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Microsoft OneNote tutorial for study, class and lecture by emmastudies

Hello! I have had numerous people message me about how I structure my notes for OneNote so I thought I would put together a tutorial! Above is a small run down of the program and my little two cents on each feature. But now I’m going to go into a little more detail to help anyone who is looking for somewhere to type their notes. Through I’ll suggest my ideas on how to use OneNote for different reasons including study notes, class notes and lecture/tutorial notes.

Set up and use:

Start by downloading OneNote from the App Store or from their website if you’re using a PC. It is free!!! I would definitely recommend downloading the mobile or tablet app as well.

Sign in with an Outlook account and begin making your notebooks. For high school I would suggest a new notebook for each class. For university, I had one notebook for the entire semester. As I go into my second semester I’ll make a new one, and so one. For study notes, it is up to you. You could either make one notebook for all your study notes and use sections to divide per subject or make a new notebook for each subject again. Or simply and a new section in the existing notebook. Notebooks are linked to OneDrive meaning you can close the notebook and reopen it at any time. They’re automatically saved too, so you can edit on your phone and when you use your computer it is updated!

Start creating sections. These act as dividers so depending how you have structured your notebook, make them for either each topic of your subject (high school) or each of your classes/subjects (university). For my high school class/study notes I made a new section for each new topic and for university I have one per subject. As you can see in the photoset; my notebook was legal studies (subject) and each section was for a topic (crime, human rights, family, consumers, assessments and homework).

Create your pages for each time you have class. Add the title of what you’re doing and start typing your notes. For my lectures I usually just name them “lecture 1”, “lecture 2” because I’m lazy, however for study notes I would use each subheading of the topic in the syllabus. If you’re wanting to understand my headings and subheadings completely I suggest checking out the legal studies syllabus that I created the above notes too (you can see it here on page 26).

Time for decoration and colour coding. Usually as I’m typing I bold or underline and colour code but you can always go back and do it as a revision method. This also gives you a chance to add any extra information you find! You can see an explanation of my colour code in the final image of the photoset. I found colour coding and formatting super helpful when I was studying for my HSC final exams!

Printing time! When I had finished my study notes (or class notes) I would print them so I had a physical copy to highlight and annotate. Here is where it gets a little fiddly. To print on one A4 size piece of paper without cutting off half your text, you need to shrink the size of the text box. This is what you might see - with half the text cut off. I would say reduce it to about half the original size - you can usually see on print preview how close it is to the edge. After you have made the textbox thinner, it should look like this. Another tip is printing using one sheet for two or more pages. This helps to reduce the amount of paper you’re using. On the print settings look for “pages per sheet” and change it to the number of pages you want (obviously the more pages, the smaller the font). It should look something like this (I’m not 100% sure if every computer or printer has this option, but for reference I use an Epson printer).

That is pretty much it for how I use OneNote for my all my different types of notes! It is very simple once you’ve organised everything! I would 100% recommend this program. We were advised to use it in year 9 when we received laptops from the government and I’ve not stopped using it. Althought there are some different between the Mac and PC versions, the main elements are the same. However you can check out this post by @vanesastudies which is for the PC version. I hope this tutorial was helpful. If there is anything I’ve missed out, drop me an ask. Thank you for reading! x

simplykaren

Found this because of @sanddoc06 . No clue where it originally came from, but I had to share it.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

stop looking for some specific type of closure you’ll never get. Closure doesn’t mean verbal verification of the end. If a person dropped you like you meant nothing to them and never told you why or said goodbye, it means they didn’t care enough to treat you right and never will and that you’re better off without them. That’s the end. That’s your closure.

cosmicrew

dxmedstudent

Single doctor culture is…

Joking with your doctor friends about wanting to be with a rich partner so you don’t have to work silly shifts any more (but really, so you don’t have to worry about becoming baknrupt if you have to take time out for sick leave or burnout). Or wanting a house-husband/wife to do everything for you (but really so you can do your job without also having to do most of the housework, particularly if you are a woman).

