Best note taking method (1 Viewer)

[daddywal]

Should I continue taking notes on paper or should I buy an iPad? I feel like paper notes are very inefficient because it's challenging to go back and edit plus I don't have a lot of space to store the notes. Can anyone with an Ipad tell me about their experience?

 

[veryoldsigma]

handwrite your notes if feasible as it makes it stick in your memory better. Think about the reason you're writing notes. it's quite likely that someone has already written notes for every subject that you are doing that are far superior and better written than your notes will ever be. your notes shouldn't really be for reference, they're to help you process and remember information
this is just my opinion tho

 

[indeed]

Yh important not to base all your study off notes, that's what I mostly did, until exam period arrived and study notes took too long to make so i just jumped to quickly scribbling some content stuff down to memorise it and focused on past papers

 

[daddywal]

ok maybe i should phrase the question better... Should I handwrite notes on paper or buy an iPad and use an Apple pencil to write on GoodNotes? Right now I handwrite notes on paper but written notes on iPad take less physical space. So yea which one would you recommend?

 

[SadCeliac]

ok maybe i should phrase the question better... Should I handwrite notes on paper or buy an iPad and use an Apple pencil to write on GoodNotes? Right now I handwrite notes on paper but written notes on iPad take less physical space. So yea which one would you recommend?

You want to spend hundreds of dollars purely for note taking.....? Why :/

What did paper ever do to you

 

[SadCeliac]

i steal my sister's ipad to do past papers/question sets cause some of this stuff will take wayyyy too long/cost too much to print out and i don't like just labelling qns in a notebook

Yeah fair enough I guess

I just don't think buying it purely for notes is worth it tbh - everyone before us has been able to do fine with pen and paper so why can't we

 

[SadCeliac]

some schools i.e normo have booklets for math and using an ipad is easier imo

ohhh right

 

[carrotsss]

Imo notes should just be a way of remembering stuff as you learn it, as a separate study method they’re extremely inefficient and you don’t really need a set of notes to be able to look back at them, realistically you can just check the textbook or someone else’s set of notes

 

[idkkdi]

i steal my sister's ipad to do past papers/question sets cause some of this stuff will take wayyyy too long/cost too much to print out and i don't like just labelling qns in a notebook

ye this way easier to keep track of problems u've done if u keep it all on a device

 

[howcanibesmarter]

not that deep mate just buy ipad if u have the money, if not what else can u do