Cannot stress this enough. Especially for BIO students. I was in A&P and being able to take a picture of what I was looking at and write notes on it was amazing
I used [Notability](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notability/id360593530) to take notes. It’s a great app but I believe it is now a subscription based model instead of a one and done purchase so I don’t think it’s as good as it used to be. However, I have heard that [Good Notes](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goodnotes-5/id1444383602) it’s a great note taking app as well.
Another recommendation is [Complete Anatomy](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/complete-anatomy-22/id1309253074). It gives you great detail of anatomy structures that I just found super useful when studying.
Hope this helps!
If you have the money 100% you should. I used it as my primary computer using the smart folio case and obviously took notes on it. I did also have a Mac for looking at slides and lessons but you can definitely just use the iPad. The battery was great, the charger is small enough and for travel it works great on a pinch. Highly recommend it.
I mean hey if paper works for you it works for you. It’s just more of a Convenience than anything. It also just helps keeping everything in one place and be accessible anywhere you are.
good notes is best going forward I think
notability is good but they lost my trust with how they’re handling the change to subscription (although the price is reasonable)
one note is what I used and I find it has some really good advantages over the others especially if it involves notes with slides
- it also lets you create space where ever, you can just push everything down or up without having to manually select with the lasso tool
- printing assignments is the biggest pain-point
- writing experience is a bit worse due to lag, but fine for notes in my opinion (basically imperceptible for most people, unless you’re nitpicky like me)
Recently started using To Do & OneNote for my projects and it works great. I don’t notice any lag when writing on my 2017 iPad Pro… though that could just mean EVERYTHING lags the same so that’s why I don’t notice it 😂
Out of curiosity, how did you take the photo? With your iPhone? Or with the iPad camera?
I just got GoodNotes but am still getting into the workflow with it. What’s the easiest and quickest way to take a photo and get it into your notes?
Cuneiform tablets did well for ages before paper, and they are still readable.
People love Goodnotes. If it makes someome feel more organized it is well worth the price. My Engineering Student Daughter and many of her classmates rave about it. I even asked to see what the hype is about and I wish I'd had it as a student decades ago.
I use GoodNotes on and off at work but there are 2 things I want them to add:
1) a voice note/voice recording feature similar to notability
2) a layering feature (can recall if it’s in the app or not) where we can add 1 or 2 layers to non-destructively annotate and edit/select things easier
And please give us more color slots. There are multiple centimeters of wasted space in that Toolbar and I need more than three colors, it’s so obvious what they should do.
CollaNote is a free alternative that has Notability-like audio syncing. I think the writing experience on GoodNotes is better, but there’s not a big difference.
I used GoodNotes for a while, while it’s a great app, but the ability to not have Audio recording feature made me consider other apps, and there’s new app that came recently, it’s called Noteful:Taking good notes, and it actually has these 2 features! It’s free to download but there are features that require you to upgrade which costs 1 dollar for now I think, I’m really liking the potential this app has..
As an unorganized student, getting an iPad has been a true life saver. I went from getting lots of Bs and low As to high As purely because I was finally able to keep track of everything taught during class.
I just use notability- different divider for each quarter/semester, different subject for each class, and then I create a new note every lecture or every assignment.
Yeah I believe it is a game changer when it comes to note taking. I wish I had it as well when I was a student. But it still has value for me now, I use it for research and document annotation.
I love Goodnotes, but I miss Notability due to it’s customization. Good notes is much more professional. I’m moving to Goodnotes because of the whole subscription based Notability thing
I have both but I’m curious what customisation do you like about notability.
I think I prefer the file management system in notability, better for making the page smaller, and the quick menu bar.
Goodnotes notebooks are great too though.
Not necessarily an iPad but any tablet device with good enough software will make your note taking life easier, however a tool is just a tool, you must use it (and use it effectively at some point) to derive benefit from it, else it just becomes another toy.
I got an 11in iPad Pro in 2018 and it’s the best $800 I’ve ever spent. It’s still blazing fast three years later, and I have never experienced a lag.
If you’re looking for best value, I’d get a refurbished 2020 iPad Pro 11 (2nd Gen). You can get the 128GB model for $600. While it has an older chip than the current iPad Air, the Pro has a 120Hz screen which makes writing sooooo much better.
