Speak for yourself mate.

Yeah, they don’t need them in Melbourne.

And it’s always Bob from Accounting who ends up swinging their sack around in the end.

To the desert perchance?

I’m a nodder. Consequently I’m also shit at taking notes but engage in the class instead and remember it more from pictures in my mind i.e. a visual learner. I also ask questions. It works for me, at least in subjects I’m interested in - at least up to MSc level. If it’s something I’m not interested in, even notes won’t help! In one ear and out the other.

When teaching/presenting, knowing that people pick things up in different ways, I offer both a visual presentation and a paper version with key points I’m talking about so the note-takers can write on something (even if they were just going to fill up a notebook anyway!