Take note: academic note-taking and annotation behavior

Note taking is a technique for capturing information about an event or an experience in a form that has meaning to the note taker. This paper examines note taking in academic conferences, as a first step to designing tools to share notes (where personal notes/annotations can be useful to others). Three data gathering techniques were employed: participant observation (40 hours at four conferences), 20 semi-structured interviews, and analysis of 8 sets of paper and electronic notes