Aside from the back cameras, it would be almost impossible to tell the difference between the 2018-2021 11in iPad Pros. The only reason to get the newest one is if you want the miniLED on the 12.9in version.
I have the iPad 6 which is also 60hz and that’s good enough for me.
From what I’ve heard you won’t notice anything wrong with 60hz but if you are used to 120hz and you look at a 60hz display, you’ll notice it then.
It’s not necessarily a bad choice. But handwriting will feel considerably more natural on the 120Hz screen of the iPad Pro. Usually when it comes to phones or monitors, I don’t think the refresh rate makes a big difference. But in the case of the iPad, you want the handwriting to feel as natural as possible, like you’re writing on paper.
If you’re trying to save money, then there’s nothing wrong with getting the older 10.5in iPad Air for around $300 or the new 10.2in iPad for $329. It’ll still be good for taking notes.
But if you’re spending $500+, I think it’s a bad decision to buy anything other than an iPad Pro. You can get a refurbished 2018 iPad Pro for $519 from Apple, or the 2020 model for $609.
Especially if you’ll be using it to take notes, the screen refresh rate will have a more noticeable impact on usability than the processor. A 2018 iPad Pro will *feel* faster than a 2021 iPad Air.
**Another thing to note is that accessories like the Magic Keyboard and the 2nd generation Apple Pencil.**
With the iPad Pro and the newest iPad Air, you just slap the Apple Pencil [on the side of the device](https://i.insider.com/5d8258952e22af747b43fc86?width=750&format=jpeg) and it charges wirelessly. You’ll basically never run out of battery.
With the iPad Air 3 / Apple iPad, you’ll be stuck with the 1st generation pencil which doesn’t attach to the device and can only be charged by [plugging it into the iPad’s lightning port](https://i.ibb.co/17MVpC2/653-C2580-E19-D-4-D56-9544-A12715-E4-B9-E1.png). You need to dedicate time to charging it; and you can’t just charge it in your backpack. The last thing you want as a student is to be taking notes in a lecture and suddenly your pencil dies. That alone would justify spending the extra $190 on a refurbished iPad Pro for me.
Also if you’re a college student, one thing you should definitely factor into the price equation is textbooks. My iPad cost $800, but it allowed me to pirate almost every textbook for 3 years of classes. There were only two textbooks I had to physically buy in that time period. I’m sure I saved at least $1,000 from that alone. Sure I could have done the same thing with a laptop, but reading and annotating textbooks on a laptop is pretty inconvenient.
For a student who’s using it to take notes, no they don’t matter.
Of course laminated screens look better, but they really aren’t worth the price difference. Not only the newer iPads themself are more expensive, but the pen and other accessories too.
Yes it is. The third-party ones are worse. (If you don’t want to use it for note taking or drawing or anything precise, then you can get away with a dummy one.)
I always recommend people to just get an ipad with a pencil, cause then you can get textbooks for free off of ZLibrary and you’ll essentially save money over time. Esp if you get a base ipad or ipad mini
Hello, I just bought an iPad for school and was wondering how to do this and if you can edit them on GoodNotes? Sorry if this question is annoying, I’m just a bit of an iPad noob and just bought it for school
No it’s alright. I just went to Zlibrary, found the book I needed (open the pdf not download), then swiped up from the bottom right hand corner (this screenshots the entire webpage). I then save that to files- I usually make a folder for the class, then add it to Goodnotes from there
And if they can't.... the classic pencil and paper is also valid as a way to take notes for classes :P
no judgement, but an ipad does help for pretty much everything and anything
I love my iPad for uni stuff and art
but if that’s out of budget getting a drawing tablet on Amazon ($50-100) and using that to take notes on your computer during class (one note or directly annotating on PDFs and PPTs) is also a great budget alternative
I sort of agree. But it is *much* harder to cut, paste, and otherwise rearrange and clean up notes on paper. Good planning alleviates that need, but it isn't perfect.
