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Hi BTC admin
There is real challenge we are facing, there is so much knowledge in videos and so much to process
So hand written notes become a necessity with appropriate chart
It is taking too much time to capture/ take screen shots of Video slides to make notes
This is an issue faced by many members here so it is a common problem. So I am raising this on behalf of those members
we would request you, if possible, to kindly make the slides of videos ( not download of video)/ screenshot of slides of videos available for easy note taking.
Many lines/ annotations need to be done in notes...which is not possible using take note button
You can charge a small fee for video screenshots or make them available for free as a gesture for students
we all shall be highly obliged for this
(we do understand the issue of piracy, you can have watermark on them. I don't think so anyone who is not a student will be able to understand those slides at all. We respect your hard work and committed to uphold the integrity of your work)
Member : Kindly support if you are also interested for video slide screenshots
I agree. It would be very helpful if we could download the slides. i have been typing notes and putting timestamp and slide numbers on my notes so that i can find it easier when trying to revisit the information presented in the videos. There is lots of information on the videos and if there could be a way to save chart presented in the videos for students to make notes that would be awesome.
Thank you for creating this thread. Felt like you just read my mind on this trying to learn..
I'd also like to add a few screenshots to my notes and have resorted to taking pictures with my phone and adding these to my notes which is NOT ideal. Why can't we take a few screenshots? Is there no way to the modify the anti piracy server to allow members to take screenshots? If you're not going to allow screenshots then a summary slide we could mark up ourselves for each video would be an alternative or perhaps provide a PDF of the 'manual' we can search quickly for reference.
To those looking for reference material using the site search function brings up a wealth of results and these can be screen shotted..........
I also request for the same for ease and convenience.
Kindly help us to solve this on priority without further delay.
Atleast, even the pdf form will help us a lot. Kindly try for this.
With kind regards.
I want to share my experience, maybe it might help:
I made copious notes with screenshots in Evernote, when I was doing the course for the first time, I was feeling exactly like people are talking about in this thread, that notes and screenshots are an absolute must and would help me.
By the time I finished the course, it was very clear to me that I would need to do the course again.
I did it the second time, didn't take much new notes this time. Again I felt that 2nd time isn't enough and I would need to do the course the 3rd time.
Rinse and Repeat..
I can't give you the exact number of times I completed the course, but easily it was 4 or 5 times.
(I have heard the same from people who were here much longer than me, that they did the whole course multiple times.)
By the 4th or 5th (maybe even 6th, because after the 2nd or 3rd try I stopped noting how many times I was doing the course) time, I realized that videos are not adding much more to my knowledge base and that I need to now start getting in the battlefield (or the market)
Once in the market, I sometimes referred back to particular modules like parabolic wedge, or trading the open, or MTRs etc. Since videos for particular aspect are short enough (I guess 15 - 20 minutes on an average) watching the whole module made much more sense instead of referring to my notes which were basically a summary.
(also once you have done the course at least twice, you can easily play the videos at 2x speed, thus consuming the videos in half the time)
So to cut long story short, I ended up never consulting my notes, not even once.
What also helps is that in videos Al repeats the fundamental information again and again and again (to the point that sometimes people have sort of complained that too much repetition is there in the course). I found that helpful because it cements the fundamentals into your brain.
If you are serious about the course, take my word for it, you would need to do the course multiple times to absorb all the information, irrespective of having made the notes or not.
Because this course you are not doing to pass an exam where one just regurgitates the information to score marks. You are doing this course to completely absorb the information, embody the information, so that when you are trading, the fundamentals have become as close to instinctual as you can get.
And if you are doing the course multiple times, then notes are not much of a factor because Al's repetition is enough.
I know as a newbie the whole course seems overwhelming and since most of us are coming from a background where we did courses to just regurgitate in an exam, our 1st reaction is that I need notes.
Of course, this is all my personal experience, so am aware that it is only applicable to my kind of personality, and as they say, your mileage may vary. I just shared this in the hopes that maybe for some of you it might lower down the anxiety of not being able to create screenshot notes.
my solution as i get into the course for this is to make notes with the tool provided for each section or topic i want to access quickly later (ioi,H1,PB etc.) then download a copy of this (easy to do) and paste it across to my own notes on my mac (this is awesome because it also provides a link to the video of that section).
For screenshots i suggest finding the pattern on your own charts, marking it up and adding that your notes. This will take a little time but will ensure the knowledge is internalised far better........and we can apply it instinctually, which will actually, i think, save us time in the long run.......
Good hunting