A Info to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

This transcript was AI-generated by Adobe Premiere Skilled and checked by me. While you see errors I missed, please go away a comment and let me know. 

Unlock Your Second Thoughts: A Info to Choosing the Best Digital Phrase-taking Apps

[Introduction]

Speaker 1: That’s the ten Minutes Coach podcast collectively along with your host, Vicki Davis.

[Selecting the Right Digital Note-taking Software]

Vicki: Hiya, that’s Vicki Davis. Proper this second I’m talking about six apps for digital note-taking. On this current, I am going to cowl digital Phrase taking notes on selecting your private system. I’ll cowl six utterly totally different software program program purposes I’ve used, along with Evernote, Notion, OneNote, Logseq, Apple Notes, and Google Maintain, and aiding a workflow that works for you. Phrase that I do launch these on YouTube and I am going to have some screenshots, although this may in all probability be utterly very good to take heed to as an audio podcast. You might merely go to the Cool Cat Coach channel on YouTube.

To start with, let’s talk about selecting your software program program. To start with, progress is a alternative requiring movement. That’s the reason I do innovate like a turtle, and twice per week I examine new points for quarter-hour, and any time I’m finding out one factor new, I am taking these notes and putting them into my digital pocket e-book. So even after I take notes on paper, I am going to snap a picture and put it into my digital pocket e-book so that I’ve it. I do use Evernote, nonetheless I’ve examined all of these devices.

Bear in mind, straightforward is more healthy. It should be accessible to you in your laptop, in your cellphone, on any machine you utilize. And for many who take widespread notes on paper, you need to have the flexibility to drag these in and hopefully search these as successfully, notably should you’re an knowledgeable and in addition you do end up taking a great deal of notes like I do needless to say fixed system SMS save time. So many individuals spend time looking out for points, nonetheless you may need to spend cash on a workflow that works for you. No guilt. You do not need to leap spherical to a bunch of assorted devices. If a paper pocket e-book works for you, use it and be unapologetic about it. I do assume that digital notes do help us on account of we can have them in our pocket on the market 24/7 after we’ve obtained our smartphone with us. I need having a digital backup even after I take notes on paper.

[Evernote: A Comprehensive Review]

So let’s start talking with Evernote now. Evernote is like people prefer it, People hate it. I’ve been using it for a really very long time. Every time I try and go away it, I end up once more in January 2023, it was acquired by a corporation known as Bending Spoons, a extremely revered software program program agency out of Europe. They’ve over 100 mil clients on all their apps, so that they did merely launch in January 2020 for a model new interface. They mounted search. It is reliable and is a fairly interface. Now they did double their price. Now you’ll be able to collaboratively edit so I can take a picture on my cellphone and the modifying that doc in Evernote. One remember about it though is I can doc audio, however it could not do audio transcription.

Now they’ve promised razor sharp A.I. choices coming shortly, so I hope that they’re going to have the flexibility to take the voice notes after which do a transcription. Nonetheless for now I typically will transcribe these voice notes sooner than I pull them into Evernote so that I don’t kind of like lose what’s in there. Nonetheless it will be fascinating to see what happens.

Evernote does assist duties. Personally, I do all my duties and to do file on account of it’s very easy to lose entry to the place these duties are. Nonetheless the extremely efficient issue is these duties could also be linked on to a remember. Now I’ve the Evernote Skilled mannequin, so I actually generate a hyperlink to the remember and put it in my to do file so that I can reopen that Evernote immediately.

I moreover put it on my meeting. Proper this second’s in such doc, an image search is obtainable on the free plan along with the skilled plan. You possibly can too use corporations like after tea if this, then that and Zapier to ship points to Evernote. So I’ve it. Ship a reproduction of every weblog put as much as an Evernote remember mechanically and archive a great deal of my digital world.

Digital rot happens to us all after which we lose points. And I don’t must lose these points and I must have the flexibility to reference and search these inside Evernote. There’s a tiny little little little bit of API now in Evernote to tidy up your notes, which doesn’t truly work good when you could have prolonged notes. Nonetheless as soon as extra, they’re promising, quote, razor sharp A.I., so it will likely be fascinating to see what happens with that.

They did add 14 new choices to the free plan. Nonetheless, now you should have 50 notes you’ll be able to have in your Evernote and it’s worthwhile to use a great deal of the choices like e mail to Evernote and it’s possible you’ll search to textual content material, which suggests you can take a picture of like your whole e-book circumstances after which look for the place that e-book is in your Evernote notes. Like that’s an occasion of the kind of stuff you’ll be able to do with determining the place points are. While you’ve obtained a great deal of books like I do, that may be a actually useful attribute. Moreover, for many who label points and put points in closets and such, you can even uncover points that strategy. So it does do seen search and in addition you do have entry to that inside the 50.

