[Trippytiger]

Notebooks all the way. I call them my anti-note-losing-devices. I'm not nearly organized enough to manage looseleaf paper and binders - I just throw the paper in the binder and ignore the rings and dividers, which results in a lot of lost notes. Always the ones I really, really need, too...

It is a hassle when the end of the year rolls around and I'm running out of paper, but at least I know where the notes I took at the beginning are.

 

[Jmmmmm]

I use loose leaf because my lecture notes need to be in order, and I don't go to many classes, so my notes would jump around too much.

Loose leaf in a binder allows me to go back and stick notes in the appropriate date.

 

[saturnine]

Notebook. Computer that is

I used a mic to record lectures while doing other stuff (sometimes related to classwork

). Of course, this is when I was in college. In HS, I never really took notes & truely couldn't care less at the time

 

[akwok]

I use 5 of these per term, one for each course:

http://www.shoplet.com/office/db/MEA06081.html

Love em, I don't think I will change brands for a while.

 

[FalconP]

In my days: foolscap papers hashed in large folders.

Today's students: digital camera and voice-recording device.
Indeed why take notes when the profs' powerpoint printouts are yours for the asking?

 

[raymondlin]

I mp3 my lectures.

 

[hulkster]

loose-leaf, in binder. So much more flexible than just a notebook....pouches to stick handouts without holes, ability ot reorder pages, it just plain works!

 

[Azure]

Notebooks - Helps me keep everything organized and easy to find.

 

[apnk]

Filler paper.

 

[majid]

Nowadays I use large squared Moleskine notebooks to take meeting notes, but back when I was in college, I would use loose-leaf. Then again, it was so brutal i would go through a 250-sheet pack every 2 weeks or so. Later, I also summarized the notes into A5 bristol cards, the act of summarizing was an excellent was to reacquaint myself with the material and have quick study flashcards.

 

[MASantos]

I use a laptop nowadays. Since we have wireless all over the campus it can also browse headfi when I'm in class( the boring ones!!!)

I find that a laptop is great, especialy in finance classes, the teacher uses excel all the time and we share documents all the time during class.

During high school I had a small notebook for each course.

 

[Jubei]

Always have preferred notebooks - and I used to keep notes on all courses on one notebook. Would then go home and add comments to the lecture notes. This way I only needed to carry one notebook per term, and I would always have all the material on hand. So say if a friend was late for dinner, I could whip out the notebook and basically look at any info. Loose leaf is too messy and it used often the holes normally tear.

At work, I still use notebooks. But now I prefer them smaller is size - so I use good quality Japanese B5 size notebooks. Japanese notebooks have superior binding and top quality paper - perfect for rolling ball pens because the ink does not smudge.

I also have a plastic interchangable cover for the notebooks with a ziplock pocket on the front. Very useful for storing small pieces of notes, business cards, receipts and bills.

 

[Teerawit]

notebooks. they keep everything bound nicely. and when the class is over, you have everything bound together for easy waste disposal or storage.

filler paper is a hassle for me because those 3-ring binder rings usually don't close perfectly after a while.

 

[granodemostasa]

i use my laptop


what type of barbarian would use a carbon based writing system? what century do you think we're in?

 

[Laptopia]

Quote:

Originally Posted by granodemostasa i use my laptop what type of barbarian would use a carbon based writing system? what century do you think we're in?

Where I work (and I think it's a typical workplace), if you brought a laptop into a work meeting and started banging away on that to take notes, you would:
1) be the only one in a large room doing so;
2) be asked to cease and desist by the meeting leader.

It's disruptive.

Use a Moleskine, if it's something worth writing down.