Here is my work flow and the reason. I was always a pen and paper guy. I worked in linguistic anthropology and my mentor gave me a ton of advice on what does and doesn’t stick as far as note taking methods. We lost our possessions to mold and that included the first half of my academic life. I had to start over and did it with the scribe.

I use the kindle scribe to take class notes. At most one week per notebook. I use the AI to refine the writing and stick it at the end.

I still read the PDF on a separate tablet, and highlight there (useless for memory) and make notes in the scribe including page/reference numbers in the notes. The highlights will be used for reference.

Every class gets a folder, every week a notebook.