Favorite App For Note Taking
I adore OneNote.
This is why:
-OneNote is almost like a real life notebook page. You can type a section of text anywhere on the page you want, and it’s fast. Just click and type. You can also drag, or reshape the text box if you want. Very speedy when you’re in the middle of a lecture and you want to put a quick note or to-do to yourself in the “margin”
-Insert photos, links, highlight, bold, underline, draw you have it all!
-One of my favorite features: record audio of a lecture while you take notes and OneNote tracks what notes you’re taking at what point in the lecture recording. Then if you miss something because the lecturer is talking too fast, you easily can go back after class. (There are often “ADD NOTES HERE” in my notes to remind myself haha)
-Organization: I love OneNote’s organization. You can make different notebooks, have different pages within each notebook, and then different sections. The problem with GoogleDrive or Word is that they are still separate files that take time to switch between. You also have to hit save on those, while OneNote saves everything automatically. tl;dr it feels like a real notebook to me. Except nice and lightweight in my computer.
-Synching. Doesn’t matter if my computer crashes, all my notes are backed up in the cloud. They synch across your phone, your iPad, anything you like. I can “log into” OneNote and view my notes from a web browser like Chrome if I’m on a different computer. If you don’t have internet access, that’s ok! It saves locally on your computer, and as soon as you have wifi, automatically syncs.
-Free. Thank goodness. You do need to make a microsoft account log in, but horray, that’s free too! (I promise no one’s paying me to say this. I just really like OneNote!) —
Thank you @we-get-shit-done for inspiring this post idea after I saw this post :)