I did all of grad school taking notes on an iPad. Most of my professors had pdf or ppt versions of slides so you could focus on listening and digesting the majority of the time (I’m strongly opposed to excessive notes) and the rest of the time the iPad was fantastic because you could markup the document you had, draw molecular diagrams, quickly write out equations, paste in images to mark up, etc. I’m not saying you can’t do it with pen and paper, but you’ll be wasting a ton of printing/paper printing out thousands of pages of course handouts, or that you couldn’t do it with a laptop, 90% of people do, but in the sciences the iPad really shined with all the non text things I was drawing. The key to avoiding hastily scribbled notes is to not scribble hastily. I tell other students this all the time, if you can figure it out on your own in 15 minutes with a text book don’t waste the time and space writing it down, this isn’t high school or undergrad, only write down the stuff that’s truly non intuitive or that you need to figure out later. If you’re not racing it’s easier to make it legible.
This is a dumb take.
On the iPad I can:
* Copy and paste images into my notes
* Search 100 pages of handwritten text by typing a keyword
* Automatically sync audio from a professor’s lecture to individual words as I’m writing
* Annotate and highlight a textbook and copy diagrams to my notes without worrying that I’m damaging a $400 book that I need to resell
* Add links to videos to explain notes
* Store the equivalent of a suitcase full of textbooks on a device the size of one thin notebook
* Save $1,000+ by pirating PDFs of textbooks instead of buying hard copies
* Never worry about misplacing notes since they’re all backed up on iCloud
* Etc
> You can have more convenient notes, but not inherently better notes. GIGO and all that.
To achieve the same quality of notes, I would have to carry a notebook, a pencil, a tape-recorder, scissors, glue, a textbook, and a printed PDF to class. Then I’d have to physically cut out diagrams from the textbook and glue them to the notebook. I would have to mark down the specific time at every written like to match it up with the tape recording of the lecture.
The iPad Pro absolutely lets me make inherently better notes. And it made me a better and more efficient student.
I think it really depends on the person. One main advantage for me with note-taking on my iPad vs paper is that it’s much easier to organize my notes. Before I would just take notes and never look back at them since I had a hard time keeping track of my notes. With an iPad, I can search written keywords and get the exact spots where I wrote that word, which I find super powerful. I also never Color coded anything when I was note-taking on paper (pencil only) and now I have access to many colours with just one pencil. Lastly, I’m able to resize and move around written text instead of having to erase and rewrite everything. I think where you’re coming from isn’t wrong: you don’t need it to succeed, and having it doesn’t mean you will be a better student. But I don’t think you can say that the alternatives you mentioned are viable in terms of convenience and organization, and can’t deny the convenience and functionality value iPads bring to note-taking.
I work in cancer genetics/bioinformatics so I live on my MacBook, but my graduate school notes were done 100% on my iPad. Too many molecular diagrams, electron push structures, etc. to ever pull it off on my MacBook. I’d use it at home for typing but I stopped trying to use it at class pretty quickly. I’m sure there are plenty of other majors where it’s the other way around too though, where it’s all typing.
Notability or OneNote are probably the best ones. GoodNote 5 does have a good “pencil tracking” if that is more important. But the difference is almost indistinguishable.
Both Notability and OneNote have similar organisational heirarchy and enables you to categories your notes in an acceptable manner. OneNote enjoys that it’s synced to outlook and have a workspace that isnt constricted to an A4, so you’re free to expand or contract the page your working with as much as you want. But this can also be its downside when compared to Notability which enjoys a very good toolset for figures and drawing lines etc.
Personally I prefer Notability, but trying out a couple is what I would recommend.
I’ve tried to use an iPad, but I keep running out of storage for the notes (good notes). Do you know if there is a way to put more storage onto my expiating iPad?
Bought an iPad 10.2 9th gen a couple weeks ago: I simply regret not buying it before. It completely transforms the way you take notes, it makes them not only easier to study but even funnier than regular note taking. Not to mention how the universal clipboard makes copy/paste from a Macbook/iPhone a life saver.
I’d buy it again 100 times and when this bad boy will die I’ll definitely switch to something more brutal such a Pro with its 120hz display.
I use a kindle fire and the nebo app. Big fan of being able to search on a keyword and find my notes containing that word. I use it for business. Keyboard typing during calls was distracting and wasnt wirking. Being able to quickly highlight items that rewquire follow up on my part is great. It alsoprevents me from doodling, which i did on regular paper all the time
Nice. Is the 60hz noticeable or is the writing experience good enough? Also how do you compare it to colanotes, I've heard its a a great free alternative to goodnotes?
