/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5235736]

Best instrument to take notes?

[Anonymous No.5235743]

0.38 master race

[Anonymous No.5235798]

v5
precision, beetches

[Anonymous No.5235811]

>>5235743
all of my THIS. so smooth, so perfect. sucks for left handed people. dat smear.

[Anonymous No.5235810]

pilot p500, trust me, i have pen-gasms with this

[Anonymous No.5235818]

>>5235743
I use a 0.5 mm, but these suckers are the best.

[Anonymous No.5235828]

Digital Master Race reporting in.

[Anonymous No.5235882]

Nothing better than a propelling pencil to takes note.
Z good one nice to keep in hand.
<= My favorite is the "Uni Shalaku S"
It's the best to keep in hand, and the bottom in not at the top, but next to your fingers.

[Anonymous No.5235914]

This has always been handy.

[Anonymous No.5235916]

[Anonymous No.5235926]

>>5235914
>2smart4U

[Anonymous No.5236500]

>>5235798
This.
Also, the Uniball Kuru Toga.

[Anonymous No.5236505]

Space pens are my choice, they write really well and never fail, all with the feel of ballpoint pens. The liquid ones are nice but I smudge them too much.

[Anonymous No.5236507]

So is there any good mechanical pencil? Fuck taking notes with a pen.

[Anonymous No.5236547]

>>5236507
It comes down to the fact that pencil fights you no matter what due to the graphite. It takes far less force to write with pen so you can write faster.

[Anonymous No.5236564]

>>5235743
>>5235798
Which one to get?

[Anonymous No.5236568]

Custom pen with design off of a pen spinning forum master race.

[Anonymous No.5236687]

A nice solid fountain pen, because ink is cheap and it writes smoothly like no other. Way smoother even than the best gel pen, which would be my second choice.

[Birman !!a5fbgD7KoUA No.5236686]

>>5236505

[Birman !!a5fbgD7KoUA No.5236691]

>>5236505

[Anonymous No.5236701]

fountain pen master race here.

[Anonymous No.5236719]

Pilot Birdie on me at all times. Nobody gets to borrow it, I don't care if you're signing a fucking multinational peace treaty.

Zebra tricolor + pencil for when shit really hits the fan.

[Birman !!a5fbgD7KoUA No.5236769]

>>5236719
>I don't care if you're signing a fucking multinational peace treaty.
What about an intergalactic peace treaty?

[Anonymous No.5236770]

>>5236547

The fuck are you talking about?

A nice 0.7 or 0.5 mechanical pencil glides over the page. Graphite is commonly used as a dry lubricant fyi.

A ballpoint pen on the other hand, requires such a comparatively high pressure to roll the ball, that the friction fights you considerably the whole way.

If you want proper glide though, join the master race and return to the fountain pen.

[Anonymous No.5236782]

>>5236770
Powdered graphite maybe, but hardened graphite you have to drag across the page and press down hard to make your mark on the paper. Gel and fountain pens require far less force.

[Anonymous No.5236834]

>>5236564
I own both, but I like the Pilot Precise v5 much more than the other. It's so smooth.

[Anonymous No.5236842]

>>5236769
I'd consider it, but I'd be watching every second and If I saw some extraterrestrial asshat try to pocket it I'd go Will Smith mode faster than a modelocked femtosecond Ti:Sapphire.

[Anonymous No.5236847]

>>5236782

you sound very weak. You should eat more beef

[Anonymous No.5237174]

bamp

[Anonymous No.5237178]

Rotring 800

[Anonymous No.5237340]

laptop with dvorak. there is no going back.

[Anonymous No.5237353]

BIC mechanical pencils

[Anonymous No.5237357]

>>5235743
>Not .7
>shiggidy

[Anonymous No.5237367]

zebra f-301 master race reporting in

[Anonymous No.5237382]

Get on my level.

[Anonymous No.5237387]

>Not greentexting your notes
>Not >implying all your theorems
Am I the only one who does this?

[Anonymous No.5237414]

>>5237387
i do this

[Anonymous No.5237423]

>>5237387
holy shit I don't but now I get the feel that I MOST do this

[Anonymous No.5237433]

>all these pleb-tier ball pens
Fountain pen master-race reporting in.

