Notetaking Freewrite

~ Notetaking, the story of my life these days. I have found that notetaking has proven to be mostly beneficial depending on what the subject is you are taking notes on. For instance, in math I have found that by taking notes sometimes you end up not paying attention to how the process is done and more attention on taking notes. In this case I feel notes are very cumbersome and do not show as much benefit as taking notes in meetings, researching, and in classes that have a lot of vocabulary terms that you will need to reference at a later time. I don’t ever really think that notetaking is a bad thing, just some times are better than others to take them. I take notes consistently all day long on my to do lists, work documents, school notes. In fact I think post its are the best invention ever! So nice to have around to write notes and reminders on!! My favorite way to take notes, especially for this class is to print out all the documents, articles etc. and highlight parts that I want to reference later. I find doing it this way is way quicker and just as effective, definitely more organized sometimes. I have never been huge on using note cards, at all. I avoid using them at all cost. Mostly because I write big and I end up using like twenty five cards for one thought (not really, but it feels like it). And also, there seems to be no good way to organize and store them. I have never tried the double entry journal, but I can totally see how it would be very beneficial, especially in writing research papers. I’m definitely going to try it! Overall, I think you can’t go wrong with taking notes. With everything else we have to worry about these days, why make it harder on yourself to try and remember everything? Just by writing it down gets it off your mind and opens up space in there for other things.