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Note Taking Tips?
Adam Schoales | Sep 29 2007
I'm in my first year of university and trying desperately to come up with the best way to take notes on my mac... I've been looking into notae and yojimbo (I like the tagging features alot, but dislike that I can't put in pictures and such) but have heard good things about journler and devonthink. The problem with Notae (which I used today) is everything is in SQL databases which is going to make it difficult. Plus most of these apps REQUIRE you to make a new database file rather than a bunch of text files which it will database and collect, etc. I've also heard wiki's are a great way to take notes but have no clue how to do so on my mac. So please, if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them. I'm sure there are many like me who also would love to know any suggestions for great apps for us Univeristy kids. 105 Comments
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 Something from the Borg...Submitted by asparagus on September 30, 2007 - 6:46am.
I have this problem as well and have tried many of the products suggested earlier. I'm a law student and would agree with the ~95% of law students taking notes on a laptop. Truth be told, i've seen dozens and dozens of ways, so choose whatever you want. For myself, I use Microsof OneNote for taking notes. I find a semester tolder on the left, subject on the top, and date on the right to be highly intuitive. It's searchable, and I use it in XP on Parallels. Parallels sucks up ~6% cpu, so I don't mind leaving it on permanently. OneNote can do some of the features others have mentioned, but since it's running in a secondary OS it's not quite as smooth as some. However, I found the pages aspect to some of the programs mentioned to be limiting - in onenote, it's just a blank expanding space, you write in all the text you desire. Creating columns and charts are quite easy, as well. I keep a second folder for all my passwords on a separate notebook, so I don't have to try to find them - just search for 43folders.com or whatever website in OneNote and there's your password. You can also export OneNote notes to Word if so desired. Most bookstores sell a copy for ~$20 and a student copy of XP/Vista for $20-60, so it's not quite as pianful to the wallet to have a legal copy as you woul imagine. As others have said, outlining and taking notes are highly personal tasks, so try every app here for a few days to see what you like. Good Luck! » POSTED IN:
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