fretboard knowledge

[octatonic]

Man I've gotta get it sorted. I can play most stuff as long as it's not too fast but I don't really know what I'm playing

It is relatively common.
Learning the fretboard is kinda boring but it is absolutely worth it.

[IanCorps]

It's worthwhile getting octave shapes under your fingers , then its easier to translate for example a note on the low E to a note on the D string . this also tends to open up the fretboard for you.

[Koss59]

The way I teach the notes on the fretboard is teaching the student the notes on the E string first on only the first 3 dots ( Fret 3 5 and 9, I then teach the same frets on the A string. This is very easy to do as they're all natural notes and easy to remember as they have fret board dots next to them. I then teach how to find octaves on the fret board, with this information they can find just about any note needed.
For more advanced students I teach how to find root notes within chords and therefore if you know your barre chords all over the neck you also know all the notes.

[uncle_psychosis]

I have been slowly learning them and this is what worked for me.

Pick a note. Any note (I started with C). Play all of the Cs on the fretboard in this kind of order:

e - - - - - 8 -
b - 1 - - - - -
G - - - 5 - - -
D - - - - - - 10
A - - 3 - - - -
E - - - - 8 - -

etc etc (I hope you see the pattern---you move up strings before you move up frets). Concentrate on getting the notes right, not speed. Repeat this for a few minutes, hopefully getting faster and cleaner as you get more confident. Repeat every day for a week. In week 2, pick a new note and repeat the exercise (but also do it for the previous notes a bit too).

In 12 weeks you'll have covered every single note on the fretboard and be much more confident.

[welly_59]

i can tell the notes using octaves i if i sit down and work out what im playing i can find the notes and move it around on the board but it doesnt come easy.

what id like to be able to do is think 'hey that riff is actually these notes and i could play it here instead if i wanted to', but i'd like to be able to do that pretty quickly not after half hour of working it out

[StuartBahn]

Pick a note. Any note (I started with C). Play all of the Cs on the fretboard in this kind of order:

e - - - - - 8 -
b - 1 - - - - -
G - - - 5 - - -
D - - - - - - 10
A - - 3 - - - -
E - - - - 8 - -

This is a very good approach.

[Mike.L]

I know mostly the note name/fret (If I think about it), but if I'm firing through a song/excercise not specifically needing the note names then I'm less certain
I did the old method of play the note/say the name at the same time.