hey, I want to discuss on the different note taking methods, and know about which method work better for you to make your note taking productive and easy to revise. It will help me to improve my note taking and eventually ends increasing productivity.
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Understand the core foundation first, and then write it in my language of understanding in notebook 
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I still like to believe in hand written notes. This has helped me a lot.
For organizing large sets of data Notion is the best I found. It has everything that I need, the markdown syntax it supports is even more amazing.
so majority of the time I use handwritten notes, but for the topics name I use Notion. And inside it just copy paste raw data from different sources.
And in my notebook carefully write the things I learnt.
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Do you mean in lectures?
I take notes by hand (even if one uses a device such as a tablet, I have been taught that writing out the letters by hand is best), in the language of the lecture if possible or a mix of languages, and often use standard abbreviations (like ‘-q;’ for ‘-que’) to prevent from falling behind. I also add sketches or images when necessary to explain concepts. I tend to write bulletpoints (they are easier to glance over quickly) and divide the notes into sections and subsections, because this is how I was taught in school. While writing I underline vocabulary or short facts that I want to make into Anki flashcards. After lectures, if it’s a subject I’m serious about, I usually place the notes in memory palaces (sometimes multiple for each lecture) so that I can review anywhere or, if I only need to really recall vocabulary or basic facts for the time being, make Anki flash cards.
Also, I had to learn a new hand to take notes quickly, because my natural handwriting wasn’t legible enough. For the Latin alphabet, Humanist minuscule is the best non-cursive hand that I’ve tried because even if you write really quickly it’s usually pretty clear and you can use the standard abbreviations found in old manuscripts.
Sometimes, in slower classes where we are reading a text, I will take notes in a prepared memory palace, and then mentally review those notes (or invent images for things I had been unable to come up with before) while a classmate reads out loud. However, this only works for me when there a long gaps between the lecture-like, information-heavy sections of the class because a student is reading out loud slowly or struggling to explain something in response to a question. I’m still too slow to make this work rapidly enough in long lectures without gaps or in classes where the teacher speaks very quickly.