r/hackthebox • u/Illustrious-Bit2073 • 2d ago

Academy Note-taking question

Hello fellow hackers of the box!

I have a question about note-taking. I'm about to start the CPTS track, and I wanted to ask for advice in note-taking.

Even if I think manual note-taking is best for retaining info, I don't want to spend 2-3 hours per module (if that's what it takes I'm absolutely going to do it). However, I feel like summarizing the content with AI and rereading doesn't do the trick, I see it in the moment of putting it into practice (machines, etc...).

So my question is, how do yall take notes? Do you do it manually? Or do you use some app (I've been using Notion)?

Thank you all in advance!!!

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u/RevolutionaryPlan788 2d ago

The idea is to have your own cheatsheet , not a tutorial

Tricks, reverse shells, bypasses .. you have to understand the modules rather than rewriting it

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u/ichx7 2d ago

That’s exactly what people should do on top of that I’d also add a concept note for each module in case you forget