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Re:A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014) by Deinos on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @08:29AM (#20273513)
Instead of throwing out my notes, I tend to "refactor" them multiple times, condensing them down to the bare minimum. By the time I get them to that point, I no longer need them. I also tend to utilize multiple mediums: first note taking is writte; then I condense them to a digital format; I print that off and highlight, work in the margins, etc.;I will sometimes rewrite them a final time, depending on difficulty of the material.
Re:A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014) by hinkley on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @12:46PM (#20276085)
See for me it was always sort of the opposite.

My recall of things I got wrong on the tests is almost visceral, like it was traumatic that I was wrong. I figured this out pretty young and my studying habit was very similar to the methods employed for learning foreign language vocabulary or typing; progressively focus on the things the person still gets wrong.

So I'd read my notes and highlight or copy out only the facts that I found myself being surprised or flummoxed by. I'd go over those a few times, do one more scan of my entire notes, and sit before the test just going over the hard ones again until the instructor started handing out the test.

Re:A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014) by fatnoah on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @09:12AM (#20273806)
I had a workflow similar to this. I took all notes by hand (pretty sure laptop wasn't a viable option in 1993, anyway) and then typed them out later. During the course of studying, I'd condense things to a single sheet whenever possible. It worked very, very well.