Lecture notes on iPad

[rekhyt]

I use it for notes in meetings....Penultimate is great for hand written notes. For typing notes, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Evernote. All your notes will be available on the iPad, iPhone and online instantly, has a built in sound recorder to attach sound to notes and you can email yourself attachments to save in Evernote. They do a great job with it and are always improving the App.

You use Evernote too? About the sound-recording function: (I don't have the iPad so I don't know if it has this function or not.) does it record sound while you are typing in a text note? That sounds like a very useful feature.

I don't know what these guys are talking about, note taking on the ipad is easy as hell. I bring my iPad to college everyday. Smaller than a notebook, i just throw it in my bag, take it out in every class, and it's neat and keeps things organized. There's no more sharpening pencils for me, scrambling through papers to find the notes im looking for, its literally a life safer and has improved my grades drastically. I use notability currently, and its pretty damn good. The one thing i never understood is the point of a stylus for handwriting note taking apps like penultimate; that is just way too slow. I have a stylus, but i use it for drawing diagrams in notability, thats it. I type quite fast on my iPad, typed all this quite easily, so it's definitely not too slow. Not to mention i can organize my notes in such a way that a notebook or even paper could never do. I also have books that I need for my classes stored in my iPad, I scan documents like handouts, syllabus', etc. onto my ipad with my iphone and soon to be iPad 2 into readdledocs which is also organized by classes. Life is just easier, plain and simple.

Interesting way of scanning documents. I have to admit, very innovative and creative. Are your scanned documents organised together with your notes?

 

[MagnumOP]

Just do what one kid in my class does: watch surf videos.

I teach in a university and laptops are the worst thing for this. The screen is vertical so the person using it feels safe to chat, surf, game, etc. And many kids do it. It has been my experience that the nature of the iPad keeps people on task more. Every one is right when they say it is harder to take handwritten notes, but kids are usually less distracted when they follow along on an iPad.

 

[bpd115]

You use Evernote too? About the sound-recording function: (I don't have the iPad so I don't know if it has this function or not.) does it record sound while you are typing in a text note? That sounds like a very useful feature.



Yes, you can use it as you are typing text.

 

[Mitch2742]

Well what I was thinking is that I will replace my wireless bluetooth keyboard with the longer wired keyboard/numpad for the iMac, and use the wireless keyboard as a typing mate for the iPad. But I'll look quite douche-like typing with a wireless keyboard for the iPad in class. Who does that??? but I'm desperate. Plus a lot of the reviews for the cases with the keyboards built in are saying they're crap.

There is a girl in one of my classes that does that. The first day I saw her I thought it looked kind of silly and, hmm, somehow snobbish. But after that initial feeling, I began to get sort of envious and I'm sure after Friday I'll be sitting in the same class doing the same exact thing as she. Who cares what people think?

 

[xDKP]

CourseNotes

I love my iPad and the Apple cover for notetaking in class.. I study Leadership and Organizationtheory at Copenhagen Business School, and use nothing but my iPad as a notetaking device.

I use CourseNotes for the in-class notes, so cool with the ability to write notes in bulletpoints, draw some scetches and stuff like that - and have it all organized in my one app - really a blockbuster app for me.

 

[myoldwatermill]

How many wpm can you type on a keyboard? I'd guess if you can do 80 on the iPad, you must be well over 100 on a keyboard.

Yes sir! I also think not taking transcriptions from your teachers help.

You do key words. Then reinterpretations of the material as it happens... You don't really need 100 or 80 or even 60 words per minute.

Hearing all this talk about the ipad being unintuiative for note taking... I am wondering how everyone approaches note taking in general anyway.

I actually saw this fellow on another forum show his method of note taking on his iPad. Pretty darned impressed, I might have to try out his method and see how it works.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4071319/FacepunchPublic/MindMap.PNG

This method of note taking, really seems to lend itself well to the iPad. I think I would be a little more detailed oriented in my attempts, just to get some context, but I can really see how this would work well for him.

 

[Rodvette]

Why not just use pen and paper like 99% of the class?

if this person is like myself I can type ALOT faster then I can write, also it alot easier on my eyes when I look back on the notes I typing compared to writing.

I am not saying that you should not use a pen and paper (it has its good uses), but I feel its a more efficient way of taking notes, if you can discipline yourself to not browse the internet or go online shopping


I use to think buying an external keyboard for the ipad was unnecessary since you have a v keyboard...but i can see how it helps

wireless keyboard for the ipad? that's hella douchey!!!!!

i want one...

 

[Musician]

If you still look for an app which can replace pen and paper during lectures try Lecture Notes for iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lecture-notes-texts-drawings/id693052161?l=ru&ls=1&mt=8