paper vs electronic notes

[artist27]

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I know this obviously depends on each individual, but while at my second look almost all students said an ipad pro/ similar tablet is a must. They said the amount of paper notes you'd have is insane and close to impossible to keep track of and carry around. However, writing on an ipad just seems annoying to me even even with a nice fancy pen. I have also been told that typing notes is not a good idea either because there are too many structures/pics that need to be drawn.

So is paper notes completely not realistic? The idea of staring at a screen for all my studying also does not seem fun. So if you are a med student which do you use and why?

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Definitely came into this thread expecting a poll on EMR.

 

[FlavivirusProtease]

I got an iPad Pro. I've heard it's really nice to have one note and be able to directly annotate the powerpoints. I guess you could do that by printing out the powerpoints and drawing on them, but that's a lot of work and harder to keep organized.

I definitely think laptop ranks last, because it's been demonstrated that actually writing your notes is better for memory than typing them out.

 

[Gilakend]

I use OneNote on my laptop. Probably one of the best choices I made. However, not ideal for classes such as orgo where you'll be drawing a lot unless you have a quality stylus. However for "bio style" classes that is mainly just memorizing I love it. Plus instead of looking through 10 packets of notes you can just use the search function which can honestly save crazy amounts of time.

 

[dr_kateb]

#nonotes club

 

[ebno]

I use a Surface Pro, I don't know about iPads but the Surface has a kickstand you can lower to have it at a nice angle to write. I use OneNote on it which syncs across devices. Works out pretty well for me.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I have OneNote and Evernote and a nice iPad with a good stylus. I use none of them for notetaking. I follow along on the slides and write important notes in my notebook using the Cornell method. I also draw a lot of pictures since I am a visual and kinetic learner. Works great for me.

 

[FlavivirusProtease]

I have OneNote and Evernote and a nice iPad with a good stylus. I use none of them for notetaking. I follow along on the slides and write important notes in my notebook using the Cornell method. I also draw a lot of pictures since I am a visual and kinetic learner. Works great for me.

How do you keep up with the lecture using Cornell notes? I specifically remember them taking a bunch of time to write.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

How do you keep up with the lecture using Cornell notes? I specifically remember them taking a bunch of time to write.

When we get to a topic, I write a keyword in the margin to mark it. Then I just write important stuff in the main body. I actually don’t do the summary at the bottom. I did for half the semester last semester, but I found that there wasn’t much difference between doing it and not doing it other than it requiring more time, so I stopped. All our classes have slides with the important info, so I can use the notes just for important supplemental stuff or to put things in context. It works well for me.