But in reality having to be both of those people for yourself, because you are in charge of your own life, wherever the hell it is heading.

doc-resilient

Single doctor culture is…

Staying past your shift whether it is to get the work done, do something a little extra mile, or to catch up with colleagues and then wondering on your late drive home whether you would be better at leaving if you had to optimize time with a significant other.

dxmedstudent

I feel this, too. Perhaps colleagues with kids or a partner are more focused on getting home in time, because the stakes are higher for them.

Single Doctor Culture is…

Trying to be honest with dates about the limitations of your work and lifestyle without sounding like a total downer.

Because the best way to attract people who accept you for you is to be the best version of yourself, but also being open about your life.

doc-resilient

Yes!!!

Single Doctor Culture is…

Reflecting on prior people you dated (can you even call them exes?) and second-guessing if it was the lack of spark that made you end it or was it because it was intern year and you had just come off a long stretch of nights.

Alternatively, thinking about “exes” and wondering if those incompatibilities were REALLY such dealbreakers because what’s so wrong with settling anyway…

(You have just enough free time for these thoughts. The blessing in disguise is your next shift is about to start so you’re too busy to actually go down that road.)

dxmedstudent

Single doctor culture is…

…realising it’s that much harder to date when you work unsociable hours, because sometimes you really are too busy and tired for it. But also knowing people in medicine who were dumped because “you always had to work”, and really hoping that doesn’t happen to you. Trying patiently to explain to people who clearly have all their evenings free that actually, you will probably work late, or actually, you have nights, or actually, you booked a meetup with medic friends like 3 months ago. It can be hard to explain just how difficult your timetable is, sometimes.

Also, not even knowing what is appropriate date conversation with non-medics any more. For Pete’s sake, I’ve mentioned dead bodies so many times on recent dates that it’s become an in-joke at this point.

Trying to work out if it’s better to date other doctors (but risk your timetables always clashing, and your conversation always being about work), or non-medics (and dealing with people who just don’t get how intense your life really is); and realising there is no easy answer. The right person can be either. Single doctor culture is also wishing that it’d be nice if the right person came along a little quicker, because this is exhausting, you have way too many other things to do, and there are so many people out there who are patently not it.

belleofthehospital

Single med student culture is…

trying to meet someone, while also wondering if there’s any point to dating when you will likely be moving to a different state for residency in a little over a year and unless you meet mr. right RIGHT now, knowing no one will actually follow you/make it work long distance when you haven’t been dating that long

dxmedstudent

This. Since my job involves rotating hospitals every year (usually differnt towns or at least different ends of London) and theoretically having to move to different parts of the country if you don’t get in where you want for the next step of the training. Literally having to factor in moving around and whether it’s worth getting to know someone if you’re going to have to move, and how likely they might be to actually want to keep anything going.

fuckstudy

“But also knowing people in medicine who were dumped because “you always had to work”, and really hoping that doesn’t happen to you.”

This.

lamby-grahamy

Hope I’m not butting in, but -

I never understood people who dump people who work often. I get it if they don’t *have* to stay at work and choose to, but if they’re doing something lifesaving like medicine or firefighting etc like???? Why in the hell would somebody get mad at them for that??

You *can* make flexible plans. You *can* have a nice, quiet night in, or snuggles at 3AM when the other person gets home. Y’all can get up early on a morning where you got some sleep the night before and pack lunches together. You can read a book, make annotations and lovey notes and give it to your partner. Just a simple “hey i love you” text is enough to stay connected! You don’t have to be joined at the hip all the time! Trust your partner! Let them do their important job!!! In these kinds of professions, “you work too much” isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you *plan around it.*

I mean, I guess people feel neglected, but I just don’t understand. Maybe it’s because I’m not terribly relationship-oriented, but the idea of having a partner who works a lot in medicine or some other necessary profession (maybe not like, somebody who’s high up at work in a major corporation who has a lot of free time they could be spending at home) that necessitates a lot of time put in and then dumping them for it is like??? You knew what you were getting into and if you need that constant attention get a dog or something ????

