<p>My professors use lots of power points, I was going to get a spiral notebook for each class and a folder, but since there's powerpoints/hw problems/reading notes I don't know if I should do that or if I would really even stay that organized for class. </p>
<p>how do you organize your notes?</p>
<p>Anything calculation oriented: physics, math, chemistry, I take notes on graphed or printer paper. The freedom from confining lines is a godsend, especially if you have huge fractions on college-ruled paper…</p>
<p>Anything reading related: biology, I use lined paper, or I’ll type up the notes depending on how the lecture goes.</p>
<p>I usually just put the lecture notes that I print out in the textbook if I bring that to class with me or in the notebook or a folder if I leave the book in my room. I try to keep them in some sort of order, but that never really works well so I just have random chemistry notes all over the place in the books which hasn’t been a problem in the past. </p>
<p>And I have a spiral notebook for every class, science and otherwise but I’m starting to just print out lecture notes and write on that. I used to always hand write stuff during lecture, but having the same notes and additional stuff in the margins or on the lines if I’m using the 3-slide option.</p>
<p>Yeah those are both good methods. I have to do a lot of on-line problem solving and I was wondering if I should just get a binder for chem/physics because I have so many different papers, lecture notes/powerpoints, my own notes on the reading, online homework problems reference sheets and labwork. Its all alot just to stuff in one folder…</p>
<p>Then again, for genetics, I dunno what to do either. bleh. I want to stay on top of things this semester but I find myself so disorganized by midterms.</p>
<p>3 hole punch, zippered binder, sticky tabs and page dividers.
Everything gets hole punched and added to the zipper folder in the order it was covered. Exception is the syllabus which I always put to the very front.
I use the dividers to split up chapters making it easier to find specific notes.
Right after the syllabus, I use a page divider as my table of contents. Anything really important gets written down along with a guide for finding it. Like “Formula X is in last pages of chapter 5 notes.” </p>
<p>If your printing out homework problems, then I would use tabs to indicate where those begin and end and keep them with your notes from the same chapter and the power points from the same chapter. </p>
<p>It really takes practice and experimentation to get a system that works for you.</p>
<p>Spiral notebook + either folder or binder depending on how much paper (lecture notes, handouts, hw, readings) i have and how accessible they need to be.</p>