How do you note on a jam?

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How do you note things on a jam or during practice?

I’m mainly interested into two things:

  1. What do you note?
    Do you write Chords, shapes, lines, special fills or notes?
  2. How do you do it?
    Are there apps that are handy enough to keep track of stuff, or do you just use plain old clipboard and paper?
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One solution to consider is a “lead sheets” approach. Here are a couple of articles on them to get you started.

Why lead sheets?

Learn how to read lead sheets

These examples use specific chord names. I suggest that you also read up on the Nashville Number System. Using it makes transpositions easier.

Finally, paper or app? Paper. Much faster in the moment. If you wind up with something you want to keep and share, then you can digitize it.

My $0.02.

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I’m not sure what you’d be notating.
For quick turnaround rehearsals, I usually have a sheet (chords for the song / arrangement / whatever I used to learn the song) up.
I make notes on that.

If you’re talking about noting things that you like that happen more spontaneously, I don’t know how I’d note that.

What I’d recommend is just recording it on your phone.
If something cool happens, maybe make a note of the time stamp, then go back and check it out?

If you have a more specific for-instance I might be able to help more.

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