I have previous posts about the amazing benefits of these three techniques here and here. Active Recall, spaced repetition, and practice testing are evidence-based, and effective, studying strategies. Summarizing, highlighting, and rereading are poor studying strategies. The basis of my notability strategy is this, Let’s break my note taking down into 4 parts: How I use Notabilityĭisclaimer: I am no artist, my notes are not pretty, I am never asked to lend my notes, to anyone… I was looking for the most effective learning tool, and (for now) I think I found it. The organization was there, PowerPoint integration was there, but I didn’t like how you could extend a page forever. Onenote: Very close to being good enough for me.GoodNotes: Limited organization and bad appearance.Evernote: Disliked due to lack of organization and difficulty drawing.In my first few months of medical school, I tried 4 apps until I decided on notability.
I watched a couple of videos and began trying out all the “notes” apps: good notes, OneNote, Evernote, all of them.
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I wanted the top of line appearance for the editing above, but also for watching movies and TV when I travel.Īfter I bought the combo I immediately went to YouTube to learn how to use it.I pictured myself doing more advanced things on it, like editing photos and videos.Things I also liked about the apple pencil 2nd gen was the double-tap feature for erasing and the magnetic snap to the IPad Pro. That was enough for me as I knew I was going to be taking a ton of notes. It was smoother and more fun to write with. The main reason was the Apple Pencil 2nd Gen (It doesn’t work on the regular IPad) – I tried out both and the newer pencil just felt better.
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I picked the IPad Pro over the regular IPad for a few reasons: I thought: ok I can organize my files electronically, there is an apple pencil so I can draw, but what about integrating powerpoints? Is there a way to take written notes with the PowerPoint?Īfter scouring the internet, and trying out friend’s iPads, I decided on the iPad Pro and the 2nd Gen Apple Pencil. Also all of the apps that went along with them. That’s when I began learning about the iPad and the apple pencil.
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So I would download the powerpoint and take typed notes under each slide as the lecturer went through the presentation. The next idea I had in my sophomore year was to go electronic. I needed a better solution for my notetaking.
Inputting diagrams or charts from PowerPoint slides meant I had to print them off on paper, cut out the part I wanted, and stick it onto the page a huge waste of time and resources.
Here were my problems with written notes: It worked out ok, but wasn’t good enough. In the beginning of college I took written notes.