Choosing kanji or kana for quick notes

I notice when I’m scribbling notes quickly that I instinctively reach for kanji because it prevents that messy string of phonetics. Even if the strokes take longer to write, the visual anchors make the page much easier to scan later on. I usually stick to the conventional forms even for complex characters. If you start swapping technical terms for kana just to save time, you lose the precision that makes the language