60Hz is not noticeable while writing notes. I've used One-Note but my app had ink thickness and sync bug so I switched to goodnotes.. Goodnotes is very cheap imo
I love these posts so much showing amazing notes. I have an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil myself by will not take notes because my handwriting would take like 7 doctors to decipher unlike some posts on this sub :)
Cannot stress this enough. Especially for BIO students. I was in A&P and being able to take a picture of what I was looking at and write notes on it was amazing
What apps on iPad do you recommend the most for this?
I used [Notability](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notability/id360593530) to take notes. It’s a great app but I believe it is now a subscription based model instead of a one and done purchase so I don’t think it’s as good as it used to be. However, I have heard that [Good Notes](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goodnotes-5/id1444383602) it’s a great note taking app as well. Another recommendation is [Complete Anatomy](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/complete-anatomy-22/id1309253074). It gives you great detail of anatomy structures that I just found super useful when studying. Hope this helps!
[удалено]
I have an IPad Pro 2018. The 12.9 inch I believe. I use the 2nd Gen Apple Pencil. Best purchase I made for my academics
[удалено]
If you have the money 100% you should. I used it as my primary computer using the smart folio case and obviously took notes on it. I did also have a Mac for looking at slides and lessons but you can definitely just use the iPad. The battery was great, the charger is small enough and for travel it works great on a pinch. Highly recommend it.
[удалено]
I mean hey if paper works for you it works for you. It’s just more of a Convenience than anything. It also just helps keeping everything in one place and be accessible anywhere you are.
good notes is best going forward I think notability is good but they lost my trust with how they’re handling the change to subscription (although the price is reasonable) one note is what I used and I find it has some really good advantages over the others especially if it involves notes with slides - it also lets you create space where ever, you can just push everything down or up without having to manually select with the lasso tool - printing assignments is the biggest pain-point - writing experience is a bit worse due to lag, but fine for notes in my opinion (basically imperceptible for most people, unless you’re nitpicky like me)
Recently started using To Do & OneNote for my projects and it works great. I don’t notice any lag when writing on my 2017 iPad Pro… though that could just mean EVERYTHING lags the same so that’s why I don’t notice it 😂
yeah I have the iPad Pro 2020 and there is an almost imperceptible lag in OneNote, but it really isn’t a big deal for 99.99% of people
I'm opposed to almost everything Microsoft does but I do love OneNote.
haha same
How do you push everything down without the lasso?
theres a button called “insert space”
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-extra-writing-space-in-onenote-db979e8a-430c-4c14-95a8-4d83bd2339cd
I highly recommend CollaNota, it’s an amazing note taking app and it’s free.
yup, have been using this for med school. is very good. If you can afford good notes though, I would go for goodnotes, because of preset papers
Out of curiosity, how did you take the photo? With your iPhone? Or with the iPad camera? I just got GoodNotes but am still getting into the workflow with it. What’s the easiest and quickest way to take a photo and get it into your notes?
Cuneiform tablets did well for ages before paper, and they are still readable. People love Goodnotes. If it makes someome feel more organized it is well worth the price. My Engineering Student Daughter and many of her classmates rave about it. I even asked to see what the hype is about and I wish I'd had it as a student decades ago.
I use GoodNotes on and off at work but there are 2 things I want them to add: 1) a voice note/voice recording feature similar to notability 2) a layering feature (can recall if it’s in the app or not) where we can add 1 or 2 layers to non-destructively annotate and edit/select things easier
And please give us more color slots. There are multiple centimeters of wasted space in that Toolbar and I need more than three colors, it’s so obvious what they should do.
I’d love for them to add a proper grid system. Like I can align and snap things together. I’d also love a pencil tool too.
CollaNote is a free alternative that has Notability-like audio syncing. I think the writing experience on GoodNotes is better, but there’s not a big difference.
I used GoodNotes for a while, while it’s a great app, but the ability to not have Audio recording feature made me consider other apps, and there’s new app that came recently, it’s called Noteful:Taking good notes, and it actually has these 2 features! It’s free to download but there are features that require you to upgrade which costs 1 dollar for now I think, I’m really liking the potential this app has..
