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Undergraduate note taking applications
snozle | Aug 23 2007
I'm about to start my undergraduate career and I'm at a loss when it comes to a solid note taking application. I use OmniOutliner Pro all the time for various tasks and love it, but I'm not sure how it would do for a full fledged note taking application. I find VoodooPad intriguing because of it's inherent ability to crossreference wiki style. This would probably help me immensely because I tend to have a ton of random thoughts/ideas and have poor organizational-fu. However, I have doubts about it's scalability. Will it become cumbersome when I add a lot of notes? I've briefly looked at Journler and DevonThink also and find them both to be a little overkill for my needs. I use quicksilver for file tagging and smartfolders to organize my files and I don't really need a program to do that for me. Finally, I'm a computer science and Japanese double major. Should I keep my notes separate, or even use two separate programs? Basically what I'm asking for are some recommendations for note-taking applications that would fit my situation (double major, poor organizational skills, tendency to explore many interesting subjects on my own). I need a repository for all of my thoughts and notes but it has to be good for inputting data also, not just for organization and searching. Any tips not related to software recommendations would also be welcome. Thanks. 8 Comments
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I think it really...Submitted by tychoish on August 30, 2007 - 8:23pm.
I think it really depends a lot on the kinds of classes you're in and the way you take notes on that information. I've started to think that it makes more sense to *avoid* using separate files to organize information, rather than to divide your notes into lots of files. Develop some sort of mark up and have longer files: let search do the work for you. Over-thinking things, particularly in the note taking stage can really drag you down. It might be worhtwhile to see how you take notes by hand, and figuring out what works for you best based on that.... cheers, » POSTED IN:
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