My biggest problem with taking paper notes is that my handwriting is near illegible. That and i tend to only take standard outline-format notes rather than how any of my teachers take notes in a free flowing mind-map pattern. I write slowly and messily, and often dont understand a word of what I wrote or why I wrote it.
My solution is to take notes on the computer itself, for example by opening up microsoft one note and the teacher's powerpoint and just taking little text box notes everywhere. However, this only works as long as there are no diagrams to be drawn. Being in classes like Physics and Linear analog circuits, the drawings arent just simple squares and circles either, and i dont have the time in the middle of note taking to open up a drawing program, muck about, and then somehow import the drawing into onenote and take more notes on it.
Is there a way you guys know of to take better notes on a computer (without buying a $3000 tablet to further add to my crappy writing with bad un-antialiased microsoft proprietary text)?
I was thinking there might be some way to take a picture with my android phone and have it automatically show up on my computer, possibly within onenote if not as a simple jpeg. Or maybe there is some sort of pen that I can connect via USB and have it draw directly on my screen when I need a note (but not a wacom tablet).
So far i've just conceded to taking notes on lined paper and dealing with the crappy quality, though next time i buy a notebook it wont have lines so I can concentrate on taking free-form notes as if I'm writing on a mini whiteboard.
