Copy and pasting lecture slides into seprate notes

Knowledge management
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Ive been using obsidian for computer science for around 3 years now and i am wondering if there is any point in taking lecture notes for every single slide. the first year of university i was able to and it helped me a little but going into the end of 2nd semester the ammount of slides have increased by a lot. Is there any better way i can be taking these notes? most of the things this year is just building upon the first year and it is really starting to eat my time by reading the notes then creating notes on each concept

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i find it’s helpful to think of these notes as archives and the sooner you get into a system of annotating and marking them as archived, you probably won’t need to look at them again. That’s kind of the point. What is important to keep around is exactly how your notes were structured and archived in case you do need to ever reopen these.

I’ve gotten to where i just keep a folder in a vault called Archives/YYYY/MM/ and i’ve found that most of my notes end up going in here. I archive the by the date they’re archived in the folder, and then keep date created/updated logs in the metadata/yaml.

I really wish i had all my notes going back to university days and early work career in this way. otherwise i’d just get annoyed/overwhelmed and deleted stuff that i kinda wish i still had now.

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Isn’t that time consuming ?

or do you get a .pdf of all the slides before the class ?

Time is valuable.

What are your structures (YAML, folders, tags, etc) that you are using to organize your computer science notes ?

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Do you have a copy of the slides?

Maybe you can keep them as ‘reference’ and only create notes for things you believe to be necessary?

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i get .pdf slides for the lectures but type them out into individual file, i am about to create some sort of better system for organizing them but i do use folders split into the different classes and class weeks.

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I just find it a bit harder using the lecture slides imo as sometimes they can overcomplicate stuff that is simple

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What about something like this ?

or this

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I’m kind of in a similar situation too.

I don’t have slides, but I used to copy/type the text from pdf version of text books alongside class notes and gradually edit them every time I review.

But now I find reviewing that whole thing tedious, so I’m planning to keep those notes as ‘Source/Reference’ and create my own notes on topics which need it (Important stuff I want to remember).

My suggestion was for you to just keep the slides as they are (.ppt) as a reference, and only create notes for stuff you feel needs a note. Simplifying things have the risk of losing information if you are not careful, and this way you have resource at hand if needed. Plus, the process of actively processing/thinking about which parts of the information you need to make a note for and how can be helpful for learning.

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oo this seems good, thank you so much