What do you take notes on in class?

[Gooberlx2]

I used the spiral notebooks. Thick ones for science classes, and thinner ones for everything else. Nowadays I'd probably try a tablet.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Reckoner
Paper

 

[Drakkon]

I took notes on spiral notebooks and still have practically every one of them in all their beat up faded glory stuffed boxes from college

 

[Jeff7]

World History: Laptop. It was a lot of wordy stuff, and I was leaving out a lot of important details when writing simply because I couldn't write fast enough.

Everything else: Writing, done on wide-ruled notebook paper. Equations and engineering sketches don't go onto computers very well.
Homework goes on engineering paper, almost always.

I really would prefer some electronic method (I hate paper) but as yet, I don't know of any methods that would meet my requirements.
#1 problem with paper: Searchability.
#2 problem: Storage space.
#3 problem: Pencil smudging, and I make writing mistakes far too often to make ink a possibility.


Good handwriting recognition technology would do away with those problems. Unfortunately, computers are still too stupid to do it well, and be intelligent at the same time. If I type in an equation with a fraction within a fraction, all under a radical, it needs to know to convert it into a text-based equation, and not keep it as an image. But if I make a sketch of a bolted joint or a structural support, it obviously can't be converted to text, but maybe it could be converted to a vector formatted image. The software would need to have a good idea of what to do.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

printed out powerpoint slides of the lecture.

 

[Ika]

MSI Wind with a copy of the lecture notes. Sometimes i use looseleaf paper. I don't have any classes that require drawings that aren't in the lecture notes.

 

[drinkmorejava]

Always used a .5" three ring binder in HS, but now that I never get handouts, I use a spiral notebook for each class.

 

[venkman]

paper ftw. I might do a laptop if there i knew there would be absolutely no math/forumlas/charts involved, but I've never had a class like that.