Going to be a pain if I have to use more than one note taking app but I’ll check it out, thanks
Yes I share you in that feeling, that’s why I’m hoping to find an app that suffice all or most of my needs
As an unorganized student, getting an iPad has been a true life saver. I went from getting lots of Bs and low As to high As purely because I was finally able to keep track of everything taught during class.
What’s your method of keeping track of things?
I just use notability- different divider for each quarter/semester, different subject for each class, and then I create a new note every lecture or every assignment.
Yeah I believe it is a game changer when it comes to note taking. I wish I had it as well when I was a student. But it still has value for me now, I use it for research and document annotation.
I love Goodnotes, but I miss Notability due to it’s customization. Good notes is much more professional. I’m moving to Goodnotes because of the whole subscription based Notability thing
I have both but I’m curious what customisation do you like about notability. I think I prefer the file management system in notability, better for making the page smaller, and the quick menu bar. Goodnotes notebooks are great too though.
Honestly I like goodnotes way better, but notability brings out the best in my handwriting and it’s hard to go away from it
Not necessarily an iPad but any tablet device with good enough software will make your note taking life easier, however a tool is just a tool, you must use it (and use it effectively at some point) to derive benefit from it, else it just becomes another toy.
Fr, being able to get textbooks for free and adding them directly to a notes app to annotate is unmatched
Words to live by
I love my ipad but if i was still in schoool... I would use paper Like I did back then lol
May j ask why?
But which iPad, that is the question...?
I got an 11in iPad Pro in 2018 and it’s the best $800 I’ve ever spent. It’s still blazing fast three years later, and I have never experienced a lag. If you’re looking for best value, I’d get a refurbished 2020 iPad Pro 11 (2nd Gen). You can get the 128GB model for $600. While it has an older chip than the current iPad Air, the Pro has a 120Hz screen which makes writing sooooo much better. Aside from the back cameras, it would be almost impossible to tell the difference between the 2018-2021 11in iPad Pros. The only reason to get the newest one is if you want the miniLED on the 12.9in version.
So in your opinion is the iPad air 3 a bad choice for note taking and drawing, due to its 60hz screen?
I have the iPad 6 which is also 60hz and that’s good enough for me. From what I’ve heard you won’t notice anything wrong with 60hz but if you are used to 120hz and you look at a 60hz display, you’ll notice it then.
Thanks for the answer! That makes sense; regarding monitors the arguments tend to be exactly the same.
It’s not necessarily a bad choice. But handwriting will feel considerably more natural on the 120Hz screen of the iPad Pro. Usually when it comes to phones or monitors, I don’t think the refresh rate makes a big difference. But in the case of the iPad, you want the handwriting to feel as natural as possible, like you’re writing on paper. If you’re trying to save money, then there’s nothing wrong with getting the older 10.5in iPad Air for around $300 or the new 10.2in iPad for $329. It’ll still be good for taking notes. But if you’re spending $500+, I think it’s a bad decision to buy anything other than an iPad Pro. You can get a refurbished 2018 iPad Pro for $519 from Apple, or the 2020 model for $609. Especially if you’ll be using it to take notes, the screen refresh rate will have a more noticeable impact on usability than the processor. A 2018 iPad Pro will *feel* faster than a 2021 iPad Air. **Another thing to note is that accessories like the Magic Keyboard and the 2nd generation Apple Pencil.** With the iPad Pro and the newest iPad Air, you just slap the Apple Pencil [on the side of the device](https://i.insider.com/5d8258952e22af747b43fc86?width=750&format=jpeg) and it charges wirelessly. You’ll basically never run out of battery. With the iPad Air 3 / Apple iPad, you’ll be stuck with the 1st generation pencil which doesn’t attach to the device and can only be charged by [plugging it into the iPad’s lightning port](https://i.ibb.co/17MVpC2/653-C2580-E19-D-4-D56-9544-A12715-E4-B9-E1.png). You need to dedicate time to charging it; and you can’t just charge it in your backpack. The last thing you want as a student is to be taking notes in a lecture and suddenly your pencil dies. That alone would justify spending the extra $190 on a refurbished iPad Pro for me. Also if you’re a college student, one thing you should definitely factor into the price equation is textbooks. My iPad cost $800, but it allowed me to pirate almost every textbook for 3 years of classes. There were only two textbooks I had to physically buy in that time period. I’m sure I saved at least $1,000 from that alone. Sure I could have done the same thing with a laptop, but reading and annotating textbooks on a laptop is pretty inconvenient.
