Apple Notes offers a native Mac app, Apple's signature intuitive interface, with extensive writing tools and attachment options. Google Keep allows for easy note organization with background colors ...

These open-source apps offer robust free options ...

This article was updated on October 10, 2023, with additional contributions by Mars Girolimon. How you take notes can affect how much information you’re able to recall. You could make reviewing course ...

Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...

Guest Blog Post by Carl Pletsch, Ph.D. Do your students take notes? Whether students take notes in class or not may be important. The process of note-taking may (a) have an impact on student learning, ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

The primary purpose of note taking is to encourage active learning and to prepare study materials for exams. Developing note taking skills should help you organize information into an understandable ...

Specifically, I like to capture ideas about things I’d like to remember, do or write. And I’m sure you do, too. If I’m sitting in front of my laptop, I’ll just type these notes into Google Keep.