College note-taking

Please tell me there's a better program to use than this piece of shit, one that actually has basic features like text wrapping, and one that doesn't reset your line spacing options every time you start a new fucking header

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it's note taking... who cares how it looks?

it's the best note taking app ever.

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gento

Not OP same issue need a good editor
Can't stand (((their))) piece of shit software

>app
>best
>reddit spacing
Hi pajeet! Sorry, but you'll have to let your manager know that your shilling attempt didn't work, I still think it's a piece of shit. Looks like you won't be getting those 2 cents

Microsoft Word
Google Docs
Notepad
Vi
Emacs
Gedit
Or God forbid

unfortunately there's not, I've been down that road.

I used to like evernote, but those faggots are asking too much money for it now

>God forbid
handwritten notes have a greater learning effect.
scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/

pen + paper or as i like to call it : pen/paper
or just org-mode

Anons, do you have simple notepad 4 Android that allows you to have 'send to' functionality and option to save txt files in specific directory. I am too tired with all this Evernote and one note shit

>God forbid
Not him but that was a "/s" God forbid

>not using OneNote to take handwritten notes on a tablet PC

just use an image editor for christ's sake, that's if you need images. otherwise use notepad, not even notepad++ just regular notepad. the fact that onenote even exists is absurd

Pen and fucking paper

Stop the technology worship, neomaniac.

based

>not using a cheap laptop with a 50€ second hand Wacom Intuos to take handwritten notes in OneNote

fuck off patrician

For math-related subjects, absolutely. Formulas, graphs, etc. are all way easier to write by hand.
For humanities or anything that requires words only, however, just use a text editor. I myself use Vim and plain text files, notepad is more than enough if you're on windoze.
Ever wondered why it's called notepad?

Emacs makes all computing simple

I just write plain text files with Emacs and print them out when I get home. No cloud shit or anything.

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Or, here's a thought, or.. You use the Office version of OneNote which isn't plebian tier.

OneNote is excellent, so long as you use the real version.

Just use a plain text file. If you need bold titles and bullshit like that, then use wordpad and save as rtf. No need to install any bullshit program just for taking notes.

just do this instead of being trendy

> being trendy
I've been doing that since 2005 m8

demographics say otherwise. i think youre buying into the sleek minimalist plastic a little bit too much there bud. but what do i know?

>For math-related subjects, absolutely. Formulas, graphs, etc. are all way easier to write by hand.

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Stop taking notes, instead, use the time to think and understand the topics, nowadays most profs post their notes anyways, borrow from a friend if you have to.

don't pretend you don't get it. normal human beings didn't know or care about stylus pens or tablet computers for general usage 12 years ago. now there are poorly built, extremely fragile overpriced hybrid tablets everywhere, and people are being told they're useful or at least that they can use them to show off. everyone i've ever seen using one has been a slow worker, it's impossible for me to believe that people using them don't see it as some kind of status symbol. unless youre an artist or youre using your machine exclusively for taking notes, it's just too much for me to even understand. if you've been using one since 2005 though i'm sure you know exactly what to use, and more the power to you.

Unironically this. Take the time you would spend writing the notes to think of smart questions to ask.

>tfw doing engineering where it's a mix of formulas and text

I am using the office version, I just couldn't find a PNG version of the logo. It still lacks basic features such as text wrapping. It's shit.

I mean.. I get computers are hard and stuff...

Absolutely supports textwrap.

This. Enotes are a shit meme. Paper, pencil, and organizer are the apex of note taking tech.

OH SHIT.. Accidentally shared my Paella recipe.

Fucking nice though. Should try it some time. Tasty as fuck, complete panty peeler.

Around an image

I use vim and write in markdown syntax, then convert to pdf using pandoc. Markdown is super fast markup language. Pdf is imo best format for long term viability.

I didn't expect that innocuous suggestion to trigger somebody, holy autism.

>fatass detected

notepad++ with some code syntax, despite it being just text. It's useful for adding comment lines to make sections stand out, etc.

>He still takes notes in current_year
This, at my uni you can access every courses on their website in a beautiful LaTeX porn pdf and they give the the paper version if you are interested.
pic related is an extract of one of the pdf.

Yeah, but it's literally designed to do exactly the opposite of that. If you want that functionality, use word.

OneNote is intended to be a clip style book. You're basically complaining that it's really fucking hard to eat your soup with a fork. Pick a tool designed for automated layout.

Or, embed a Word document in a OneNote page and edit it in Word.

I mean you're not wrong. Your mother's a chubby chaser and feeds me a cookie every time I blow a load on her face. That's a lot of cookies.

unless youre leonardo divinchi or tony stark youre wasting your time man. thats the notion of a tablet computer: that your work looks good enough to actually warrant using one

Notepad

Wrapping text around an image is a simple fucking feature and should be in all office programs. I like OneNote's organisational features, Word is too bloated for simple note taking.

What version of onenote are you using? The default Win10 one is absolute dogshit compared to the Office 16 version.
Source: take notes on my surface

Whinging about it doesn't change that it's not the point of the software.

It's a simple feature that Microsoft have implemented already, and can share between apps really easily given the way they designed their libraries.

Issue is you really can't have it both ways. You can't have free-flowing layouts AND structured layouts in the same workspace. There was a document layout that enabled structured note taking, but it got shat on by all the test groups as being "just Word".

Literally all they have to do is fix the formatting, line spacing and text wrapping and it'd be 10/10
As it stands it's 6.5

>not a fountain pen

It's not a fix, it's a feature request.

Your use case is in the minority. Picture related is how users use OneNote.

