The Battlestation of an MD-PhD Student

• 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. 
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