For sociology classes, there’s a lot of articles to read and by importing them into GoodNotes I can annotate the article right then and there instead of printing it out. You can import PowerPoint lectures and articlesĪ lot of my professors teach using PowerPoints, so I can import them into GoodNotes and write directly on the slides. For example, I have a folder named “Spring 2020” for the spring semester of this year and within that folder are more folders for each course I am currently taking. In GoodNotes, you can create folders and choose different covers for each notebook. Digital Notes Pros Everything stays in one place Here are some of the things I noticed while taking digital notes on my iPad and laptop versus taking notes on paper. What I will say is within that time the battle between digital notes and paper notes has come to an end.

Personally, I still hand write my notes because I have a slight (nothing serious) obsession with gel pens.Īfter being in college for three years, I’d like to think that I have my note taking process down pat, but I’d be lying. On the other hand, there is the classic staple: handwritten notes. You can either type them on your computer using OneNote or with the iPad and Apple Pencil most students use Notability and/or GoodNotes. When you search digital notetaking on YouTube, there are a number of videos where people show you their preferred way of taking digital notes. I went back to those videos and studied their techniques and the small things I wasn’t noticing before.

I considered giving up, but I didn’t want my mom to feel like she wasted her money. On Christmas morning, I received an iPad with the Apple Pencil, and with the help of my extensive YouTube research, I bought GoodNotes within the same hour.Īt first, I struggled taking notes on my iPad only because I wanted the aesthetic Pinterest notes, but digitally. That was the day I considered going paperless.Īfter telling my mom about the girl, along with a thorough bullet point list on why I needed the iPad, she told me that she’d consider it. Her iPad was the same size as the screen on my MacBook Pro, and I grew curious. All of a sudden another student pulls out this massive iPad with an Apple Pencil and sat it on her desk. It was freshman year and I was sitting in my SOC 100 class grabbing my designated notebook along with three pens for a nice color scheme.

Using onenote on ipad with apple pencil