Do you sometimes DON’T recognize the notes that you took, when you look at it after a long time?

Question

sometimes i write it so quickly and when refer back to them later, don't know what letters they are.
or if it's a secret note, i try to make it understandable only by me, but later end up not knowing what it means.

Answer 1

Yes, absolutely, and sometimes I can read notes I made about something but have no idea what they mean, like "rodents canning bell peppers" or "flax cigarettes". Why do I bother to write these things down? Why did I care at the time? What do they signify? I'm sure it was important to me. And no, I am not insane. Just widely read.

Answer 2

This had happened to me. I had recently come across notes that I had taken while I was in college and when I looked at them they seemed like they were written in some cryptic script?!
For the life of me I couldn't tell what the notes were referring to. After about fifteen minutes I finally deciphered the notes. They were referring to a form of cognitive-behavioural interpretation of geriatric aberrant-psychology. I was a psych major?!
It is a wonder that I didn't continue with the study of psychology and became a teacher instead. You need and interpreter just to communicate. Instead of "cognitive-behavioural geriatric aberrant-psychology" why not just say how old people think and behave when their brains go soft?!
LOL
Anyways that was my experience.

Answer 3

Yes, that has happened to me. It is worth it to slow down just a second or two to make your note understandable. As far as righting a note to yourself. If you right is so only you can understand it than you'll need to put some thought into what you write. Maybe your own pre-thought up code or just well thought out words.

Answer 4

I use to really get aggravated when I missed a test question and when I look back on my notes, I had the answer scribbled somewhere in a corner or something!

Answer 5

I wrote all my notes in script. It looked like the Richter scale during an earthquake.

Answer 6

That's why I have two notebooks. One to jog down during the lecture, another to summerize the chapter and make a comprehensive collection of all facts and formulas. (math)

Answer 7

Yes...and i thought i was the only one..But, i do write fast also...I have been told that......But if i read it at home THE SAME DAY...then i can figure it out...But, it must be the same day...I think that is the secret...

Answer 8

it happens to me when I write really really fast and then I have to decode it later like okay "is this a 6 or a G?" oh well, at least nobody else sees what I write

Answer 9

yes it happens allot with me , my hand writing sucks and the letters may look like each others , and sometimes i forget the code of what i had written while ago.

Answer 10

All the time. I do it with numbers to. I think it's because I've read to many of the prescriptions my doctor gives me to get filled.