taking notes in lectures, What do you use?

tobywuk

tobywuk

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What device do you use, or would like to use for taking notes in lectures at college/uni etc.. which do you find the easyest to use and organise?

devices such as:

Pen & paper
dictaphone
laptop
palmtop

etc..
 
As I'm in Year 12 (year below GCSEs) I am not allowed to bring out anything except my diary, which uses the great technology of a pen.

Once I get to University I'll probably use a PDA and then upgrade to a laptop, probably a macbook.
 
i used to use yellow paper and pencil. I find i write much better in pencil. And you can make marks on hands out better too.
 
Place a Dictaphone on your chair, turn it on and walk out!:)

No, only joking. I am about to do my GCSE's this year and don't have lectures yet but this thread could benefit me , or at least give me an idea for when I'm at college.
 
Well I am in my last year of college and have just been using pen and paper which has been well suited. When university comes around I will most likely switch to a laptop.
 
there is nothing more annoying than the sound of someone typing away in a lecture room, remember those things are designed to carry and reverberate sound.

A pencil and paper is best, you can draw arrows, pics, diagrams, charts really quick and erase them just as easy.
There are others here who will know just as well as i do, if not more so, but for my part I just finished my accountancy qualification (3 years sheesh glad that's over), and before that i did 2 degrees (4 years at uni NOT glad that overs :( )., and in all that time i never used anything other that pen and paper.
 
i picked up a fairly cheap mini voice recorded as a freshmen. (a digital one) with a 1GB memory) works great! i could stay hands free for other old notes or diagrams while my recorder is getting every little detail...

i prefer the tape recorder since i'm more of an audible learner...

some professors don't allow recorders in there class though. might want to check in on that one. and plus, only could use them in my lectures not labs...
 
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I bring a spiral notebook, a blue pen, a black pen and a bunch of yellow post-it notes to class (when I was in lecture classes on the school grounds.. now every class - only 8 left! - is over the internet).

I would take notes with the black pen and use the blue pen only to write or circle important information. I would use the post-it notes to keep track of what topics were on each page by writing a key phrase and letting a piece of the post-it note hang out of the notebook... it worked for me.
 
My implement is a bit more high-tech than the rest of the class, my laptop. I have dysphraxia which makes my writing illegible to all, even me at times. It has been generally agreed that my notes are better on my laptop, and I can also get more detail down because my typing outpaces most people writing.:eek:
 
apj101 said:
but for my part I just finished my accountancy qualification (3 years sheesh glad that's over)
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my old man runs his own accountancy company in Cardiff :)

Anyway, im in college, and studying computer systems security next year in uni. At the moment, im just using plain old pen and paper, but im dyslexic and so when i write its all untidy, all over the place and i find it difficult to read my own writing :rolleyes:

I was just wondering if there would be a easier better alternative :)
 
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