Evernote is an app/program I recommend to students and researchers to help organize their educational and professional lives. Rather than say the same thing over and over again, I decided to create separate tip pages for student and educators. Enjoy!
Evernote for Students
First, watch the video linked below, then come back for specifics!
Did you watch Clarissa's video? Good. Then you know that Evernote is a program that allows you to capture lectures, reading notes, pictures, PowerPoints, and pretty much any media or text an instructor flings at you.
Most importantly, it keeps all that info organized and easily searchable. That's a must-have around exam and research paper time. Evernote works on all devices and also reads handwritten notes. Nice, right?
Most importantly, it keeps all that info organized and easily searchable. That's a must-have around exam and research paper time. Evernote works on all devices and also reads handwritten notes. Nice, right?
My suggestions on how to organize Evernote:
TEMPLATE:
Notetaking template for my students (A personal gift from me to you)
DOWNLOAD
Evernote.com
Try to save all your templates (school, work, business) in a Template notebook. When each class starts, make a copy of the template, save it to your class notebook and start typing in that for the day/lecture.
Evernote offers three tiers of service. Go with the Basic/Free. Unless you're taking the time to upload all previous work (and you might), I can't see you needing more than 60MG. That 60 MG limit only counts when uploading and it resets each month. You can have 3 gigs of data in a free account, so long as you uploaded it bit by bit. See what I did there?
- 3 Major Notebook Stacks (Personal, Work, School)
- The first two stacks, you're on your own. For the School Stack, divide it into class notebooks: HIS 111, ENG 201, MTH 212, and so on. You may also want to create a Portfolio Notebook to save information and work that can be used for internships, jobs or other institutions. I've included some templates below to make this a whole lot easier.
- Inside of each notebook, consider doing one note per day OR one note per unit. For instance, my unit on Absolutism will take a about a week and a half to get through. Decide if you want all of these notes together or split up by day. Alternatively, you can add in a line or symbol to indicate a split in the lecture.
- Make a friend. Fast. If you miss class, beg them to share their notes for that day. This can be easily done with a temporary sharing link, like this one. Then you can click, "save to Evernote," and immediately have the work you missed.
TEMPLATE:
Notetaking template for my students (A personal gift from me to you)
DOWNLOAD
Evernote.com
Try to save all your templates (school, work, business) in a Template notebook. When each class starts, make a copy of the template, save it to your class notebook and start typing in that for the day/lecture.
Evernote offers three tiers of service. Go with the Basic/Free. Unless you're taking the time to upload all previous work (and you might), I can't see you needing more than 60MG. That 60 MG limit only counts when uploading and it resets each month. You can have 3 gigs of data in a free account, so long as you uploaded it bit by bit. See what I did there?