You too?!
Nice! Someone also recommended me that video and I plan to watch it either today or tomorrow. And yeah, it's damn hard watching a video that's hours-long. Like, holy hell, videos on YouTube nowadays are too long and I hate it. Well, not always, sometimes I appreciate it. But wow, it can be a doozy at times. It's while I appreciate TikTok (even though a lot of people, well, hate TikTok!).
Anyway, I'm currently watching this:
I've just started using Obsidian and it's been a godsend for me; I'm trying to either find a new note-taking method or perfect my current one.
If anyone has recommendations on note-taking, I'm all ears.
okay, I used to take notes for the disabled back in college, and I was doing some Crime Scene Investigation stuff where my mentor hammered in the importance of taking notes, so I speak with MILD familiarity. Take it with a grain of salt, buuut~
I would try to always be writing something. In the class I had to take notes for, the teacher was pretty awful. So I couldn't guarantee how long the information would be present. As a result, I was scrambling to always at least make sure the core concept of the topic was the first thing I was ready to take notes on- keeping an open area for any additional notes in case I'd have to loop back and add more. Additionally, in case there were things I were specifically curious about that the teacher didn't get to, I'd write what it was in a separate section. When reading my notes later to study, it would encourage me to engage with it in a different way.
It's also not something every professor would do, but I'd also mark things that were supposed to be on the test with a mark I'd some kind.
When it comes to freehand note taking, separate from academia, I have some of the same methods. Usually though, I'll specifically take notes on what I know I want to Walk away with the most- whatever piece of information sticks out to me to help me get a greater grasp of the topic at hand, I'll look at and figure out what about that stands out, and find ways to connect it to the larger pieces at hand, sorta building a puzzle by how these elements fit in. It's certainly more abstract without a way to test myself against peers... But, for instance, I've been messing with video editing lately. I would learn how to do one element of it, like body effects, or transitions, figure out where they are in the myriad of menus, figure out how to slowly fine tune them to do what I need [still on this step], and it all came from me taking notes on a larger video which serves as "the beginners guide to video editing".