So I might counsel for many who assume for many who’re keen about it, set it up, do these 50 notes and as well as attempt my buddy Frank books, YouTube channel. He has a great deal of information on the revamped Evernote and I do plan to have him on a future current for you.

[Notion: The Collaborative and Customizable Platform]

Subsequent, let’s talk about a notion now. The one I stayed with the longest aside from Evernote was notion with my faculty college students. That’s my substitute for Wiki areas. So any time that we’re creating collaborative websites, I on a regular basis take my faculty college students into notion. I’ve a great deal of faculty college students who’re using notion now merely on their very personal. It is a very wiki like environment nonetheless very extremely efficient, very customizable and it does have some third event integrations for that voice memos state of affairs I talked about with Evernote and it has some very pretty extremely efficient AI devices.

Truly, A.I. is constructed correct in. So if a scholar has entry to notion, they’re going to use generative AI correct there. And nonetheless that’s the potential with each little factor. I suggest, it’s in Google Docs inside the shopper mannequin, it’s everywhere. So the positives of notion, it’s very easy to rearrange is flexible. There’s tons of templates, a great deal of assist neighborhood, quite a few YouTube motion pictures about one of the simplest ways to make use of notion and it has a great deal of utterly totally different methods with templates for notion.

So select your workflow, select your system, and there’s a great deal of templates. My factors with it had been two points. To start with, each little factor I pulled in from Evernote could not be searched, so the search was truly broken. And the way in which by which it’s organize is it is extremely straightforward to complete up with like an island of data over proper right here, in an island of data over proper right here, and so they don’t truly be a part of very successfully.

So that was a problem with maybe on account of I don’t want to offer it some thought, I merely must have the flexibility to throw it in my neighborhood and uncover it. The alternative issue is, is that I was shedding duties as a consequence of that exact same issue. I might have duties over proper right here and duties over there. So whereas it’s very extremely efficient and actually customizable, for many who don’t understand about databases and don’t protect each little factor in a single form of database, then it’s a very straightforward to complete up with stuff kind of everywhere.

So for large refined of us, it could be a problem. However when a scholar has a straightforward pocket e-book, they actually prefer it. It’s good for preserving e-book lists and there’s all varieties of choices with notion, so that you’d presumably must try it out. It does mix with Google Drive so you can share your notes with others. And right here is one different cool attribute.

It integrates very nicely with websites and embedding. So it will likely be very straightforward to create a class web page with a devices in it or an AQ or tech assist. If I was supporting an enormous school and I wanted to have a ton of points and I didn’t have specific software program program for it, notion could also be one factor I might check out for that.

[Microsoft OneNote: Ideal for Education]

Now let’s talk about Microsoft OneNote. So that’s my advisable remember taking system for faculty children and for lecturers by the use of Microsoft Classroom. So you can merely give handouts to varsity college students. They may hand work once more. So after I must have like a class pocket e-book after which I must have everybody have their very personal notebooks and I must have the flexibility to oversee and see how they’re taking notes.

OneNote is simply in regards to the one method to go for that. Inside Microsoft Classroom, it’s not pretty as wiki like as notion. Suppose additional scholar pocket e-book so that they’ve subjects. Now you can sort anyplace on the internet web page, which is admittedly superior. Inside the totally different ones don’t truly do that. It’s easy to grab video audio and I can have it open on my iPad and take notes by hand along with open on my laptop and pull in PowerPoint notes that I can take notes beside.

So it’s large, large versatile, good for college kids. And truly, I had a scholar, he’s now a well being care supplier come once more to me. I taught her in tenth grade. She started using OneNote then and he or she talked about the easiest issue I ever taught her was digital remember taking in OneNote, on account of when she acquired into med school and even in class, she had a great deal of notes and so she was able to pull these PowerPoint notes in and take notes beside them.

So she ended up graduating with highest honors. So Microsoft, OneNote, undoubtedly worth attempting out, and full schools have carried out OneNote implementations and it’s very, very extremely efficient by the use of Microsoft Classroom. Now, for many who’re frightened about, , what, if apps go away, there could also be an open provide varied. There’s actually two. One which I’ve examined I’ll talk about is named log Search, however it is spelled l, i, g, c, Q, nonetheless pronounced log search.

