take notes

take notes (third-person singular simple present takes notes, present participle taking notes, simple past took notes, past participle taken notes)

1. To make a record of what one hears or observes for future reference.
   • 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:

     Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.

• notebook
• notetaking