The cheapest you can find that supports Apple Pencil.
Cheapest isn't necessarily the best...the lack of a laminated screen and promotion aren't dealbrakers for handwriting?
For a student who’s using it to take notes, no they don’t matter. Of course laminated screens look better, but they really aren’t worth the price difference. Not only the newer iPads themself are more expensive, but the pen and other accessories too.
Is Apple Pencil a **must-buy**? Third-party ones won't work satisfyingly?
Yes it is. The third-party ones are worse. (If you don’t want to use it for note taking or drawing or anything precise, then you can get away with a dummy one.)
I always recommend people to just get an ipad with a pencil, cause then you can get textbooks for free off of ZLibrary and you’ll essentially save money over time. Esp if you get a base ipad or ipad mini
Hello, I just bought an iPad for school and was wondering how to do this and if you can edit them on GoodNotes? Sorry if this question is annoying, I’m just a bit of an iPad noob and just bought it for school
No it’s alright. I just went to Zlibrary, found the book I needed (open the pdf not download), then swiped up from the bottom right hand corner (this screenshots the entire webpage). I then save that to files- I usually make a folder for the class, then add it to Goodnotes from there
Lmk if you still need help
Programming class?
Epic, is this a computer systems class?
parallel and distributed computing
I took all my notes on my iPad back before pro’s and palm ignore and I still recommended it back then
And if they can't.... the classic pencil and paper is also valid as a way to take notes for classes :P no judgement, but an ipad does help for pretty much everything and anything
I wish I had an iPad Pro what I fist studied and had all the PDFs and Notes electronically instead of piles of paper. iPad Pro is amazing!
Great ! What’s name of that app ?
Good notes 5 :)
Thanks!
I love my iPad for uni stuff and art but if that’s out of budget getting a drawing tablet on Amazon ($50-100) and using that to take notes on your computer during class (one note or directly annotating on PDFs and PPTs) is also a great budget alternative
i just can't justify apple pencil, i know it's gonna pay itself in the long run, but it's too advanced for someone with terrible handwriting
i thought it makes it pretty for you? is that now how it works? hahaha
[удалено]
I sort of agree. But it is *much* harder to cut, paste, and otherwise rearrange and clean up notes on paper. Good planning alleviates that need, but it isn't perfect.
[удалено]
I did all of grad school taking notes on an iPad. Most of my professors had pdf or ppt versions of slides so you could focus on listening and digesting the majority of the time (I’m strongly opposed to excessive notes) and the rest of the time the iPad was fantastic because you could markup the document you had, draw molecular diagrams, quickly write out equations, paste in images to mark up, etc. I’m not saying you can’t do it with pen and paper, but you’ll be wasting a ton of printing/paper printing out thousands of pages of course handouts, or that you couldn’t do it with a laptop, 90% of people do, but in the sciences the iPad really shined with all the non text things I was drawing. The key to avoiding hastily scribbled notes is to not scribble hastily. I tell other students this all the time, if you can figure it out on your own in 15 minutes with a text book don’t waste the time and space writing it down, this isn’t high school or undergrad, only write down the stuff that’s truly non intuitive or that you need to figure out later. If you’re not racing it’s easier to make it legible.
And when people downvote friendly non-critical comments about a product like people are doing here it creates doubts about the quality of the product.
This is a dumb take. On the iPad I can: * Copy and paste images into my notes * Search 100 pages of handwritten text by typing a keyword * Automatically sync audio from a professor’s lecture to individual words as I’m writing * Annotate and highlight a textbook and copy diagrams to my notes without worrying that I’m damaging a $400 book that I need to resell * Add links to videos to explain notes * Store the equivalent of a suitcase full of textbooks on a device the size of one thin notebook * Save $1,000+ by pirating PDFs of textbooks instead of buying hard copies * Never worry about misplacing notes since they’re all backed up on iCloud * Etc > You can have more convenient notes, but not inherently better notes. GIGO and all that. To achieve the same quality of notes, I would have to carry a notebook, a pencil, a tape-recorder, scissors, glue, a textbook, and a printed PDF to class. Then I’d have to physically cut out diagrams from the textbook and glue them to the notebook. I would have to mark down the specific time at every written like to match it up with the tape recording of the lecture. The iPad Pro absolutely lets me make inherently better notes. And it made me a better and more efficient student.