[Logseq: The Open Source Alternative]

Okay. Six stands for sequence. So that’s why we pronounce that strategy. So it’s open provide. And primarily what it does is it creates a bunch of textual content material file so that you don’t ever lose one thing. And privateness is far, so it means that you can deal with duties, info and it is a very extremely efficient gadget. It actually works on Mac OS, Residence home windows, Linux, iOS, Android, it actually works on each little factor.

It has flashcards that will tutor you in all varieties of points like it would import my be taught intelligent. And so for many who want to to place in writing in markdown, you do not want to lose one thing. It is a good system. It is open provide and supported by a really cool neighborhood. Type of like the power remember taking open provide gadget Obsidian.

And it’s possible you’ll take it anyplace with you so you can sync with iOS, although typically it’s clunky to rearrange. And so then there’s moreover Google. Maintain an Apple Notes. I do educate Google protect if faculty college students are doing evaluation, nonetheless Google kind of comes and goes with apps and I don’t must lose one thing. I misplaced a bunch of stuff from Google Pocket e-book and I merely don’t want to do that as soon as extra, which is why primarily I went from Google Pocket e-book after which was truly once more to Evernote as I have been engaged on this podcast, Google has launched one factor known as Pocket e-book Ilium that I do need to say.

[Exploring Google Notebook Ilium and Other Alternatives]

Now they identify it, quote, a pocket e-book, nonetheless I have no idea that I might truly ponder it a pocket e-book. It’s practically additional like a personalized GPT that seems like a pocket e-book the place I can preload PDFs, ask it questions and save notes. So I don’t truly know that our classify Google pocket e-book ilium as a pocket e-book. Although Tiago Forte, who I’ve already talked about on this current, it truly extraordinarily recommends this as is the way in which ahead for notebooks.

Nonetheless truly, whereas I as part of notebooks, I’m not sure that I’m seeing it however. The alternative issue with Apple Notes and Google Maintain is it’s truly I found laborious to go searching. It’s merely not as extremely efficient as totally different devices. So whereas it could be good, , correct now on my monitor, I’ve like a remember on Apple notes that’s merely kind of like a Submit-it remember, a sticky.

So I exploit that. Nonetheless the Apple notes and the Google protect in my experience, aren’t the most effective. Now, that talked about, be straightforward. Use a workflow that works for you. And I do know people who’ve a improbable workflow with Apple Notes, so I might counsel discovering YouTube video. Lastly, anybody who makes use of Apple Notes or Google Maintain for many who truly must do these methods.

[Developing Effective Note-Taking Habits]

And so the very final thing I would like to discuss is your habits for notes. In order that it’s worthwhile to have a seize conduct. Now, everywhere, all my file folders, I’ve an app inbox, so that’s the place I put stuff I have not obtained time to file, nonetheless my goal is to file as shortly as potential. As soon as extra, to supply Forte’s developing a second thoughts.

He has a system he calls pair of, nonetheless I’ve tailor-made it to be path initiatives, areas of labor, issues of curiosity and historic previous and whether or not or not in my Google drive on my Mac folder system OneDrive to do file Evernote I’ve an inbox the place I put points that I am going to course of later. This line should line up collectively along with your totally different system.

So I exploit the equivalent folder development everywhere in the way in which by which I file isbut the place I’ll use it. So for example, after I clip one factor cool about I that I’ll put them on e-newsletter, I’ll put it in my e-newsletter folder after I finish using it, and I imagine I would wish to jot down a weblog put up.

I’ll put it in my 80 days of age. I now using tags in Evernote. I can on a regular basis uncover it beneath the tag, nonetheless I try and file it by the place I am going to use it subsequent. Which may be a recreation changer for me. So digital notes are vital in deciding on a system that works for you. That is straightforward, that works collectively along with your workflow, can truly allow you to be way more productive and save a great deal of time along with your scholar’s remember taking is one factor we should at all times educate.

And nearly all of these methods have Cornell constructed into them. Nonetheless shortly we’ll in all probability be seeing some generative AI summarization. Even as soon as we do, the tactic of taking notes is crucial. And I do want to emphasise one factor with math and science. I’ve seen some evaluation that talks about how we’ve to primarily be taking notes, using our palms and handwriting for math inside science on account of we retain it greater.

So in that case, can they take a picture and put it into their pocket e-book system? So do what’s a relevant based totally upon the evaluation and your experience as a teacher. Bear in mind, instructing is a kind of paintings and a murals. In order that it’s worthwhile to do what works to your faculty college students and help them develop a remember taking system of their very personal.