When I’m on the research binge, I need to be able to highlight certain things or draw out my thoughts. I could easily “print” my family group sheets, pedigree charts, website search results, etc to my notebook by selecting “Microsoft OneNote” as my printer. “Print” stuff from websites and put it in my notebook with my other notes.It was awesome.īut what do my class notes have anything to do with genealogy? Well I do pretty much the exact same things with my class notes that I do with my class notes. I could recreate any drawings my professors made on the board by using the pen feature. Or I could make my cursor a pen to circle things, draw lines to similar concepts, etc. I could then use the highlighter feature to make my cursor into a highlighter and highlight any important features. I loved how I could download handouts and “print” them to my notebooks. Come term paper time, it was super easy to put all of my notes on a certain topic together by just searching all of my notes for a particular key word or phrase. Depending on the class, I created a new note for each class meeting or for each major topic. I created one notebook for the semester and sections for each of my classes. You can easily create different notebooks with sections (just like a binder with tabbed dividers) and then put notes into sections. Since I had just installed Microsoft Office 2007, I decided to check out Microsoft OneNote. So I started looking at different note-taking programs for the semester. Half way through the lecture, my hand was tired and my handwriting was nearly impossible to read. The majority of my professors wanted to fit a bazillion concepts into one lecture and did so by speaking a thousand miles a second. When school started last semester, I realized I had to find a better way to keep my notes organized. But the mobile access thing just isn’t as important to a non-smart-phone-carrying person like me. If I had had a smart phone like a Blackberry or iPhone, I probably wouldn’t have given up so quickly because the fact that you can edit and view your files from your mobile devices is pretty amazing and crucial if you are a constantly-on-the-go sort of a person. After a few weeks, I gave up and moved on. I felt that the interface wasn’t as intuitive as I would have liked and I got confused a few times. I was attracted to Evernote because I’ve seen so many blog posts written about it how easy it is to use, very mobile, syncs with the web – the list of cool features was pretty long. I am a note-taking fanatic – between school, genealogy, church, and all of the other gazillion things I am involved in, I need to be able to take detailed notes quickly and easily.Ī year or two ago, I played around with Evernote but just didn’t fall in love with it. In the last month I’ve been playing around with Evernote and OneNote, two different note-taking programs.
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