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I've always found that it's the act of actually "processing" the information that helps with my retention and understanding.

Most of my notes (especially in college) are short sentences / random words with arrow to other rows (with most of my notes being incomprehensible to even myself after some time).

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I had one course in engineering school (ethics I think), that had us take shorthand notes in class, then re-write into long-form in a separate notebook to be submitted at the end of the semester. It was super effective at driving home the lessons since the act of translating short-form to long-form required (re)comprehension of the material.

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