Note Taking

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I was wondering if any aspies in college have strange ways of taking notes. For me I start with the main topic, I circle it and ever other idea for the is connected by random lines and them too I circle. If those ideas have more ideas I connect them by lines and circles. At the end I have the entire lecture in this sort of web thing. I do this for two reason... One it takes a lot less time because I don't seem to need to copy every little word down... Also I have a hard time reading straight lines my eyes tend to jump around terribly, so this way I have a way to keep my eyes moving and allow me to read my notes. I find that also during test time i can pretty much picture exactly what my note pages looked like.

I don't take notes - I can't take notes and take in further information at the same time, so if I do take notes I end up missing most of the information. Without taking notes, I can remember most of the information so long as I remain focused, but if the information isn't particularly interesting I generally can't focus for long.

Do you mean like this?

http://users.skynet.be/danieljanssens/page1.html

I'm hopeless at taking any kind of notes, because I can't multi-task the writing with the listening. I get hung up on anything I've failed to hear, understand or write, so then I miss rhe next bit, etc. The pattern-notes method interested me for a while but I never managed to get used to it, I seem to habitually drop back into linear notes. Nonetheless, if I could ever get used to the look and feel of such a technique, I suspect it could help a lot. I like a lot of what Tony Buzan says, he seems to see things from a student point of view.

When I was in college I used to take notes I'm class by writing the first letter of something and then small waves roughly corresponding to how many letters I needed. Also I'd only write down a few words about something when the instructor would make a key point. A 20 minute discussion about the Civil War could be like C.... W.. 1861-1865 N.... W.. And I'd remember virtually everything that was covered.

I don't take notes either. Partly because I can't listen and write at the same time, and even more importantly because they simply do not help me remember anything at all.

Sometimes I hear something I know is going to be important, only have time to write down a word or two so I can hopefully recall the details, then read them afterward and can't figure out what the hell it was supposed to remind me of.

Notes, for me, are worthless.

If I can't remember information just from listening, then I can't remember it. It's that simple. I can only remember what I can remember, so I just listen, and try to create images of what's being discussed.

Lectures are a bad way for me to learn because of all this. My brain works far faster than any speaker can speak, so it's all over the place during the lecture. It is what it is. Why bother concerning myself over it? I'm better off attending lectures, then looking up information about the topic on my own afterward. Doing that often sparks subconscious memories of things the speaker covered, and that works far better.

Also, if it's possible, If the lecture material is highly important, I will ask for copies of the speaker's notes. You'd be surprised how often you can get them.

I only take notes for my philosophy class but my professor moves so freakin' fast I can barely make it in time before he changes topics or flips to the next slide.

I have never been able to take notes. The thing that has helped me the most is asking my professors if they could provide me with an outline. This way I could focus during class and go over it later.

Now when ever I teach I prepare a power point presentation and print it out for my classes. I give it out to my students at the beginning of class. this way they can concentrate on class and take part in the class easier.

I took notes most of the time in school all the way through college. But my handwriting can be so challenging to read that I had to be careful to make sure I could read it. But the irony is, I rarely looked over my notes after taking them.

That sounds a lot like a brainstorming web. I find people talk too fast or too much for me to take real notes so I would just do bullet points of the important things if I did anything. Auditory stuff isn't my strong point.

i got through college by taking great (if nearly illegible) notes and studying them the night before the test. i used my own shorthand ( cuz for because, etc.). i was good at distilling ideas into a few words, so i could keep up.

my nephew, who also has AS, can't seem to keep up with note-taking. i think he tries to write everything. though he has a genius IQ, he has yet to complete college. the suggestion of getting the outline from the teacher beforehand sounds like it may be helpful to him. i'll pass it on. thanks.

I can't listen and write at the same time, and trusting anything to my memory is a sure fail, so I use a voice recorder for anything verbally delivered I might need to take notes on.
Most people don't mind.

Most of the times I try to get the subject beforehand on paper. So I can scribble only important things additional to the text.

Taking notes of everything takes too much time. Most of the times my notes consist of keywords, a small drawing or some connecting lines to visualise connections.

I don't take notes, I just reveiw the information.....until I understand it.

I'm not that great at taking notes and listening at the same time, but I can do it, so its really weird that I'm now the student council Secretary, and my note taking skills are getting better. I really only take notes when I have to, as I remember most stuff without taking any notes and I usually miss more information while taking notes.

I was never good at notes primarily because they were disorganised or illegible. I never had a good note taking system. Also I don't have a good two-track system--meaning I cannot easily take notes and listen well at the same time. Instead I make up for it by listening more attentively and focusing primarily on the content. Also, I take notes more often if I were given an outline, but still, many of those problems persist.

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