[IUHoosiergirl88]

In high school, it's going to be hard to experiment with various types of note-taking styles--but in college, I'd really recommend trying different things based on the professor. In my science-based classes, all my professors provided powerpoint lecture slides, which made it easier to focus on the professor, draw pictures, etc. But in my history/political science classes, it was much more discussion based and more likely that i'd be taking notes on what they actually say. It was also much more likely that those professors would ban laptops/cell phones, so you had to be quick on the notes.

I would definitely recommend more thorough notes if the professor has open note exams, which many of my social science professors did (since notes were less helpful on essay-based exams)