[Anonymous No.5237439]

I start off with a #2 pencil then i gradually find more pens. Right now i alternate with black ink pen for equations and pencil for examples and problems

[Anonymous No.5237443]

>>5235916
I hope you do that on wood. Rock is inefficient.

[Anonymous No.5237450]

>>5237443
What are you, a baby? Yeah, keep to your jenga or whatever while the REAL men do REAL chiseling.

[Anonymous No.5237457]

>>5237450
>REAL men do REAL chiseling
>Rock
>Not marble
Get the fuck out of here.

[Anonymous No.5237466]

>>5237433
What's a good one master?

[Anonymous No.5237464]

The best

[Anonymous No.5237468]

Why do people take notes with pen? What if you fuck up? Maybe it's just me, but I hate having to scribble shit up and having a messy-looking notes

[Anonymous No.5237470]

>>5237468
>mindlessly copying shit down before you've used your brain to process it
If you're doing it properly, you won't make mistakes.

[Anonymous No.5237478]

>>5237468
Note's aren't meant to be perfect, they're supposed to model your thought process so that you can quickly relearn the material. So some mistakes don't matter, you work around them. It's better than taking time to erase a mistake and missing something.

As to why use pens over pencils? For me they write better, I don't have to deal with lead, and they're just faster... It's personal preference, but I write way faster with a pen.

[Anonymous No.5237480]

>>5237470
You're still bound to make some mistakes, somehow

[Anonymous No.5237481]

>>5237468
I have a black pencil from one of these bulk packages that has lasted over a year now (replacing lead ofc)

[Anonymous No.5237486]

>>5237480
Mistakes are best to be crossed out, not erased. Erasure takes more time from writing or understanding the lecture.

[Anonymous No.5237500]

>>5235798
Represent.

Also, they put out a retractable V5 recently. I was suspicious at first, but it writes just as dark and smears as little as the V5. It writes mildy smoother too. It is only slightly thicker than a normal V5, has the same point, and has a finger grip. It has refillable ink too, so less waste. Clicking it gives me something to do.

[Anonymous No.5237505]

>>5237500

[Anonymous No.5237519]

>>5237387
It just feels right.

[Anonymous No.5237535]

>>5237443
so you claim....

[Anonymous No.5237551]

Colors provide another dimension to notes.

[Anonymous No.5237554]

Colors provide another dimension to notes.

[Anonymous No.5237580]

>>5237457
>implying marble is not rock

[Anonymous No.5237583]

>>5237554
Why not use a simpler, single pen design? There are some really nice ones out there.

[Anonymous No.5237596]

>>5237519
>It just feels right.
>qualia

[Anonymous No.5237603]

>pens

I shiggy diggy.

[chemfag !Hzum9Tvcag No.5237619]

>>5237554
I do this, it really helps a lot.

My instrument of choice are those new InkJoy pens by Papermate. They're thick enough for me with no annoying grippy thing (I rotate my pen in my hand constantly as I write, grippy thing gets in the way). Also, the ink is really dark and flows fast. So far, the only downside is if I drop them with the tip out, it'll get scratchy.

Pic related - notes in color.

Also, I should start carrying green.

[Anonymous No.5237672]

>>5237619
Have you ever tried a multipen?

[Anonymous No.5237675]

>>5237596
Does the lead rotate like the Kuru Toga?

[Anonymous No.5237684]

>>5237619

>red for text

My nigga.

[chemfag !Hzum9Tvcag No.5237685]

>>5237672
A few times yeah, but I haven't found any good ones. It's been a long time since I looked. Most of the ones that I've used in the past are poor quality and either jam up inside, or break apart.

Also - refills. I'd hate to run out of black and not be able to find the right kind of replacement. Or, if I lose a pen right now, it's only one color (and not all of em if I lose that)

[Anonymous No.5237716]

Every single semester, some clown in one of my classes jabs at me for using old fashioned pencil and paper for note taking or my large letters and 'inefficient use of the entire paper'.

And every single semester I walk out of class with a mid/high A while all of the plebeians who are so obsessed with their mech. pencils, silly pens, and small writing end up with Bs or Cs.

Do you even read your notes?

[Anonymous No.5237741]

>>5237716
Get your eyes checked.

[Anonymous No.5237752]

>>5237716
Joke's on you, I don't take notes and walk out of classes with As. No chance that we learn differently, you're just a pleb.

