My methodology became sustainable when I stopped taking notes [1] and accepted that learning happens through repetition.
Which is to say, rereading and multiple sources spread over time is much much more effective...and rereading and repetition from multiple sources is what note taking is.
But only if you go back and read your notes. And I didn't. So I stopped taking them.
What I realize now, writing this, is my note taking was driven by fear of missing out. That's how we are taught in school. If you don't take notes during the lecture, you will miss what you need to know for the test.
Life after school isn't that way. There's no final exams every sixteen weeks, no pop quiz on Tuesday, and no problem set tonight...or at least it's all optional.
And on the bright side, to a first approximation life entails missing out on almost everything. Time on Physics is time away from poetry, geology, and the pub.
Good luck.
[1]: I still make actionable notes. And I still make notes of my potentially actionable ideas.
Which is to say, rereading and multiple sources spread over time is much much more effective...and rereading and repetition from multiple sources is what note taking is.
But only if you go back and read your notes. And I didn't. So I stopped taking them.
What I realize now, writing this, is my note taking was driven by fear of missing out. That's how we are taught in school. If you don't take notes during the lecture, you will miss what you need to know for the test.
Life after school isn't that way. There's no final exams every sixteen weeks, no pop quiz on Tuesday, and no problem set tonight...or at least it's all optional.
And on the bright side, to a first approximation life entails missing out on almost everything. Time on Physics is time away from poetry, geology, and the pub.
Good luck.
[1]: I still make actionable notes. And I still make notes of my potentially actionable ideas.