Through my time at University I explored the ins-and-outs of various applications, and in my opinion, these are three most effective applications I’ve found to help me with the two most important aspects of my classes: note-taking and readings. I used OneNote for over a year and a half to take notes for my lectures, primarily from sophomore to junior year. While many study blogs herald the importance of handwritten notes to help with memory, I found that if I attempted to handwrite my notes I would focus too much on making my lecture notes pretty instead of what the professor was saying. And when your teachers talk a mile per minute, it’s nearly impossible to ensure you have all the relevant information if you’re writing in your notebook. Plus, handwritten notes take away the possibility of adding clarifications throughout the document after the lecture is over, which I tend to do as I do my reading assignments. OneNote is fantastic because it has so many levels of organization that comes with the familiarity of Microsoft Word formatting: you have notebooks, section groups, sections, pages, and page groups, all of which allow you to effectively organize any class.
I had a notebook for my courses, my research and background guides for my extracurriculars, and at one point I had a notebook for general to do lists. In my courses notebook I had section groups organized by semester, sections organized by courses, and pages organized by class lecture days.
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