Taking Notes on Laptops

[Ejdeha]

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Zim - a desktop wiki</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.

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

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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.

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

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“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.

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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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.

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>