I could recreate any drawings my professors made on the board by using the pen feature. Or I could make my cursor a pen to circle things, draw lines to similar concepts, etc. I could then use the highlighter feature to make my cursor into a highlighter and highlight any important features. I loved how I could download handouts and “print” them to my notebooks.
Come term paper time, it was super easy to put all of my notes on a certain topic together by just searching all of my notes for a particular key word or phrase. Depending on the class, I created a new note for each class meeting or for each major topic. I created one notebook for the semester and sections for each of my classes. You can easily create different notebooks with sections (just like a binder with tabbed dividers) and then put notes into sections. Since I had just installed Microsoft Office 2007, I decided to check out Microsoft OneNote. So I started looking at different note-taking programs for the semester. Half way through the lecture, my hand was tired and my handwriting was nearly impossible to read. The majority of my professors wanted to fit a bazillion concepts into one lecture and did so by speaking a thousand miles a second. When school started last semester, I realized I had to find a better way to keep my notes organized. But the mobile access thing just isn’t as important to a non-smart-phone-carrying person like me. If I had had a smart phone like a Blackberry or iPhone, I probably wouldn’t have given up so quickly because the fact that you can edit and view your files from your mobile devices is pretty amazing and crucial if you are a constantly-on-the-go sort of a person. After a few weeks, I gave up and moved on. I felt that the interface wasn’t as intuitive as I would have liked and I got confused a few times. I was attracted to Evernote because I’ve seen so many blog posts written about it how easy it is to use, very mobile, syncs with the web – the list of cool features was pretty long. I am a note-taking fanatic – between school, genealogy, church, and all of the other gazillion things I am involved in, I need to be able to take detailed notes quickly and easily.Ī year or two ago, I played around with Evernote but just didn’t fall in love with it. In the last month I’ve been playing around with Evernote and OneNote, two different note-taking programs.
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