superior by miles, and I suspect that goes for all mammals except for bats and moles.. also auditory memories are accessed serially (linear sequentially), its harder to overrite those memories just by accessing them and equally its also harder to contextualize or reframe given new information.

[Anonymous No.10060882]

>>10059218
My visual memory is superior by miles, and I suspect that goes for all mammals except for bats and moles.. also auditory memories are accessed serially (linear sequentially), its harder to overrite those memories just by accessing them but equally its also harder to contextualize or reframe given new information.

[Anonymous No.10061387]

>>10057267
At a sufficiently high level though, my math lectures were way more valuable than reviewing a textbook, especially when the professor went through so many esoteric examples that I couldn’t find on academia exchange/mathexchange. Furthermore, the notes made reading the textbook and doing problems a lot easier

[Anonymous No.10062977]

>>10060857
fuckin lol