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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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My trials...Submitted by ScottE22 on October 4, 2007 - 2:13pm.
I'm a doctoral student and recently went through a similar task -- trying to determine what works best. By best, of course, I mean simplest and easy to use FOR YOU. I have DevonThink, but I've never used it. I've heard great things and it seems really powerful, but for the process of notetaking I'm not sure it's the simplest system. Having said that, I really like OmniOutliner and VooDoo Pad. I have one class that requires frequent, short assignments to be sent to the prof via email. I always do these in VooDoo Pad and then copy & paste into email. I could see using VooDoo Pad alone and leaving out OmniOutliner altogether, but I just really like all of the Omni products' ease of use. Good luck! Here is a thread that I started about a similar issue... » POSTED IN:
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