Ask HN: Recommended notes tools or methods for taking class notes

There probably are. But consider taking paper notes, and then selectively transcribing if you must.

Depending on where you end up, you may be required to keep a paper engineering notebook, issued and owned by the company. You may as well get good at it now.

Besides, diagramming and charting from head to paper is much quicker than fiddling with some drawing package.

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Evernote has OCR capabilities I think. You can take a photo of notes and it's searchable.