06-25-2017, 01:26 PM | #1 |
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Does note taking with a tablet make you more productive?
Aside from portability, does note taking with a tablet make you more productive especially if you are a student or an office worker? Or does it have its own problems that you wouldn't have with a traditional pen and paper?
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06-25-2017, 01:50 PM | #2 |
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Well, doodling, is a lot more difficult with a tablet. This seems silly, but the mindless hand activity helps me absorb the information presented, and sometimes the doodles are actually a part of my note taking. With a keyboard, i find that I'm so busy trying to 'capture' words and ideas that I don't have time to actually make the information my own.
I'd rather type up the contents of my notes after the meeting or class situation. |
06-25-2017, 09:30 PM | #3 |
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Both methods have their own problems, but both should make you more productive all other things being equal.
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06-26-2017, 12:10 PM | #4 |
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Depends on the note-taking software. If your software offers an email option, you can take notes, email them to yourself, and copy them to a word processing program for final editing.
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06-27-2017, 03:31 AM | #5 |
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I can type far faster than I can write by hand, even on the on-screen keyboard of a tablet. When I'm doing serious note-taking on my iPad, though (as I do, for example, when I take notes at the lectures of my local Egyptology society) I use an external Bluetooth keyboard.
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06-27-2017, 08:46 PM | #6 |
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I have actually timed myself taking notes and I can write faster on my phone or tablet with a swipe keyboard than I can hand write.
As a bonus, I can also actually read my notes when they aren't in my own handwriting... Another benefit with digital notes is they are instantly searchable and sharable. I put all my notes in OneNote so I can access them from any device. |
06-27-2017, 09:04 PM | #7 |
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The only time I take notes on a regular basis is in church. I'm pretty fast with a sharp pencil and piece of paper. I'd be much slower using an onscreen keyboard, even on my iPad Pro. With a regular physical keyboard I'd probably be pretty fast, but that's not convenient in a quiet church setting.
My note taking ability is also effected by the person who is speaking. The more organized the speaker, the better my notes. I believe I remember what I've written down also, which isn't so true when I type. |
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It was bad enough that I had to go to meetings which droned on and on and on, without having to take notes by hand and then copy those to where they needed to be. |
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06-29-2017, 01:51 AM | #9 |
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I have a couple of Android tablets and an Android phone that's no longer in service. I find it convenient to use the voice-to-text feature (click the microphone icon on the keyboard) to record notes on the go that can be imported into text editors and word processors. This is especially convenient with the old cell phone, since it can easily be carried in my pocket.
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06-29-2017, 03:50 PM | #10 |
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Depends a great deal on the tablet and pen too. A Surface pro or a Yoga or any top end tablet with an N-trig or Wacom digitizer, using an active stylus pen with pressure sensitivity, is a million miles away from whatever you get on a low-end tablet using a capacitive pen. One is pretty indistinguishable from writing on paper, once you get the hang of it, except you get instant ocr and all the benefits of online note-taking tools, like syncing your notes to audio/video recordings etc. The other is like taking your notes using a stick in wet sand.
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