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I went paperless in college. My method is Notepad++ with either a cloud storage solution, or a shared network drive. I take my laptop to all meetings and take
by stephengillie 11y ago
I went paperless in college.
My method is Notepad++ with either a cloud storage solution, or a shared network drive. I take my laptop to all meetings and take what notes I need, then store those in my cloud/network storage. (In certain situations, I'll use my phone instead of my laptop)
I use Excel heavily, and it's a great tool for many uses - managing and manipulating lists of servers and data quickly, better grid formatting than Word/Outlook, script generation automation (using VBA to create Powershell scripts), and other uses. But it's a terrible note-taking platform to me.
I've had a love-hate relationship with OneNote. It works best for me from within Sharepoint. Others make much better use of the tool than I do, and hopefully you'll be able to do so too.
- shas3 11y agoI have considered going paperless in lectures/etc., but I'm hesitant because of research that shows typing leads to less retention than writing, even in the absence of distractions [1]. This also conforms with my own experience with written notes and typed notes. [1] Meuller, Oppenheimer, "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking," Psychological Science, 2014 http://zetesis.org/wp1/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MuellerOppenheimer.PS_.20140423.1-10.pdf http://zetesis.org/wp1/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MuellerOpp...