Hey Beehaw!
I’ve recently received a copy of Physically Based Rendering 4th edition. I’ve been going through the book slowly, but have had a hard time retaining information. I used to use markdown to take extensive notes, but found that I would end up copying too much useless information. Also, writing latex notes for math is painfully slow.
I was wondering what note taking methodologies you all use. I think my ideal note taking method would fulfill three criteria:
- Minimal note-taking overhead: Doesn’t take too much time to create notes. (Esp for complex math expressions)
- Easy to reference: The notes should be brief and easy to comprehend at a glance. They should also be searchable.
- Easy to store: Minimal physical presence. I tend to lose papers all the time.
I especially liked what @mifuyne@beehaw.org and @higgsbi@beehaw.org said. Put both together. That I mean essentially hand written notes as needed (the tab is a nice idea) and take notes at the correct level of details. Or you can just use you pen an paper like I did in school. Taking notes at the correct level of detail and then distilling them was always part of my learning process.
In terms of distilling, I felt I was done when I got everything I needed to know on 1 8.5 x 11 sheet both sides for every exam. Then finals, I distilled my exam sheets to one sheet again.
The working of problems that @luciole@beehaw.org mentioned too should be part of this too of course. This could be course work or stuff you think up yourself or just make the book examples work.
Anyway my thought, but maybe things are different now. This was a long time ago for me though I still learn things this way. Though I guess now I put a lot of stuff in Zim but that does not work for things you cannot type.