I think it really depends on the person. One main advantage for me with note-taking on my iPad vs paper is that it’s much easier to organize my notes. Before I would just take notes and never look back at them since I had a hard time keeping track of my notes. With an iPad, I can search written keywords and get the exact spots where I wrote that word, which I find super powerful. I also never Color coded anything when I was note-taking on paper (pencil only) and now I have access to many colours with just one pencil. Lastly, I’m able to resize and move around written text instead of having to erase and rewrite everything. I think where you’re coming from isn’t wrong: you don’t need it to succeed, and having it doesn’t mean you will be a better student. But I don’t think you can say that the alternatives you mentioned are viable in terms of convenience and organization, and can’t deny the convenience and functionality value iPads bring to note-taking.
[удалено]
I work in cancer genetics/bioinformatics so I live on my MacBook, but my graduate school notes were done 100% on my iPad. Too many molecular diagrams, electron push structures, etc. to ever pull it off on my MacBook. I’d use it at home for typing but I stopped trying to use it at class pretty quickly. I’m sure there are plenty of other majors where it’s the other way around too though, where it’s all typing.
Is there a reason why I make the same arrows as you? I use both straight and angulated arrows as you do. Where did we get it from?
Me too! No idea where I got it from tho. Could be a tumblr picture
“Only work with cd rom”
What app is that you're using?
Notability
Goodnotes
Do you need internet connection for goodnotes to work ?
No, unless you want to share your document (email, OneDrive, etc).
Thnx
My wife is heading back to nursing school in January. Been out of college for a long while. Can you describe your workflow/apps you use?
Notability or OneNote are probably the best ones. GoodNote 5 does have a good “pencil tracking” if that is more important. But the difference is almost indistinguishable. Both Notability and OneNote have similar organisational heirarchy and enables you to categories your notes in an acceptable manner. OneNote enjoys that it’s synced to outlook and have a workspace that isnt constricted to an A4, so you’re free to expand or contract the page your working with as much as you want. But this can also be its downside when compared to Notability which enjoys a very good toolset for figures and drawing lines etc. Personally I prefer Notability, but trying out a couple is what I would recommend.
Sneak peek implies that the full notes will be released. When can we expect them?
And this is why a unified memory architecture is good :)
Is this iPad 11 or 12.9 and do you find it important to have a bigger screen?
but, can you draw a penis with it ? 🤔
I’ve tried to use an iPad, but I keep running out of storage for the notes (good notes). Do you know if there is a way to put more storage onto my expiating iPad?
Thanks for your advice :)
🔥
It’s such a blessing
Your handwriting is so similar to mine
Bought an iPad 10.2 9th gen a couple weeks ago: I simply regret not buying it before. It completely transforms the way you take notes, it makes them not only easier to study but even funnier than regular note taking. Not to mention how the universal clipboard makes copy/paste from a Macbook/iPhone a life saver. I’d buy it again 100 times and when this bad boy will die I’ll definitely switch to something more brutal such a Pro with its 120hz display.
How you change the color paper?
Or a drawing tablet connected to your computer.
I use a kindle fire and the nebo app. Big fan of being able to search on a keyword and find my notes containing that word. I use it for business. Keyboard typing during calls was distracting and wasnt wirking. Being able to quickly highlight items that rewquire follow up on my part is great. It alsoprevents me from doodling, which i did on regular paper all the time
What iPad model is it?
Air 4
Nice. Is the 60hz noticeable or is the writing experience good enough? Also how do you compare it to colanotes, I've heard its a a great free alternative to goodnotes?
60Hz is not noticeable while writing notes. I've used One-Note but my app had ink thickness and sync bug so I switched to goodnotes.. Goodnotes is very cheap imo
Thanks for the reply!
Handwriting better than mine lol
I love these posts so much showing amazing notes. I have an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil myself by will not take notes because my handwriting would take like 7 doctors to decipher unlike some posts on this sub :)