How can I use AI to boost my note-taking for 3-hour Organic Chemistry lectures without missing key mechanisms?

Stop trying to draw every single arrow in real-time. Instead, take photos of the whiteboard or slides the moment the professor finishes a mechanism. Use a voice-to-text AI tool to record the lecture, but focus your handwritten notes only on the "why" and "how"—the logic behind the electron flow—rather than the drawing itself. After class, feed your rough notes and the transcribed audio into an AI. Ask it to create a structured outline that matches your photos. You can prompt the AI to identify specific keywords like "nucleophile" or "electrophile" to help you organize the steps of each reaction. This turns a chaotic transcript into a chronological map of the lecture. To make this a study guide, ask the AI to generate a list of "concept checks" or practice questions based on the lecture's logic. Since AI can't "see" the chemistry drawings perfectly yet, you'll need to manually insert your photos into these AI-generated outlines. This ensures you aren't relying on the AI for the actual chemical structures, which it might get wrong. This workflow shifts your effort from sketching during the lecture to synthesizing the material afterward. It lets you focus on the professor's explanation while the AI handles the heavy lifting of organization.