Need some note taking advice

[bonoz]

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Hi guys,

First year medical student. The way I currently take notes in class is on OneNote. I annotate slides with keyboard and a pen on my tablet PC. Works well. But what I try to do afterwards is type up my notes by subject/lecture so I have all the content from lectures/books/syllabus all in one file. It sounds like a good idea on paper but in reality it takes me a long time to do this (~hour or two/lecture. This is making me fall behind on my lectures. I get about 5 to 7 lectures a day and to do that with all of them seems almost impossible. I wonder if I should forget about typing up my notes and instead should just focus on reviewing the notes I make in class and let repetition be my best friend?

I can occasional type up or write down or draw some key concepts that are hard on the memory. Also do loads of practice questions.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[bonoz]

Hi guys,

First year medical student. The way I currently take notes in class is on OneNote. I annotate slides with keyboard and a pen on my tablet PC. Works well. But what I try to do afterwards is type up my notes by subject/lecture so I have all the content from lectures/books/syllabus all in one file. It sounds like a good idea on paper but in reality it takes me a long time to do this (~hour or two/lecture. This is making me fall behind on my lectures. I get about 5 to 7 lectures a day and to do that with all of them seems almost impossible. I wonder if I should forget about typing up my notes and instead should just focus on reviewing the notes I make in class and let repetition be my best friend?

I can occasional type up or write down or draw some key concepts that are hard on the memory. Also do loads of practice questions.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi all! Any suggestions here? Thanks.

 

[Medizin]

Hi guys,

First year medical student. The way I currently take notes in class is on OneNote. I annotate slides with keyboard and a pen on my tablet PC. Works well. But what I try to do afterwards is type up my notes by subject/lecture so I have all the content from lectures/books/syllabus all in one file. It sounds like a good idea on paper but in reality it takes me a long time to do this (~hour or two/lecture. This is making me fall behind on my lectures. I get about 5 to 7 lectures a day and to do that with all of them seems almost impossible. I wonder if I should forget about typing up my notes and instead should just focus on reviewing the notes I make in class and let repetition be my best friend?

I can occasional type up or write down or draw some key concepts that are hard on the memory. Also do loads of practice questions.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi, I will be a first year med student in the fall and would like to try out your method. I realize this probably wasn't the intent of your post, but hopefully you also get some responses geared toward other efficient methods.

Would you mind telling me the specifications of your set up?

 

[Caspid]

My opinion is that re-writing/typing detailed notes is inefficient. I understand the rationale that condensing notes in your own terms aids understanding and will lead to more productive studying in the future; however, the reality of med school is that since the concepts aren't too hard to understand and you have extremely limited time, you'll get much more value out of reading the notes a few more times than rewriting them once.

If you must write something, try to limit it to <10 major concepts per lecture (if your professors provide reasonable lecture objectives, those can help you discern what's important), and repetition repetition repetition (flash cards help here). Annotating during class can help you pay attention and understand material, but deriving major concepts from the syllabus notes should be adequate, and only as a last resort should you need to use the book.