Taking Notes With Technology

Taking Notes With Technology Image via pexels.com Websites   At one point or another in your college career, you will encounter Google Docs and love its convenience when it comes to sharing and taking notes. Google Docs allows you to take notes just as you would on any other word document. With a few simple clicks, you are able to share the document to classmates for further studying. Google Docs also allows for collaborative note-taking make the document open for viewing and editing for your fellow classmates. Your classmates can directly add to your notes, filling in any information you may have missed in lecture, or offering their own thoughts on the lectures content. One of the most convenient aspects of Google Docs is that you can take your notes with you wherever you go, without having to carry around your laptop or tablet. Google Docs has an app for smartphones, allowing you to view your notes on your phone and edit them whenever needed. Similar to the sharing qualities that Google Docs has, the website OneClass acts as one large Dropbox for lecture notes, instructional videos, and exam study guides. The site lets you upload your own notes and download those of other users so that you can compare your notes to others and improve the quality of your own notes. If you have the software of Microsoft Office on your laptop and/or tablet, Microsoft OneNote is another option for taking notes with technology and keeping them organized in one place. Just like any word-processing app, you can type notes just as you would on a word document, but you can also incorporate multimedia into your note-taking on OneNote. OneNote allows you to easily incorporate clippings from the internet, or diagrams drawn with a touch screen (if using a tablet), into your notes taken on the software. With OneNote, you can make countless digital notebooks for different courses and carry them around in a single technological device without worrying about carrying specific folders/notebooks around campus. Before purchasing Microsoft Office software, make sure you check if your university has free Microsoft Office for enrolled students, or if the seller you are buying from has a discount for college students.