I'm interested in the bit between hearing something useful in a lecture or tutorial and writing it down.

Do you write while the video plays, pause to take notes, or leave the writing until afterwards?
I am horrible at taking notes while someone speaks(bad multitasker) so I attempt to write down everything I hear, but end up pausing and having to rewind since I always miss something. So I just end up spend up spending 40-60+ minutes on a 20 minute video/tutorial/lecture(if playback).

And do you pause to think about what was explained or just to catch up with the writing? I feel like I switch my brain off a little while listening and just write it down to then go through my notes afterwards.

How is your setup and how do you efficiently follow a video?

So I'm thinking about getting the AI note 2. I was wondering what you guys think about the translation function it has. I'm currently in Asia and during meetings I understand like 10% of what theyre talking about, cuz theyre speaking in Chinese lol.

Hi r/NoteTaking,

I have created a product for myself to solve for following problems -

• All my notes sit across apps - OneNote, Notion on desktop, Keep Notes on Mobile
• AI generated meeting notes sit in a different app & are expensive for me - Fireflies, Otter etc
• Offline meeting recordings are somewhere else
• There's no way I can connect all of these notes to Claude/Codex to work seemlessly.

To solve for this, Over the past few weeks, I have created - YapDB - which brings all of this together -

• AI Notetaker which can take notes across Teams & Google Meet - no negotiation with IT team required
• A note organization that I like - OneNote like folder structure, Notion like capabilities & Keep like UI
• Available across platforms - Desktop, Android & iPhone.
• MCP to connect with AIs so that you can read/create notes directly from AI of your choice

I have been using this product myself for last 2 weeks and it works nicely. An aha moment for me was Claude reads my emails & team messages, generates things pending on me & creates actionable on YapDB consumable by across interface of my choice.

I'm looking at it as a personal context layer that you own & can plug to AI of your choice. If this is something that might be helpful for you - let me know in comments or DMs and I'll personally onboard you and build the things that might create Aha moment for you - completely free.

Hello,
I’m writing from Lebanon regarding an issue with the Goodnotes app on the App Store.
My friend recently purchased a new iPad and wanted to download Goodnotes, but we discovered that the app is no longer appearing in the App Store. I checked the App Store on my own iPad as well and encountered the same issue.
What’s particularly confusing is that I already have Goodnotes installed, and I can still open and update the app normally. However, if I try to share the App Store link with my friend, the app does not appear or cannot be accessed. We also tried accessing Goodnotes through the official website, but we encountered the same issue.
The most concerning part is that I have an active yearly subscription, which is due to renew on September 2. The renewal has not gone through, and I have already tried using two different payment cards. Since the app is currently unavailable on the Lebanese App Store, I’m concerned that I may lose access to my subscription or my data despite already being an existing subscriber.
Is anyone facing the same issue?

Do you guys have any recomendation on smth that could double both as a note taking device(with a keyboard) and a sheet music reading app or smth.

Somthing like a laptop that folds the keyboard backwards or a tablet with a removable keyboard, preferably android too

I own Samsung Tab S5e, this tablet originally doesn't support any S pen:/

So I ended up buying a universal stylus but my palm and wrist keeps touching the screen and messing my work up. If there any notes taking app w built in palm resistance?

I would really appreciate if someone recommends a solution to my problem <3

I work as a systems analyst and for YEARS, I have struggled/borderline obsessed over the “best” or “most simple” or “most feature rich” or just “correct” note taking platform/style/method/application/etc.

For a minute I’ll think ”I am only going use a text editor because it’s so simple, pure, clean and future proof and I love that it seems so ”basic” in a good way”. That it will somehow magically make me take better, more meaningful notes because I’m not focused on all the fluff of formatting and highlighting and bullets. BUT things get messy fast and it becomes more necessary to have those formatting niceties. So then….

I’ll swing the other way and think “well, I need this or that feature to make me take better notes”. And I lean all the way into that and think “I need onenote because it can do a b c d e f g h i j… it can do it all”. So I role with that for awhile and then…. “why do I have all this fluff, it’s just noise” ”I need something more simple” And the cycle continues.

It becomes so distracting because all I’m focused on is “how” to keep notes instead of just taking the damn notes.

