The phrase "diligent notes" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means taking thorough and careful notes. Example: The student quickly scribbled down every word the professor said, taking diligent notes in order to pass the exam with flying colors.
I still have the diligent notes I made on that first reading - they run to three and a half closely written pages.
He keeps diligent notes in a small, spiral-bound notebook while out on the street, and later enters them into a comprehensive database the program keeps on every homeless person it encounters.
Typically, Putin shows up with a lap top on which he takes diligent notes.
In 2007, he tracked all the New York City streets he walked along, keeping diligent notes on his phone and later digitising the routes.
In 2007, he tracked all the New York City streets he walked along, keeping diligent notes on his phone and later digitizing the routes.
These tasks steal valuable time away from core responsibilities that get employees noticed--the person taking diligent notes almost never makes the killer point in a meeting.
General Mladic, for all his diligent note-taking, appears to have proceeded with caution, at least in the diaries given to the tribunal, which date from June 1991 to November 1996.
The diligent taking of notes helped make Hugo the formidable commentator he was.
She had studied and read books on the Balkans like a diligent schoolgirl, taken notes, enrolled in a course in humanitarian law.
But, as with Bob Woodward's parallel chronicles of the Bush presidency, the real test – apart from diligent pages of notes at the back of the book – is whether the writer has a reputation well earned to protect.
His introduction and copious notes are diligent - sometimes to a fault: the presence of footnotes and endnotes for each story gives them a cluttered feeling that isn't exactly conducive to the casting of a spell.
