Poll: For physics and math, Notebook vs Loose leaf papers

[pines-demon]

What about putting notebooks inside a binder?

 

[AndreasC]

The answer is tablets with a stylus. It saves you from wasting tons of paper, carrying around notebooks and forgetting where you wrote things. Plus you can easily copy/paste and erase things.

 

[Klystron]

Since you asked,

I used college-ruled 3 and 4 subject spiral notebooks for lecture notes. Loose sheets and papr handouts fit in the cardboard pockets that divide the subjects. Spiral notebooks travel well in a bookbag, plus I found studying my notes in sequence helped memory.

University policy mandated standard black 'composition notebooks' for lab notes. I preferred graph paper versions for physics labs. Come to think of it, I also used graph paper spiral notebooks for STEM subjects, that is, one or two sections were graph paper.

Call me old fashioned but I used yellow A4 legal pads secured in a clipboard for most math homework handwritten using #2 sharpened pencils. I would paste in graphs and computer printouts, as required.

As I worked full time as a software engineer at NASA to put myself through uni, the official looking clipboard helped disguise my homework from prying busybodies. (Managment knew and approved my working on STEM homework as long as my teams met deadlines and software exceeded requirements.)