[ralphc]

I graduated college in 1984, so my note taking was entirely pen & paper. What's the norm in college nowadays? Is everyone banging away on laptops? That seems like it would be distracting to me. If it is laptops, what software do people use? Simple text editor, Word...?

[nicbou]

When I was in university a few years ago, laptops were very common, but most still used paper.

Yeah, it was distracting. I spent more time writing my own note-taking tool than I did listening in class. It went poorly.