I must be coming from a weird place but it’s always shocked me when people dump each other because lifesaving work takes up “too much” time.

Edit: I think also my intrusion is partly to let you know that there are people out in the world who don’t mind you working a lot, or struggling, or needing somebody to pick up the slack. Idk. We’re here and we care about y’all.

dxmedstudent

I wouldn’t consider it an intrusion at all; I love sincere comments on my posts. I hope my followers feel free to comment. I can see why people want to spend more time with partners, and as a medic, I’ve been fully prepared to hear “I’m sorry, I’m looking for somoene who can be around more.” It’s not something I want to hear, because most of my commitments are not something I can do anything about, but I can’t judge people for their own criteria, even if it means they won’t see me as being ‘good enough’ to be with them. When I started dating, I dealt with this kind of thing by just being open pretty early on when I started dating; even before I met guys they would have a pretty good idea that my job involved late shifts and nights and weekends. That I wouldn’t reply at work. I talked about work quite a bit, in fact; it’s hard to avoid when your work is much of your life, but also it meant that people could learn a lot about that part of me early on, and decide for themselves. Though I wouldn’t judge people for deciding my life wasn’t for them, I try my best not to be like that; not to rule people out lightly, and to be as considerate and open minded as I could be. Finding someone is hard enough without ruling people out over things that don’t matter. But I’ll be honest: my work does make things harder, sometimes. When I have to work the weekend and it means another week without seeing them, that sucks Hey, when you like someone, even if you see them as often as you reasonably can, you probably want to see them more because they matter to you. I find that good communication is key; as is effort. As you suggest,people can do their best to work around things, and that can really help. If you do your best, anyone you date should be able to appreciate the time and effort you are putting in. It might be easier when you live together (isn’t that the dream), or even in the same town (Sigh), but I’ve noticed that even colleagues of mine who live with their partner can still struggle to spend quality time with them due to work commitments. I’ve had senior colleagues tell me that they haven’t spent any time with their spouse in the past 3 weeks, and they live with them. I really hope that if I am lucky enough to end up with someone, that I don’t put them through that. I want to be the best partner I can be, despite the difficulties that my job poses. For me, although I really wanted to date someone outside of medicine (because, let’s be honest, I already have lots of medical friends and what I really need is someone who grounds me as a person) I hoped that non-medics could understand my work commitments. Medics are busy, so dating other medics can be a pain (not only do you talk about work all the time, but coordinating two such timetables? Extra hard), but at least they can’t judge you for it. Part of me always worried that any non-doc I liked would talke one look at my life and go “Why would I deal with that when I could find some GF who has loads of time to spend with me?”. And honestly, I don’t know how I could answer that. It’s not that I think I’m a bad catch; I’m a nice enough person, interesting in my own way, and decent enough looking with a ‘good job’; but then so are many others who don’t have to work nights and aren’t often in some exhausted career crisis. Given that online dating in particular is fast paced and cutthroat - people feel that they have the choice of thousands and thousands of potential dates. I have to count on the fact that someone out there will be prepared to deal with the things I can’t currently change about my job. Even when people agree to date, when you’re relatively early on in relationships, people aren’t very invested at first. Dating is provisional, especially at the beginning, when you’re trying a promising new person to see how you get on. Even though people knew at the start, perhaps it didn’t seem as big a deal until a few months into the relationship. Perhaps the initial glamour slowly wore off, and perhaps the datemate’s work commitments just became more obvious the longer they date. Perhaps they just don’t feel they are meeting enough to keep that spark going. Perhaps they feel that they could meet someone who has more time to spend with them. I’ve definitely had friends struggle with maintaining relationships due to being declared ‘too busy’ with work. I don’t necessarily think the people doing the dumping were very nice people, but nonetheless that’s a very real fear for a lot of medical folk. We know we have to work long hours. We already miss lots of friend and family events and even important life events. Nobody is more conscious than us just how much medicine takes over our lives. So we know that people might find our lives… difficult. We do, too. I also was very much looking for someone with their own social life and hobbies, because between my work and my own interests and friends, I wanted to make sure that my person won’t be left feeling lonely because I’m oncall or occasionally out with friends. That’s not to say that they wouldn’t be welcome to join me if I’m indulging in a hobby, or with friends ( hey, if our interests align, even better! If we get on with each other’s friends, that’s absolutely awesome!) but I really wanted to feel that they would be able to enjoy life even when I’m not around. We’ve mostly been talking about starting dating, and those early days when people are still working out if being with each other works. I’d guess that once someone decides that they love someone enough to commit to a life with them despite their difficult work-life balance and irregular hours, a lot of people do their best to make it work. But even then, I guess all sorts of things can take their toll on relationships in the longterm. Just like everyone else, docs also end up breaking up later down the line; we have our fair share of divorces (though I was suprised to find out we don’t necessarily get divorced more than anyone else because I always assumed our relationships were more prone to breakdown). A friend was updating me just the other day on which consultants we knew had recently got divorced; life happens to docs as well as anyone else, and I guess spending a lot of time at work is a pretty common reason relationships can break down, in general.