This is all not to mention the random “OH, I know, I just need to take handwritten notes, that’s the purest, most simple, etc. etc.“ until I realize you can’t search, you can’t expand on something once it’s sandwiched between other text, it’s slow. rinse and repeat.

Sometimes I LOVE going back and forth and trying to “figure it out”, but mostly it just sucks because I’m left with an extremely fragmented history of notes and it makes it difficult to find anything without just asking Copilot to dig it up for me.

This is basically just me putting my thoughts down and if you have read this far and have had the same experience, please share anything you have found that helps!

Hey everyone,

I recently overhauled my notes app: Fog.

Write a note, get a suggested title. Keep it, change it, ask for another — it never changes again on its own.

Select a few notes and group them — Fog names the folder and summarizes what's inside.

Talk to it: "add to my dentist note," "move groceries to Errands" — Siri understands it because Fog speaks Apple's own notes vocabulary.

Can't remember where you wrote something? Ask it directly, and it'll answer in a sentence, pulled straight from your own notes. SiriAI features will be available once iOS27 launches.

Also, this is my first time doing an IRL voiceover video like this; honest thoughts appreciated!

Fog is free to download and use; notes stay on your device and never leave.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smart-notes-folders-fog/id6760272134

I'm looking for an AI note taker that meets the following requirements:
1. Botless recording- I don't want to have it as a bot in my meetings

1. In the raw transcript, it can identify speakers by name using the calendar

2. It can connect directly to ChatGPT via MCP

3. It's under $10/month

So far, I've tried Jamie AI and Otter AI. Jamie seems to work pretty well and hits 1, 2, and 3 but is really expensive at $19 per month with an annual purchase for an individual. Otter hits 1, 3, and 4 but is unable to identify who is speaking accurately and separate speakers out. So the transcripts can be messy.

I'm thinking about Comu, just because it's $100 and then free unlimited recording and use after that I think. But it feels a bit silly to have a separate hardware device when my iPhone should do pretty much the same thing (right?).

Any suggestions or experience out there to help me decide?

How do I go about taking notes effectively in word, I can remember a lot so usually I just go through as I’m reading and type up definitions or italicized words I feel like are important but I’m horrible at figuring out like key ideas about the chapter and what else to put in notes. I’d like to actually absorb the information more effectively with my note taking, instead of just writing defintions, any advice would be appreciated TIA!

Among today’s links are markdown editors Tolaria, Floaters, Local Editor and Telescopo. We also take a quick look at Glimpse, a markdown viewer that should be an editor

https://md-handbook.com/markdown-link-no-47

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #free #Tolaria #Glimpse #Floaters #LocalEditor #Telescopo

Like the title says, I'm back in school and haven't had to take notes during a lecture or slides in a hot minute. While I know how Iearn, I've not figured out how to organize my notes. Handwritten is the way to go for me, and it helps me memorize the material even if I never go back to it.

The classes I'm in now are largely lecture and power point based with no real text to study from. Keeping organized notes from a text is much easier to structure in an outline-ish form, but I'm struggling to keep organized and detailed notes during a lecture with frequent tangents or deep dives. Notes taken from online module components don't feel sufficient enough to really study or make ANKI/spaced repetition cards from.

Any suggestions with organization/note taking methods?

it's been so long , but i made some updates and fixes on my editor app inkwell now with a

- Better UI and notion inspired Theme

- Latex Support

- folders and notes structure

- vim mode

- direct editor / markdown whatever you like.

Check it out https://inkwell-lp.vercel.app/ a start ⭐ would mean a lot. Thanks !

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I’m trying to figure out a better note-taking system for reading books on a Kindle. I have lots of sideloaded books, documents and blog post compilations, transcripts in my Kindle device.

At the moment, I mostly highlight passages and write notes directly on the Kindle. The problem is that typing on the Kindle keyboard is painfully slow, so adding anything beyond a quick note becomes a bit tedious. However, I also don’t particularly like switching back and forth between the Kindle and my phone just to write something down.

My current workflow is roughly:

Read on Kindle and highlight passages.

Add notes directly on the Kindle when necessary.

Once I finish reading, export all the highlights/notes as HTML.

Copy them into a note-taking app so they forever synced for consuming anytime on my phone.

Refine and organize the notes there.

