Taking Notes on Laptops

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<p>I have a question for those who take notes on laptops. I have a laptop, but I never bring it to class because I'm not quite sure how to takes notes on a laptop. I can type fast, that's not the issue. Its that I wouldn't know how to organize the notes. Do you just use Microsoft Word for notes or is there a program that I do not know about? What about when the professor is making a chart or diagram? What do you do then? I've always wanted to take notes on my laptop so I wouldn't have to worry about running out of and buying paper, but I just love how unlimited I am in what I can put down on the paper.</p>

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<p>[Zim</a> - a desktop wiki](<a href=“http://zim-wiki.org/]Zim”>http://zim-wiki.org/)</p>

<p>Available for both Windows and Linux.</p>

<p>I will admit that I’m a big legal pad person. There’s something nice about the feel of the pen on paper.</p>

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<p>If you have Word check and see if you have OneNote. When I took notes on my laptop or computer in the class room that’s what I used.</p>

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<p>“Notebook Layout View” on Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac.</p>

<p>Works like a charm. There’s also a “record” feature in this view, so you can record lectures while you’re taking notes.</p>

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<p>Yeah, taking notes on laptops kind of blows because of this. It probably isn’t a big deal if you aren’t in a math or sciency-type major, though.</p>

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I have never heard of this program before. Is it hard to use? Is it a safe download?</p>

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I just checked. I don’t have OneNote.</p>

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I have Word 2003 on a PC. However, this inspired me to look and it has an “Outline” format. I was playing around with it in this view and it looks like it should be good. The thing is, when I look at the print preview, I lose the bullets from the Outline view. It just looks like a regular text with no organization. Its not a big deal if I don’t want to print though. Anyone have experience taking notes like this?</p>

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I’ll just take notes on paper with these kinds of classes I guess. I can imagine that I’ll be thrown off when a teacher includes a chart in a lecture class though. Not sure what I would do. Probably bust out paper and write it down there and then spend time making the chart later when I have time.</p>

<p>Thanks for the replies all.</p>

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<p>For those who have OneNote, is it worth the purchase?</p>

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<p>Mine came bundled with my Word program. I did that Ultimate Deal thing through Microsoft.</p>

<p>Yea it is worth it because you can domore than take class noted with that program. </p>

<p>BTW Word 2007 so OneNote 2007 and you can record lectures with that as well as long as you have a mic.</p>

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<p>Hard? I don’t think so - it’s a very simple editor with WYSIWYG formatting. Under the hood, it’s all HTML, so you can fix anything that gets screwed up. Give it a shot and see.</p>

<p>Safe? It’s fully open source and I use it myself. I’ve never tried the Windows version, but there is no reason to believe it is malicious. You can get that [url=<a href=“Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.”>Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.]here[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>I think it depends on the class. I have a tablet laptop so making graphs and things isn’t really a problem, but it does have its downsides. For one thing, it makes it hard to look at notes fast. All this scrolling, etc…</p>

<p>It really helped when my law professor went through her slides super fast, and I type quickly so it was all good. But I didn’t bring my laptop to my Calculus class, and now I kind of regret having used my laptop for microeconomics. :s</p>