thesadghostclub

Trusting yourself is HARD! Do you ghosties having any tips for feeling at peace with making your own decisions? How do you trust yourselves enough to not second guess every time decision? it is hard.

Love from the sad ghost club

fluffyfeelings

Even if it later becomes apparent that you could have made a different choice for a better outcome, you must forgive yourself for not being able to predict the future. You did the best you could with the knowledge and insight you had at the time.

dxmedstudent

Listen, friends. As someone who’s older than a lot of you, I can tell you this: Life is full of uncertainty. It’s hard to deal with uncertainty. All you can do is make the best decision at the time, based on what you believe and know at the time. That’s it. Sometimes, you’ll look back, and you’ll realise something else might ultimately have worked better. Other times, you’ll think you made the right choice. Many times, you’ll realise that ultimately, what you did didn’t matter very much, because the forces that moved things ultimately didn’t depend on you. You did the best you could, and you should be proud of that, even if things didn’t always turn out how you predicted, or hoped. Much of life is outside of our control; people are hard to predict, events will always seemingly come out of nowhere, and life is full of surprises. But you can’t opt out of living. That doesn’t save on the hurt, and it doesn’t stop you from regretting.

todayesterday

love at first sight: when you walk into a new café and you fall in love with it right then and there 🍃

cartoonhangover

(Source: 107 Facts About Spirited Away)

hemodyke-deactivated20180710

as a former ten-year-old and current girl, thanks

esoteric-merit

Man, one of the big reasons why Spirited Away really grabbed me, was that I felt that Chihiro did most of the same things that I would’ve done if I was her. On retrospect, certain things are really obvious now.

marscia

“ Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you.

This storm is you. Something inside of you. ”

— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

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thebusistudent

THERE IS A FONT THAT IS DESIGNED TO MAKE U REMEMBER EVERYTHING

I don’t usually share a whole lot but THIS IS INCREDIBLE

http://sansforgetica.rmit/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Sans_Forgetica&utm_content=Launch_Video

coffeeandnotebooksandpens

I’ve been using this for my APUSH notes and I absolutely LOVE it! Sure I get strange looks from my teacher when he looks over my shoulder at what I’m typing, but whatever works, works, right?

thebusistudent

I’m SO happy that this reached so many people oh my goodness

It’s such an incredible project and I hope it has helped heaps of you amazing students to study <3

saph-studies

This is so cool 🦔

tiny-personal-university-thing

Reblogging for later.

