The Cornell Note-taking System (2001) • Hacker News Board

Re: The Cornell Note-taking System (2001)

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Post by ubermonkey » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:59 PM UTC

Jach wrote: post #40

ubermonkey wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is like peak HN contrarianism right here.

I've never used note taking and I don't miss it.

You're very special.

Most people find it helpful. If I had a coworker on a team in a dev meeting, and they didn't take any notes, though, I'd be super suspicious they weren't going to retain all the important parts.

Re: The Cornell Note-taking System (2001)

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Post by jay3ss » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #31

chadlavi wrote: post #21

Using this system would mean dedicating a total of at least 3x the length of each lecture to a given topic per day. With 3-4 classes per day, you wouldn't have time to do anything else and also sleep.

Who takes 4 classes per day in college? A full load when I was in school was 12-15 hours of lecture time per week.

A full load is 12 credit hours per week (at the schools I attended in the US), but there were plenty of people who took more than that. At some schools the tuition caps out at a certain amount of credit hours (12 where I went) and you can take courses beyond that amount and it doesn't cost extra (in terms of money at least).

Re: The Cornell Note-taking System (2001)

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Post by Jach » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

ubermonkey wrote: post #41

Jach wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never used note taking and I don't miss it.

You're very special. Most people find it helpful. If I had a coworker on a team in a dev meeting, and they didn't take any notes, though, I'd be super suspicious they weren't going to retain all the important parts.

Sorry, bad attempt to humorously go even beyond the previous peak. ("I've never used/seen x and I don't miss it" -- so how would you even know anything about the value of x -- is a sentiment seen on many HN programming language threads.) I do occasionally take notes. For meetings specifically, notes of them tend to serve first the function of a discussion log, second as reminders either to follow up on something or to transfer anything really important to a more structured form of knowledge share like documentation, a titled google doc, or the details section of a specific work item.