<p>just curious</p>
<p>Some write, some type.</p>
<p>I use my laptop for mostly everything.</p>
<p>But for science/math classes I use a notebook.</p>
<p>I tend to learn better if I write things, so I always take notes on paper. I only brought my laptop if I needed to work on things between classes and I didn’t want to go to a computer lab.</p>
<p>Most use notebooks, mostly because they are too poor to afford a laptop.</p>
<p>I prefer a notebook. I have a 17" laptop that’s a pain in the ass to drag everywhere, I have another that’s 15" but it’s on the old side and takes forever to boot.</p>
<p>I also am one of those people who just get distracted easily, instead of paying attention, I’ll go online, play games–do anything except listen to the lecture.</p>
<p>But in general, it’s just quicker/easier for me to use a notebook and it’s easier to remember things that I’ve handwritten versus typed.</p>
<p>It’s mixed at my college, though. Half will use a laptop/netbook, the other half will stick with pen and paper.</p>
<p>This thread is a fail. Laptops are also called notebooks.</p>
<p>Paper. In any of my classes, there are probably only 2-3 laptops being used.</p>
<p>I would almost just as rather use a laptop since I can type much faster than I can write…</p>
<p>I use my netbook when I can. But in any class where I need to write equations I use either just a notebook or a combination.</p>
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<p>So do you have an adequate synonym for the word notebook?</p>
<p>^Paper, perhaps?</p>
<p>While I don’t necessarily like to call things like this so prematurely, I’ll probably use paper because I type too loudly. I think that would be really distracting if someone was sitting there in a lecture clacking away. I don’t want other people to do it, so I won’t do it myself.</p>
<p>I think it just depends on the school…my friend goes to one school and everyone there brings there laptops to class, but at my school it’s really rare unless it’s a business class were you needed the required computers. There was maybe one person with a laptop in two of my five classes last semester. I prefer writing because I remember stuff better by writing it out than I do by typing it.</p>
<p>A laptop is really useful if you are a good typist. I type fast enough that I can think about what the prof is saying and then type it out in my own words, which helps retention. I have a hard time doing that when I am writing my notes by hand. </p>
<p>I used OneNote last semester and thought it was really awesome. I like being able to format my notes quickly so I don’t miss anything in the lecture. I also like being able to move stuff around on the fly, which is helpful if you have a scatter-brained professor who goes off on tangents regularly. OneNote is the only reason I am keeping a windows drive on my netbook. I am going to experiment with BasKet net semester, but I don’t think it will be as good as OneNote.</p>
<p>OneNote? Basket? </p>
<p>elaborate :D</p>
<p><a href=“http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx[/url]”>http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx</a>
Download the free trial, you will be hooked in a few days.</p>
<p>[BasKet</a> Note Pads](<a href=“http://basket.kde.org/]BasKet”>http://basket.kde.org/)
It is a Linux alternative, but not nearly as good as OneNote.</p>
<p>OneNote is part of MS Office, a note taking software that puts everything into “notebooks” and even has a feature to record lectures and highlight what was typed on playback. </p>
<p>Great software.</p>
<p>I use a tabletpc for everything. It is my notebook, my textbook and my laptop. It’s a whole lot better than carrying around textbooks AND a laptop AND notebooks. Oh yeah, it’s my graphing calculator too.</p>
<p>do they have onenote on the mac version of office?</p>
<p>^ No onenote for Mac</p>