bookandslugclub

It’s called Sans Forgetica! Designed by a team of researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, whose idea was to create a slightly more difficult reading experience, forcing the reader to absorb each word as they stare at it. [x]

ommanyte

me, looking at the current state of the world, crying:I wish none of this had happened…

Gandalf, materialising in my conscience, smiling kindly: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, besides the will of evil.

saccharinescorpion

so this is an extremely cool resource

the JSTOR article by Catherine Halley

a list of series at Reveal Digital

asabutchlesbianblog

Wow!!

kingwizardandthelizardgizza-blog

Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters

quasarkisses

they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay

“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”

“Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”

“He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”

“It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”

“If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”

nudityandnerdery

And, of course: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

assassinregrets

the one that will always stay with me is “Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,” i feel like that was the first time i really understood what you could do with words.

marsdaydream

I will reblog this every time I see it because these are some of my favorite sentences in the English language.

aughtpunk

If y’all ever wondered where my descriptions like “trying to close a tupperware container with far too many hotdogs inside” this is it, this is the man you should blame

superdogbiter

Aziraphale:”No more making fun of me when i misuse dated cultural references, okay? Are we cowabunga on this?

Crowley, sighing:”Fine we’re cowabunga”

catchymemes

Cosplayer Kiera Please!

IG: kieraplease

itsbeezo

This should have way more notes she murdered these 😍

fannishflightsoffancy

I can’t deal with how kickass these cosplays are.

caffeinated-silly

...I wish I looked this good!!! 😭

block

Anonymously tell me what time it is there and what you're thinking about.

interstellarisms-deactivated201

Words to Describe Someone's Voice

I went scouting through the internet for words to describe a character’s voice. Here’s a handy list for all you writers:

Adenoidal/Nasal - Some of the sound seems to come through the nose.

Appealing - Shows that you want help, approval, or agreement.

Breathy - With loud breathing noises.

Brittle - You sound as if you are about to cry.

Croaky - Sounds as if they have a sore throat.

Dead - They feel or show no emotion.

Disembodied - Voice comes from someone who you cannot see.

Flat - Spoken in a voice that does not go up and down.

Fruity - Deep and strong in a pleasant way.

Grating - Unpleasant and annoying.

Gravelly - Low and rough.

Gruff - Has a rough low sound.

Guttural - Deep and made at the back of your throat.

High-Pitched - Very high and shrill.

Hoarse - Low rough voice, usually because their throat is sore.

Honeyed - Falsely sweet voice.

Husky - A husky voice is deep and sounds hoarse often in an attractive way.

Low - Quiet and difficult to hear / in a deep voice.

Matter-of-fact - Used about someone’s behavior or voice.

Modulated - Controlled and pleasant to listen to.

Monotonous - Boring because it does not change in loudness or become higher or lower.

Orotund - Loud and clear.

Penetrating - So high or loud that it makes you uncomfortable.

Plummy - This word shows that you dislike people who speak like this.

Quietly - In a quiet voice.

Raucous - Loud and sounds rough.

Ringing - very loud and clear.

Rough - Not soft and is unpleasant to listen to.

Shrill - Very loud, high, and unpleasant.

Silvery - Clear, light, and pleasant.

Singsong - Rises and falls in a musical way.

Small - A small voice or sound is quiet.

Smoky - Sexually attractive in a slightly mysterious way.

Softly Spoken - A quiet gentle voice.

Sotto Voce - A very quiet voice.

Stentorian - Loud and severe.

Strangulated - One that someone stops before they finish making it.

Strident - Loud and unpleasant.

Taut - Shows someone is nervous or angry.

Thick - Voice sounds less clear because of an emotion.

Thin - High and unpleasant to listen to.

Throaty - Low and seems to come from deep in your throat.

Tight - Shows that you are nervous or annoyed.

Toneless - Does not express any emotion.

Tremulous - It is not steady because you are afraid or excited.

Wheezy - Has difficulty breathing.

Wobbly - Unstable tone due to fright or emotions.

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