<p>How do you college students work best in college in terms of taking notes? Do you use looseleaf/binder? Notebooks (spiral, compo, etc)? Or do you use your laptops to take notes?</p>
<p>Back when I had humanities classes and a working laptop I’d take my humanities notes via laptop and everything else in a composition notebook so I didn’t lose notes. Now I just use the composition notebooks for everything.</p>
<p>When a class is really fast-paced with a fast professor, I’ll bring my laptop and take notes that way. Actually, I always bring my laptop; sometimes I’ll have it out to look up some definition or theory the professor mentions. For the most part, though, I write my notes into a composition book as they speak, then go to the library and type it into an organized outline.</p>
<p>I prefer to use spiral notebooks and then, depending on how lazy I’m feeling, I may transfer them to OneNote after class.
I prefer spiral because I’m one of those people who see a computer screen and are immediately distracted. If I brought a laptop to class, I’d do everything but pay attention (which means I usually bring my laptop to my more uninteresting classes)</p>
<p>I also prefer spiral because I’m pretty unorganized. It kind of makes it impossible to lose a sheet of notes.</p>
<p>And then I like to transfer it to OneNote because come study time, instead of flipping through hundreds of sheets of papers to find what I want, I can just use OneNote’s search function plus having to retype it up forces me to go over my notes.</p>
<p>I don’t do this for all my classes, but last year for A&P I would use a binder, and copy down everything from class. It was usually pretty messy, so then I’d go back and re-write the notes in a separate section of the binder. Writing things down helps me remember, and it’s easier for me to study the clean version of my notes later on. </p>
<p>I’m going to attempt this for all/most of my classes this semester, so we’ll see how that goes.</p>
<p>I’ve pretty much tried everything at this point and spiral notebooks are the best for class. I’d take notes in class and sometimes out of class also (especially for classes like a&p and microbiology…ugh) and then from those notes, I would make a study guide before each test and it never failed me. </p>
<p>Binders are great for organizing your notes afterwards, but I always ended up making them extremely messy if I took them to class. Definitely not for me! haha</p>
<p>I use loose leaf paper. I hate trying to write with that stupid spiral in the way, and it always unravels and pokes me sooner or later. I like to be able to move papers around, so I prefer loose leaf over a notebook.</p>
<p>I use recycled blank paper(useless paper with one side printed)
it is much easier to write on empty paper than in paper with lines especial for math physics stuff…then I put them in a binder…</p>
<p>Nontechnical class–> laptop (it’s faster) and I reorganize after class</p>
<p>Technical class–> any composition/spiral notebook will do, so long as everything is in the same place</p>
<p>I’m surprised to see this many people actually write. I thought everyone took notes via laptop in college. Any particular reason?</p>
<p>I know a lot of people either don’t like carrying a laptop or feel like they would be distracted if they use it. </p>
<p>I personally have to write things down because it helps me remember more than typing does.</p>
<p>Biggie_Smalls: Unless you’re an absolute wizard in LaTeX you won’t be able to take notes with a computer. Aside from that, there’s no need really.</p>
<p>I think I’d be a distraction to others if I had a laptop and no one else did.</p>
<p>Laptop for notes for as many classes as possible until my batteries run out.
Notebook/Paper for math/mathy-sciences.
Notebook/Paper for language classes until I figure out how to type in Cyrillic.</p>
<p>I use a five subject notebook until it runs out. I’m still using my one from last year.</p>
<p>JBVirtuoso, I agree about being the distraction.</p>
<p>Also, for classes with lots of diagrams/pictures, a laptop doesn’t really seem that helpful.</p>