[Anonymous No.5237758]

>>5237752
>>5237716
Jokes on both of you queermos, I don't even go to class I just show up on the first day and they hand me my diploma.

[Anonymous No.5237760]

>>5237758
>Jokes on both of you...
Obviously English class went well for you.

[Anonymous No.5237784]

>>5237741

They're fine.

>>5237752

Professor sees me attending class, would write a recommendation letter for me or do research under him/her. Professor doesn't know who the fuck you are. Wouldn't write your obituary let alone a recommendation letter.

>>5237758

Well fuck you too, buddy!

Hope your eyes bleed out.

[Anonymous No.5237798]

>>5237741

Why? They're fine.

>>5237752

Difference is that the professor knows me, would write me a recommendation letter, and would let me do research under him.

The professor doesn't know who da feck you are.

>>5237758

Business is hard.

Here's some crap from three semesters ago. Hope your eyes bleed out.

[Anonymous No.5237794]

>>5237741

Why? They're fine.

>>5237752

Difference is that the professor knows me, would write me a recommendation letter, and would let me do research under him.

The professor doesn't know who da feck you are.

>>5237758

Business is hard. Hope your eyes bleed out.

[Anonymous No.5238686]

>>5237716
I fail to see the issue here, seems pretty standard for note taking. Having notes as clear as possible helps in the long run, and paper is fucking cheap as shit.

I personally can't be assed with that when doing exercises though.

[Anonymous No.5238700]

quick-dry jet pens are god tier for lefties

[Anonymous No.5238720]

>>5237798
>90 degrees
>not pi/2
>2012

[Anonymous No.5238723]

>>5237716
i dont read my notes but i find that writing them is helpful with memory

[Anonymous No.5238727]

>>5238720
lol? pi/2 is 1.57, howd you get it to 90? sci really has gone shit

[Anonymous No.5238734]

[Anonymous No.5238738]

>>5238727
>Do you basic high school?
(pi/2) radians = 90 degrees

[Anonymous No.5238745]

>>5238727

Radians bro

[Anonymous No.5238775]

So you guys prefer loose leaf paper to take notes on?

[Anonymous No.5238812]

I like to use a sharpie.

[Anonymous No.5238828]

>>5237798
I understand most of that and I only did high-school physics. And I did it in BRITAIN.

[Anonymous No.5238845]

>>5236782
Do you even lift?

[Anonymous No.5238848]

>>5238723
this is me
are you me writing me?

[chemfag !Hzum9Tvcag No.5238867]

>>5238848
I do this too, and sometimes even re-copy them the next day so they're neater and more structured. Repetition of reading, processing, and rewriting helps me remember even better the second time around. Also, they're a lot nicer to read when you're going back to study them if you ever need to.

Also, like >>5238686 said, paper is cheap.

[Anonymous No.5238908]

You are all dumb fucks. This is the proper instrument.

[Anonymous No.5238913]

>>5235798
THIS pen is master-race for left-handed people. No smearing whatsoever, unlike pencils and most other pens. Accept no substitute. I have several packs of five exclusively for math problem sets.

[Anonymous No.5239097]

for my engineering classes

[Anonymous No.5239120]

>>5237596

I must know what pad and what pencil this is

[Anonymous No.5239345]

not even a challenge

[Atwill !kelPcGZQlE No.5239352]

[Anonymous No.5239365]

For my Biology class, teacher required us to get these

[Anonymous No.5239391]

>>5236691
this guys knows wht's up

[Anonymous No.5239398]

>>5239365
It's not surprising. Biology is a hard science after all.

[Anonymous No.5239410]

>>5239365
Great advice, those come in handy for drawing pictures of birds and plants.

[Anonymous No.5239613]

>>5239120
Rotring 600.

[Anonymous No.5241051]

Fountain pen for note taking, y/n?

[Anonymous No.5241068]

This motherfucker right here. It has a pressurized ink cartridge that can write upside down, in extreme cold (up to minus 20 degrees), on shiny surfaces, wet paper and even underwater. The ink dries fast and never smudges and when you're writing it is SMOOTH. AS. FUCK.

If you don't use a Power Tank you might as well not be studying.

[Anonymous No.5241078]

graphics tablet with krita

[Anonymous No.5241091]

[Anonymous No.5241103]

>>5241091
how is fountain vs ballpoint?

[Atwill !kelPcGZQlE No.5241125]