What are your preferred ways for taking notes? Choose up to 3, and leave a comment below with details:
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I ticked āpaperā cos Iām old and i also ticked āOtherā because i am greatly interested in mental notetaking in real time. Also when my life settles down a little bit Iād like to look into Buzan Diagrammes/Mind Mapping again because Anthony Metivier rates it .
A good old Notepad and a Pen is the best tool for me to create my daily to-do list and to take notes. I do this on a daily basis, and I developed āa fast note taking methodā by simply Not using the vowels in my notes such as āpst th lttrā translates as āpost the letterā. This is also good if by any chance somebody was looking at my notes, they usually donāt have a clue about what my notes are. 
So I kind of use an encrypted method of note taking.
I selected Paper, Word and Who needs notes?
For a lot I can use palaces that I have for temporary storage, after which I can move it to Excel+Permanent Palace, or to Word.
When it is a subject that doesnt allow for easy images, I print my digital Cornell Sheet and make notes on paper, which I then turn into images or process into Word, also in the Cornell Sheet layout.
I often cant read my own handwriting after a few weeks because I write waaaaay too fast, so turning it into something digital makes it easier to read later on. And the second moment of note-taking makes it easier to memorize as well.
I typically take notes in form of TEXT files kept organized in folders. Those files can be accessed by any text processing app. Currently VSCode is my favorite app to write those TEXT files, many of them are in mark down due to mark down syntax highlighting in VSCode
I commit my files into a GIT repository and keep them on a private repo in Gitlab account, also pushed to Bitbucket account as a redundant copy.
This makes search in my text files easier while working in VSCode.
I chose paper, a notetaking app and āwho needs notes?ā
Most of the time I donāt need notes when learning or studying because my brain seems to store a lot of information immediately already but I do write notes down on paper incase I later forget some stuff.
I use a notetaking app on my phone for things I easily forget like buying groceries and appointments.
I chose paper, notepad and note taking app.
Paper when I am studying.
Notepad when I am attending a lecture.
Note taking app when I am reading something on my tablet.
Nice, I use plain text for most things too (Org Mode, markdown, and paper).
For quick notes I use Samsung Notes.
If the information is important enough Iāll create a Word or Excel document and keep it for years or until its no longer needed.
Most recently Iāve begun storing information in a screensaver I am creating for Android using Processing.js. This one will contain all formulas related to Electronics and is in preparation of a Memory Palace.
I use mind maps a lot
Traditional paper notes in class. I was never allowed to bring a laptop in.
My handwriting was atrocious and I never learned a good way to take notes, though. Usually it didnāt even matter if I took notes or not!
There were several times where I took notes and I couldnāt even read them a week later!
Evernote for me, both typed and voice dictated
I study maths, I think most people take notes using paper and pen. Nowadays there are more and more people using tablets/laptops to record notes, but I prefer the old fashioned way (not that iāve ever tried the new way)
Mathematicians here might be interested in this Inkscape-based notetaking system:
Love the poll
What program is this in?
Martin
I marked paper and note taking app. I use my android phone for making notes and actually want to make all notes digitally. But many times its not possible to draw flowcharts etc easily or it would become terribly slow so i need to make it on paper and then take its picture and make its pdf or notes in word format etc.
Paper and MPs.
Especially in class, I like to take notes in a short-term memory palace.
For a year now, I have been using Excalidraw through the extension inside vs code.
It organize all the ideas , notes and problem I am working on it helps me a lot and share it graphically with colleaguesā¦ I can draw, I can add texte, different size color, scroll infinitly, jump back ā¦ I could not do it with another tool now, itās too powerfull. Infinite possibilities.
I ticked Paper and Other. Paper because I do tend to take a lot of notes on paper, and Other because the notes I do have on my computer, I keep in text files (.txt, .md, and .adoc) and edit primarily with Kakoune. I used to use Vim, but I switched to Kakoune semi-recently, though I havenāt really learned enough commands for it to be much more useful than a GUI editor, yet. I recently discovered AsciiDoc, and have begun making .adoc files in many situations I previously would have made .md files. Itās basically Markdown but with all the features you wish Markdown had
Those look interesting. I havenāt tried AsciiDoc, but Iām going to take a look.
