What's your note taking style?

this is so embarrassing ... i don't know even on e of them...
somebody please tell me about these methods..

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I bullet point key topics as they come up, usually in full sentences but my own words (not copied from a book or direct from the teacher's mouth), and I use a coloured pens and a colour-coding system for my words (which is different for each topic).

For example, I was making notes today on treating schizophrenia in a psychology class. Each different treatment method got its own primary colour and different shades of each colour were used to designate descriptive points, examples and evidence/research studies.

If I'm not fast enough to do that in the lesson, I summarize the key points as they come and write them up properly for revision.

The Cornell Method sounds very interesting though. I have tried using something similar very before, a sort of standardized note-taking system I devised, but my pet hate of using rulers meant I never stuck with it.

I've never heard of those options. I thought the way I wrote was called linear, although I have no idea. I like writing line by line rather than everything scattered everywhere. I don't like doing spider diagrams because you never know if you'll have enough space, so you write a bit small, and then you have too much space, and then there's a big gap you have to fill but you have nothing to fill it with. Argh! I do like mind maps though.

Enough to get the story i am after what ever method that is.

I haven't taken notes since like 1997 or something. I always did well on tests even though I didn't apply myself in class and I rarely did homework.

Sometimes the teacher will provide some slides while teaching, in this case I would get the copies or copy the most important stuff, i guess scanning notes. When it is a lecture, well i do take some notes, but thats it, i will never look back at them. I mostly use the outline to create any helpful data to study from. I am lucky enough to get what would be on each test so i will use the terms or questions and write my own study guide, it takes some time but when you study from it you usually absorb the information faster. Since you reviewed and read the sources, then generated straight answers and then typed it, it gets pretty easy to remember it all after reading it some time later before a test. I usually get between 80-the upper 90's depending on the course. If i found it interesting and knew some of the things discussed i will be an A on every exam; but if it was all completely foreing and I also found no interest in it i will usually get the low 80's. I got accostumed to this study method, I am aware it is not useful in all situations but it is the method i feel the most comfortable with. So the outline for notes, and the review/study guide to study for exams

I actually use my iPad to take my notes with. I know that obviously not everyone can afford one, but there are tons of cheap tablets out there.

Anyway, as my professor is talking; i type my notes. I have an app called "Binder" it saves my notes in different tabs for all of my different classes. Its extremely useful.

The "write as much as possible in the tiniest possible space (including drawings, doodles and song lyrics)" method.

I took exactly zero notes throughout both my degrees and I did just fine.

Pitman's Shorthand anybody?

i write down things i think i should remember and spend the rest of the time doodling

I. I outline things.
1. It goes a little bit like this
2. Then I make some categories!
a. dog
b. nipple
c. potato

Just like that kids. Organization.

Most of these methods I've never heard of until now. I'm sure I tried at one point to write down what the teacher said, but eventually I realized it was a lost cause. A lost cause because the speaker often talks much faster than I can write and my memory usually isn't very good. I don't like the feeling of being left behind while everyone else is on point.

What I usually do is try to make a mental note of what's being said, but of course, I often forget. Sometimes, I worry about how others in a class portray me because I'm one of the few or only person who isn't taking notes.

I don't know the meaning of any of those methods. I always hated taking notes. I could never keep up!

I would usually do the sentence method with a mixture of doodles and complete chaos for lectures and powerpoints.

I also just write whatever the teacher has on the board.

Mine closely resembles the Outline Method. I write it down never to look at it again. Once I write it down I can usually remember (most of) it well enough to where I don't need to go back and read my notes.

Depends on the class. If it's a history or rote memorization type class, I use the outline method. If it's a science or maths based class, I use a bit of everything.

Hate to be boring but I have no writing style beyond writing symbols next to the notes.

I use mapping when I'm building an idea that's already in my own head, my own note-taking method (like a modified Cornell with short-hand and mnemonics and fluid cues) when I'm minute taking. Haven't really heard of the others but what I do is usually adaptive and based on necessity.

At uni, I wrote everything and hurt my hand.