Comment by nooneelse

Your college notes sound similar to something I did with the mandatory "notes from assigned reading" I did in an Electronics class. Instead of outlining what the text was saying, like a nested bullet point list, with figures only rarely. I would draw out the graphs and figures in the assigned reading section, nice and big. Then around the figure/graph (like in a spray diagram) I would put notes from the text where they were relevant (usually in a uml, folded corner, box). Sometimes I would combine a couple of the figure/graphs or redraw a section of them more than once, or expand some part out larger, but largely (after I noticed what I was doing and made it intentional) each figure/graph in the reading was a page of "illuminated" picture notes, and that is all the notes were or needed.