Any tips for preventing perfectionism when it comes to notetaking? This is a slightly seperate question from before.
I was curious on hearing any tips from the community regarding: Preventing perfectionism when it comes to notetaking?
It can be trying to make the notes look perfect (aesthetically + information-wise it troubles me not understanding a couple of key points after having written a bunch of notes down and I'm reviewing them).
I don't do color-coding and doodles, but I like underlining key parts of my notes a bit too much.
I feel like it's all about having this nice condensed packet of beautifully written notes for future review, which is wrong. I know some people will address how this is not a good way to get information in my brain and I agree you should address that, but also please address the perfectionism aspect of my notes because I will still have to take notes in life anyways and that is why I'm asking this question
This is tied to preventing perfectionism in general I guess too.
Note: I wouldn't say I have OCD as I'm not at that level in other aspects of life or to an extent in academics, but still it is a 'perfectionist attitude' or 'minimalistic, beautiful notes', etc
This question, combined with your previous one, makes me think that you are confusing two issues: transcribing information and understanding information. These are not the same thing.  In fact, if you focus more on transcribing information in detail, but you might actually learn less than if you had taken no notes at all.  See for example this article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/
I think you need to break yourself of the habit of taking too many notes.  Here's what I suggest: read an entire chapter or lesson without taking a single note.  Don't write anything down at all, just focus on understanding the material.  Sit on your hands if you have to to prevent yourself from writing.  If you don't understand the material, read it again (or maybe look in a different book, find a relevant website etc,).  Once you think you have an understanding, try to summarize the entire chapter very concisely, for example just 10 bullet points.  if you can't do it that concisely, you probably didn't understand it.  Go back and read again.
After while, once you've broken yourself of the habit of taking too many notes, you can go back to taking a few short notes as you read.
Edit: To clarify based on Buffy's comment: I'm not suggesting this as a long term strategy.  Long term you need to find a balance with the right level of note taking.  I'm suggesting this as a short term (say a week or two) approach to get you out of the habit of excess note taking.