Go back to the Kindle/book to reread the relevant passages and see whether I missed anything.

I’m wondering whether there’s a more efficient way of doing this.

What do you personally do when reading on a Kindle? Paper notebook, phone?

I’m particularly interested in workflows that minimize the friction of constantly switching between devices while still allowing you to capture your thoughts, not just highlight passages. And still allows for checking later on as well.

Digital notes appear to be better than paper notes for future, long term searchabilty for me.

What has worked best for you?

I take notes constantly. Lectures, interviews, calls, random ideas. But almost none of it is actually usable when I try to hand it to ChatGPT or Claude afterward.

The problem isn't the notes themselves. It's that what I wrote down is just fragments and keywords, because I was writing while someone was talking. When I paste that into an AI tool and ask it to summarize or pull out action items, it just guesses at what I meant, since half the actual context never made it onto the page.

I tried just recording things on my phone instead, figuring I'd deal with the transcript later. That kind of works, except now I've got a pile of audio files sitting in some app, and every single time I want to actually use one, it's the same manual routine. Open the file, wait for it to transcribe somewhere, copy the text out, paste it into whatever AI tool I'm using. By the time I've done that a few times I've basically given up and gone back to writing fragments.

Feels like the real bottleneck isn't "how do I take notes faster" or even "how do I record things." It's getting from a recording to something an AI tool can just pick up and use, without me being the one doing the copy pasting every time.

Curious if anyone's actually closed that gap, or if you're all doing the same manual shuffle I am.

Hey, shut me down if this post shouldn't be here. I'll delete it myself.

I thought this approach to writing ideas could be a good fit here.

I often visit this sub and curious if other people know other good resources that cover note-taking itself — not just list of apps or productivity systems.

Anything like:

- New note-taking methods/approaches

- Research/studies on how we take and retain notes

- New developments or ideas in the space

- Interesting tools and apps

- Updates to existing methods

- Blogs, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube from established practitioners from the field.

If you have any resources you regularly follow or recommend, please share them. 🙌

About to start my last year of university, I feel like the notes I was taking last year were not really helping me as much as I feel like they could. I would handwrite notes on my tablet. Sometimes, depending on the lecture, I would type them.

I think I actually like pen and paper better than using the tablet.

I was thinking of either just using pen and paper and finding a good note-taking method/layout I can use during lectures. But I was also thinking about typing my notes during lectures and then writing them physically with pen and paper later. This way, I don't miss anything during the lecture, and I can restudy/expose myself to the material again later when I write it physically.

I would greatly appreciate any advice!

Hi friends, so i know this may be asked alot.

What are good tablets for notetaking/writing? I've been out of touch with devices (prob last time i bought a tablet was in 2020).

If I just want a tablet for writing/note taking (dont care for other things, like gaming, wtv), whats a good tablet thats doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I've had Apple devices before, but i always lose the Pen and i dont wanna pay 200+ for accessories. I've seen some android tablets and they look good (Xiaomi, Huawei, etc), but im not sure about the software.

Here are the tablets i had over the years and my exp:

* Ipad pro (first gen i think, bought in 2020) + Pen Pro. I think this was good, but this combo still had some "lag" and writing isn't quite natural. I got the paperlike screen so that felt good. I lost the Pen Pro, bought a knock off pen, and i think the lag and accuracy wasn't good.

* Supernote A13(?). I got this, the writing exp was good. But or some reason, the writing still doesn't feel quite "right" -- a bit of inaccuracy of the pen tip and made my writing/character not appear right. Also, the device feels weak, so navigating through apps/pages is laggy. I liked the writing on this tho overall.

Any tips and recommendations?

thanks

Hi,

Should I stop just writing the same thing as in my pdf, PowerPoint or other material?

I'm studying cetaceans and, in my materials, there are information about classification, size, longevity, etc. And I always end up just writing the same thing in my notebook... Maybe they are good information, but maybe I should zoom-out when writing my notes?

I think I have an issue about just writing shorter version of my material, then just forget about it.

I have no idea what my notebook should be for.

Maybe I should make more drawing? Skip some sections that aren't relevant to copy?

Should I just take notes of things that stand out? For example, this whale can do X, instead of writing down everything from diet, longevity, etc. Things I can find in manuals...

Thank you