What notetaking method do you recommend for this class? (see details)

Do you print these out? If you do you might want to go with the scissors and glue stick method.

And I do the same thing. When I take notes in class I get them on the computer. Writing it twice helps me remember.

Yes, I will be printing the notes out at the end of the year (sometimes, a professor will lecture on something and then add a few remarks on the topic a couple weeks later). However, there will simply be too many charts for me to go and cut them out and paste them onto the printed notes. Thanks anyways.

Can you not copy the charts, but instead input the info in some other way?

I could only think of the three ways mentioned in my post. I don’t have a drawing tablet or anything other than a mouse and a keyboard.

@weeveeship No, no, no – I mean, when he draws a chart, can you type that info in instead of drawing it. I mean, like for this I would type it as:
1. Star Trek TOS Love Interests:
A. Kirk – 12
B. Spock – 4
C. Chekov – 2
D. The rest, but I’m kinda lazy right now, you get the picture.

What kind of info is he illustrating? Can you give me an example of these charts?

Oh, I see. Well, I am more of a visual learner and would prefer to keep his charts as charts.

@weeveeship What about mind-mapping software?

that would be visio, option 2

@weeveeship Can you use a different software than Visio?

@weeveeship, have you ever taken notes in the Cornell Note format? There templates for word. If your drawings are suitable for visio, I would recreate them in visio and imbed the drawing in a word document as a chart. The act of creating the visio is a method of studying the material; you are focused on the content and the relationships during the process of mapping the relationships.

Can you ask you professor for a copy of his original charts? Just talk to him after class and mention that you’ve been hand drawing the charts, but you are trying to find a better way to organize your notes and ask if it would be possible to get a copy of them.

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I second Livescribe. I know many people who use it for detail heavy work and they find it indispensable.

@BarnacleBill I like the Cornell Note method, and I actually use it for tow classes that are less detail-intensive.

@everyone If you want to see an example of what one of the charts look like, click on link. The chart on “pedipalps” shown on that web site is almost exactly like my professor’s charts, except that my professor’s charts are more detailed (i.e. if my professor was actually drawing the chart in the link, he would also list details for each of the three categories in the “pedipalps” chart)

huh?