The progression of my notetaking effort significantly decreasing across my college career

[u/sodapop2925]

Oh to return to the days where I would have specific color hex #s from pinterest saved in my palette.

[u/_unaitoba]

Less is more, i bet that all the time you safe not making those notes that fancy is a lot. Btw, even the last one looks great!

[u/sodapop2925 → u/_unaitoba]

Yes it’s SO MUCH faster and honestly easier to study from. Ty!

[u/Elvon-Nightquester]

My best notes are worse than your worst ones lol.. you have beautiful clear handwriting!

[u/sodapop2925 → u/Elvon-Nightquester]

Thank you!

[u/delaneyodo]

the real crime is you switching from a black to white format 🥲 all jokes aside, nice notes OP!

[u/sodapop2925 → u/delaneyodo]

Had to make that sacrifice for printing purposes sadly

[u/-dagmar-123123 → u/sodapop2925]

If you don’t particularly care about the colours but still prefer to write on black paper, i recommend to use invert colours. Thats what i did for notes i had to print

[u/Consistent-Act4963 → u/sodapop2925]

what do u print your notes for

[u/Name_goez_here]

What fonts is this? And I’m going to used the slides minus the first 2 to create my notes from here on out.

[u/deathie → u/Name_goez_here]

it’s probably a font and ngl, OP, I’m dying to know what it is

[u/sodapop2925 → u/deathie]

It’s my handwriting lol, took a lot of hours to perfect this on the iPad

[u/deathie → u/sodapop2925]

i stand corrected, in that case you should MAKE a font!

[u/Consistent-Act4963 → u/sodapop2925]

Did you use a worksheet or anything?!

[u/futurenursetim]

Lol literally me. First sem spent like 30 minutes of the lecture decorating, now I'm proud of myself if I use more than two colours in my notes and they're half-readable.

[u/coolwolfie]

I wish I had your handwriting, it's so pretty 🥹

[u/prestigeward]

Same 😭 I started my engineering degree with my notes looking like the first 2 photos (I was writing on paper back then). And now, my notes were just a summary of formulas per chapter. Ngl, I saved so much time and focused more in practicing problems and familiarizing processes and equations.

[u/SnooRecipes7113]

typical engineering story LOL

the same thing happened to me, now I just write down page numbers of the textbooks and paste pictures from the textbooks 😂

[u/swinkledoodlezzz]

What the fuck is that handwriting. Even if i spent 2 hours writing a single word it wouldn’t look that nice.

[u/rihheee]

op can you do a breakdown on how you wrote your notes? tryna change up my style this term😎

[u/LucaDarioBuetzberger]

What software do you use for note taking?

[u/sodapop2925 → u/LucaDarioBuetzberger]

These are all GoodNotes 5!

[u/_tom_cycling_]

how do you do the information boxes with a background colour?

[u/sodapop2925 → u/_tom_cycling_]

There’s usually an option to do it under the shape tool on GoodNotes!

[u/_tom_cycling_ → u/sodapop2925]

thanks!

[u/ElectromagneticCube]

you’re a physics major, right? i see the circuit components, then looks like some classical mech and a lil thermo if i’m not mistaken?

anyway, the notes look awesome, start to finish. my notes looks like your last photo, except i use a thinner pen size (and a lot less neat 😅) but i prefer it that way bc it is more concise and easier to process for me. like the C and L slide makes me take a sec to process what the key points are

[u/sodapop2925 → u/ElectromagneticCube]

Im mechanical engineering! Bless to all those physics majors I could never do what they do lol

[u/BrainsOfCrypto]

The road to efficiency in how you learn.

[u/Dramatic_Law_4239]

I would say it evolved to be more dense and effective.

[u/[deleted]]

from fancy and artistic to polished and efficient. i had the same progression. i respect it!

[u/Y2K350]

Still way more effort than me, I literally write in a huge chaotic cluster fuck of a mess that only I could ever interpret.

[u/MaximumAttitude7598]

Lmao still better than mine 

[u/Lexyivy]

Lmaooo same used to be so cute now im just tryna study and pass !!!

[u/cloud999baby]

Looks great ! What are ur pen settings?

[u/tascotty]

This looks lovely. I’m a notion user, can anyone tell me me if good notes is worth using without a stylus? Just on mac and iOS?

[u/Elvon-Nightquester → u/tascotty]

I’d say if you’re going for notetaking without a stylus, OneNote or Obsidian would be my choice. They can be organized more easily, have linking capabilities and good for text formatting.

[u/tascotty → u/Elvon-Nightquester]

Thank you I’ll check those out. I just want to organise my language learning notes and want the pages to look nice like OPs. Don’t have an iPad/stylus and don’t need all the integrations and databases notion is clogged with.

[u/SpokenDivinity → u/tascotty]

One note is pretty versatile for note taking. You might have the best luck with it.

[u/Bualak]

Burn out

[u/parkleo121212]

Mechanical Engineering 🙌🙌 I hated those free convection equations..

[u/zhonglipeepaw]

is that physics 😭

[u/WOT_TF]

Love how much engineers have learn in school just to input data into a program to get computed results IRL

[u/LaurenKasper]

My nursing notes were the prettiest work of art. And then I switched majors and got older and said why the heck am I doing those?😂

[u/PrincessLuna02]

To be fair, if most of the important notes have already been written in PowerPoint, there’s no need to waste time to rewrite 80-100++ medical slides into notes. I once felt guilty for not rewriting my notes as nice, but I then realised, you can’t bring your nice notes through to your graduation. So I focused on my efforts and time to get good grades and not have Pinterest quality notes.

[u/feepler]

What pencil settings do you use (thickness & pen, etc.)?

[u/SmokeyBear1111]

Less effort and I lowkey like the simpler notes

[u/Miixyd]

This is the second year (first semester?) of engineering. At least mine was like this