This. I never understood why everyone in college was like
>hurr durr i didnt take good notes i'm fucked
>pls can you lend me your notes pls
>hurr durr the professor goes too fast i cant write notes fast enough
You have the textbook. You (usually) have the official course notes. Use those to study at home and actually listen to the professor during class. I did not take notes at all in my last two years and still did well.

>all that wasted space to the right of the text where the image could fit
>actual text starts halfway down the fucking page because of this
Yeah, definitely nothing wrong there microshill

Yeah, I know what you mean.

I read too read those adult magazines for the articles, not the pictures..

>everyone who uses onenote is using it for cooking recipes
Some people are actually doing things where it'd be useful to have a diagram next to the text you moron

> I too read those adult magazines for the articles, not the pictures..
One thing I will grant you though. Microsoft's Android keyboard blows goats..

Yeah, all my content like that I don't want to share with you cunts you inbred hick.

There are fuck all situations where in an inline/above the text diagram wouldn't achieve the same outcome as what you're autistically screaming about like a pack of mongoloid child rapists.

I'm a IT tech studying a Juris Doctor (law degree). There's a former system administrator in my cohort.

I shit you not we are the only 2 that use pen and paper in a 150 person lecture.

paper notes

yes, typing on a computer is faster. that's not a good thing. when you're taking notes on paper you're forced to summarize content on the fly. you have to think about the material as you're writing so that you write down the most important pieces of information. that aids recall.

if you take notes on a laptop, especially for humanities, you can basically take exact dictation of what the lecturer says without thinking about the material at all. you're going to forget the material in thirty seconds.

This, if you actually wanna learn

>not using a rocketbook so you can write your notes then use your phone to upload them so you can easily sort them and OCR the pdfs so they are searchable.
It's the best of both worlds!

This is what I did. I'd write notes to paper and scan them into OneNote to make them searchable. Got to love handwriting OCR in images in OneNote.

I have all my masters study in OneNote that way.

>Please tell me there's a better program to use than this piece of shit
Piece of paper and a pencil.

No this I've never taken notes and have always performed at the top of my classes.

On this note is there anything that does OCR that isn't OneNote?

yeah OCR is friggate perfect if you live having boats that hive no errors.

t. women’s studies major

How dare you speak Navy at me. Work on your penmanship.

>taking notes
>ever
Sad brainlets.

there's cracks for ABBYY FineReader floating around

>t. Brainlet

I still have all my paper notebooks from college, can you recall your information like that? No

Not that I know of, but someone suggested you can do OCR with PDF files.

Naval gazer..

This. If you're not a brainlet who can type at least 60wpm then you will type more information than you can retain. Writing forces you to retain information in your short term memory longer, and the physical act of writing reinforces that piece of information you are writing, making retention of that information better and stronger.

>most profs post their notes anyway
All saved and searchable from even my phone, if I ever need them.

Having access to the information isn’t the same as learning it you brainlet

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Kek

I learned it in class retard. I've never had to look at notes more than once.

This. If you think taking notes is for storing information you are an absolute brainlet. Note taking is a mental exercise for retention and recall.

Absolutely this, I don't even look over my lecture notes when revising for exams.

Sounds like you really challenged yourself. Regardless, this is absolute shit advice for anyone actually trying to be a good student

You learn by doing, notes are for rote memorization.

Just use classic paper, electronic notes are crap. They are slower and more complex, tend to be broken and you'll always be distorted by them.

The only maybe useful usage of electronic notes are if they are taken as notes in a large pdf an that works also with a usual laptop.

There may be some value in transcribing hand written notes to a digital medium, if only for the repetitive nature of the material

OneNote on my x230t with a Wacom digitizer works pretty well

>You learn by doing, notes are for rote memorization.
>by doing
>Writing forces you to retain information in your short term memory longer, and the physical act of writing reinforces that piece of information you are writing, making retention of that information better and stronger.
Unless you're a brainlet who thinks that note taking = verbatim reproduction.
Proper note taking goes
>listening
>understanding
>processing
>rewording
>writing
All in a span of a few seconds so that you don't miss the next batch of information. Even if you're an absolute brainlet, do this enough and eventually you'll stop being an absolute brainlet and just be a regular brainlet who will have a better capacity for quick comprehension and retention.

I'm starting my PhD next week. Pen and paper carried me without a hitch throughout my bachelor's and master's.

Notes are not doing.

>thinks the process of note taking is just writing down information
>explanation is literally on the second half of the post
>he thinks "take note" is the same as "take a dictation"
>t.brainlet

Writing with pen and paper requires much more cognitive ability than hammering away on a keyboard

the key is to find a balance between writing notes and direct memorization. Many students focus too much on making beautiful notes and waste time being overly fastidious. You definitely need to take notes to learn most things they teach in school, but you have to keep in mind that the notes should primarily be a learning tool, and not a book that you keep in your bag for looking at later. If the notes are really good, you'll get bored when you re-read them because you remember everything.

> make a note of this
Vs
> see how I did this

I guess I'm just better at learning.

In my experience only brainlets take notes at all

Regarding Emacs - org mode actually looks like a viable option (I took all my notes in MS word), but the thing I would miss out of the box is equation editing and image embedding (C-c C-v into word was always comfortable). Does org mode have some equation mode like mathtype or lyx's equation editor?
I used to do all of that in mathtype, and graphs I produced through matlab or wolframalpha
If your uni provides those consider writing your own comments on the paper or the pdf. it helps. Any Linux programs can handle note writing on a pdf?

fuck off successfag

my notes are terrible for use by anybody but me. They're literally words and phrases and arrows that trigger recall only for me. My notes aren't information repositories, they're just there to reinforce what's already in my head.
>Many students focus too much on making beautiful notes and waste time being overly fastidious.
This was true in my experience a decade ago and I believe this is still a thing today
Just give up.

> Just give up.
I know when to walk away. Stay mad brainlet.