Personally I think it takes more than a note taking process, there has to be some personal intrinsic motivation to understand and a genuine desire to know. Otherwise its just test cramming and will be forgotton soon after.
In my experience we often missed things, because there was too much info, so it was very hard to copy the info and pay attention at the same time.
It would have been much better to get a copy of the notes beforehand and add only my observations, making it personal.
I went back to college late in life and now with cellphones and cloud storage people often recorded lectures with permission. One person used OBS most others used their mobile phone's note recorder app. Many used Microsoft OneNote (free Office 365 with tuition) to record and photos of whiteboard notes and diagrams. OneNote can OCR the text and even adjust skew of the image.
I still wrote my own notes though at first hand written because I wrote in cursive which is far faster than block printing. But I was persuaded by the masses typed my notes into a document on my laptop. I regret that now because I noticed a significant difference in retention between hand-written versus typed. When I wrote by hand I recalled much more of the material.
And take this with a grain of salt because I'm friggin' old.
Exactly, that's why I said everyone should get a copy of the official notes beforehand and write down their own notes on them.
It's much more efficient than slavishly copying everything you hear, making it harder to pay attention.
Just listening doesn't work as well for most people.
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.
At that point, I can refactor my notes including the professor's outline, adding details I missed or elaborating on parts of the outline that might have been sparse.