Do you take notes while learning? What's your process?

✍ Taking notes is an essential part of my learning process. It helps me visualize clearly and emphasize the key points of what I learned. While following a course or a tutorial, I first go through the content once. Afterward, I go through the entire course again, but this time I make handwritten notes.

Why handwritten notes? Well, it allows me to write freely, draw quick diagrams, mental models, and unleash my creativity with doodles.

Do you take notes while learning? Share your process.
What is the most effective way of note-taking?
Thoughts on handwritten vs digital note-taking.

Most of the notes I take are about things I plan to use somehow. This is for 'random' reading, not in a school context.

For example, I might find some tool to better monitor Kubernetes clusters, and I'll copy-paste that into a document about that topic.

Or I might find some cool feature in an obscure programming language, and decide I may want to implement that one day. I have a whole bunch of documents for that topic.

I don't really write things down if I don't think I can take action on them at some point. Maybe I should though, just to remember better.

If I'm not on my PC, I'll often put the notes on my task list, and organize them later.

I can totally relate to this. I have bookmarked hundreds of random things that I feel I will need someday. Thanks for sharing. 🤗

When I am not sitting at the PC, I write everything down. Just so it doesn't have to be in my head.

When I am sitting at the PC, I often use my blog (not Hashnode's, because I write more in German). I see my blog more as my notebook, as a point of contact for potential visitors or customers. It's just always a coincidence when someone writes me an email or comment and then thanks me for the content because he had exactly the same problem and found a solution with me.

But I must also say that I am not the creative type. Therefore I do not write creative posts and new approaches. So I am glad that there are people like here on Hashnode. You can read in creative thoughts and you can put the found gold mines here on Hashnode into the bookmarks.

Thanks for sharing your perspective. 😊

Rutik Wankhade,

Somehow nostalgic about hand-written notes taking..

But realized that, translating the notes into an actionable item is way difficult and time consuming. Hence started this,

Taking notes on github by creating readme.md file. I create private projects like js-notes, gardening-notes etc. and each of these projects have logical folders and readmes inside to capture related notes. I can also maintain revisions of those easily there. Attaching code snippet is also easy that way.
Then I translate the actionable items to the tool(notion I use) to have required follow ups.

Looking for some good, free github => notion integration such that, I can create issues in github from my notes and that automatically creates the tasks in notion to have follow-ups. This gives me some hope about it!

Using readme files to take notes is a good idea. I tend to create a list of resources that I find helpful on GitHub readmes.

While learning something I first make handwritten notes and then I copy those notes on my computer this time in a organized format.

Notion is best for organizing notes online. Try it out.

Yup, it's awesome! I use it already. Rutik Wankhade

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