• Note taking while in class
○ Notability:
§ Primary Use Case:
□ Note taking in class
§ Pros
□ Cross Platform between iOS, and OSX.
□ Stylus allows for palm rejection in the app
□ Audiolinking to what you write, with a sliding device that can track the audio as you follow along the notes.
□ Insertion of additional
§ Cons:
□ Cost of the app.
○ OneNote:
§ Primary Use Case:
□ Noting down, with more control.
§ Pros:
□ None-linear note taking, allowing for creativity to occur.
® Allows you to work in large canvas like a wall.
◊ Limitation: how big your desktop is.
□ Microsoft level word processing.
□ Humancentric organizing system.
® Tabs to imitate filing systems
® Pages in the side bar to imitate different pages within the filing system.
□ Drawing capabilities.
□ Main use: Noting down points in scientific articles. (Look to the side)
§ Cons:
□ Requires a subscription to Microsoft suite, if you're in school then see if you have free access to it.
□ Larger learning curve for more usability.
□ Can't edit pdfs in the file, but you can import pdfs.
® (Tip) Edit the pdfs outside, then import it
○ Evernote:
§ Primary Use Case:
□ my central hub where I dump a large sum of anything.
§ Pros:
□ Very powerful in searches
® OCR Recognition. (Both OneNote has that too)
® Handwriting recognition. (Both OneNote has that too)
□ Powerful organization system
® Level 1 Organization: Individualize notes with tags (figure 2)
® Level 2 Organization: Notebook
® Level 3 Organization: Notebooks within notebooks
® Level 4 Organization: Notebooks within notebooks with note books.
□ Cross Platform
® OSX, iOS, PC, Android.
□ Audio recording
□ Basic text editing
□ Figure 3 shows the basic note taking capabilities of the Evernote app.
® The square aroudn the word diabetes show's that it's the word I was searching for.
® As you can see in figure 3, there are images in the sides of the notes, like Lab. Those are images imported from my phone for my lab work.
® They are full res images of the files in PNG, or Jpeg.
® If you're in lab, that's a great source if note collection.
□ It's a really good for receipts and paper documents in life too.
® Figure 4
◊ Show's my audi car information, such as 15k mile check up, registration (blurred out), and car fix history as well.
□ Their document scanning capabitlity on the iOS is really good.
§ Cons:
□ Premium verison cost 50 bucks year I think, that's when you have all these cool features..
□ Linear note system.
□ The app is okay, not amazing, just okay.
□ Slight learnnign curve? But I think it's def worth it.