Hiya everyone! As a massive ex-iPad-notetaking fan, I have a lot of notes I made for medicine - if you would like to download the PDFs (for free) check them out (link below) - there's one for Immunology and one for Anatomy. I'm really not sure why so many people have asked me for them, there's much better resources out there! But I do really hope they help 💙 www.elizabethfilips.com/studynotes
OMG These are amazing notes I just checked them!! U are the best. This is the first video of u that I've watched and I'm gonna subscribe u right now. Thanks a lot
For a lot of science-heavy courses, I think having the ability to take notes free-handedly is just irreplaceable. Writing stuff down also helps with recall.
Yes, and even better if you delay it and/or do it in the form of mindmaps or visuals rather than text as it activates other parts of your brain allowing you to consolidate more and possibly understand it at an initially deeper level. Which thus lessens the amount of spaced repetitions (and time) you’ll have to do to achieve the same level of retention as it were otherwise!
As a physics major I wouldn’t even consider taking notes on a laptop, it would just be impossible, my notes are more formulas and equations than actual words. I feel like every note-taking/study tips video I come across are from people who study medicine/chemistry/biology lol, math-based courses are on a totally different level and so different, would like to see more variety on RUclips
We have many calculations, graphs, dervivations etc in medicine, but our professors, who almost always are also practicing doctors besides being educators and researchers, they expect us to understand all derivations, mathematical equations and relations, graphs etc in our free time. You will never see a medical professor deriving, integrating, differentiating a mathematical equation/relation on the blackboard, at most they will show us some graphs and conclusions of the recent studies and their biostatistical weaknesses. Our classes are strictly anecdotes and their experiences to impress upon broader concepts of the topic. Minutia are already in the books, but these anecdotes and experiences aren't. And still there's always out of time to go through all the relevant points. We hardly have lectures, these are mostly discussions and students attending them are supposed to come prepared with firm grasp on current practices, mathematics and statistics of the topic that will be discussed. So even though i hate to admit it but medical education in the time of pandemic, is much more effective with screen shots, and only writing down take home points. And after the second year of medical school, it's the students who have to take classes and seminars besides their ward and emergency duties, after which they will be grilled by the expert panel. Medical education is very different from arts, engineering, law, accountancy, basic sciences like physics, chemistry and maths. Capturing their experiences and findings are much more important so screenshots of graphs and case photos help, handwriting very inefficient way of capturing information and data, more so if it is coming too fast, it's more useful as a tool to digest it and then organize it as knowledge, by linking blocks of recorded information with understood concepts.
I’m at the point where I end up writing latex code (accidentally) on my test papers. And it’s not a big hassle for me personally given the advantages of digital notes and flash cards
As a medical student I couldn't imagine not using an iPad. I completely stopped using a laptop. You just can't draw a quick chemical structures or type a biophysics formulas on a laptop.
How many students actually need to hand write their notes? You can also just buy a cheap drawing tablet to use with your laptop for that anyway. I’ve seen so many students justify purchasing iPad pros talking about the benefit of handwriting over typing and saving paper when really the benefits of handwriting are minimal or can be achieved through better active studying methods which then leaves the saving paper argument that can easily be achieved by typing notes on a computer. That’s not even getting into how many of them still take notes and complete worksheets on paper.
@@winnief3661 I’m a Professor at a Medical School. Pretty much every student uses an iPad. It’s way more convenient for highlighting over papers or presentations, taking quick notes anywhere and having everything organized. I know most of them also have computers because I see them. But the majority of the time, they prefer to use their iPads. I was a student a few years ago and my iPad was a lifesaver.
I’m a 3rd year med student in Dublin and I actually had the opposite experience. I started off typing my notes at the bottom of the lecture PowerPoint but that wasn’t really an efficient way for me to study. My school always uploads the actual lecture slides so personally I found it a lot easier to import the slides to notability and just write my notes directly on the slides to review before exams. I think I just learn better that way so that’s what worked for me but I understand how typing would be better in your situation.
have been using this method as well. I will have the powerpoints already downloaded and as professor is going through the lecture I annotate especially when professor emphasizes a subject. I also add blank powerpoints underneath some for written examples or further clarification for myself. Definitely recommend this method it's so helpful and much easier with a tablet and electronic pencil.
i think ipad for taking notes is perfect for people who don't have a final written examination. sadly all of my courses did this year, and 2nd year courses seem to all have written exams too. I'm gonna stick with the old $2 98 page notebook and the $1 ballpoint pens for taking notes and solving problems & questions xD
Honestly, I think it depends on which program you are in. I would still use an Ipad. Our teachers post the slides in advance on the school website. I download them before the lecture and take notes directly on them. Plus there is a lot of graphs and problem-solving in my program (engineering), which is easier to do on an Ipad.
And when I went to theatre school the iPad was so useful. You'd get scripts with minimal notice and I never had to sprint to the library to print like everyone else. And I could annotate and highlight right away, this was awhile ago with the iPad 2.
Yes exactly for non medical students its about practice and solving and using numbers and variables by typing or even for computer science where maths is a must which again needs to be solved
The funny thing is that I can do most things you mentioned with my iPad as well. Buying a MacBook wasn’t in my price range so I got an iPad and a Keyboard. I use notion on my iPad to take notes of the books I’m reading and I’m using GoodNotes for the lecture notes. I do have to say that I didn’t try it while having online school, but most of the specific things you mentioned are possible in GoodNotes. You can use the lasso tool to copy or move everything around, and you can open two documents in a split screen view. Sure, opening multiple tabs while having a smaller screen isn’t as easy, but I hope we won’t have online lectures for ever. In class, I usually have GoodNotes Open and if I have to look things up, I just quickly open google. This is not meant to be hate or anything. I just wanted to mention that some things are still possible if you have an iPad and most of these reasons only really apply if you have a laptop or computer.
@@molkala2084 I have the Ipad 8. generation. But I should mention that I actually did get a macbook since then. I still use my Ipad in school to write notes, but I do use my macbook for most of the stuff that involves typing.
I have been experimenting with this and it make sense there is no need of handwriting notes unless u are doing math !! The point is active recall sorts everything out perfectly!!
I've had the opposite experience as a medical student. I think, it depends upon from person to person. I owned a laptop in the 1st year of medicine, it was timetaking for me to switch it on and off everytime and even the charging process seemed difficult. Couldn't read while falling asleep, couldn't take it to places. With Ipad I use split screen when I need to multitask (video lectures on one side, and collanotes on the otherside mainly in landscape view) while using collanotes, I import pdfs/books/notes and add points I think is relevant. Moreover diagrams are much better with the apple pencil.
PRO TIP for taking a screenshot on mac : Press the control button in addition to the shift+cmd+4 combination and your screenshot will be COPIED as if you copied a text and then you can simply paste it! ;) makes the whole process much smoother and with less friction. good luck!
To some extent I agree with you; however, if you're reviewing documents such as PDFs, a tablet with a pen is much more comfortable. Using a pen just releases the stress.
Came to this late. Thanks so much for this truth. There's such a number of youtubers who make one think that without an ipad and goodnotes/notablity you are missing out on academic achievement. This makes so much sense. Gratitude for putting this out there
All of this can be done on an I pad and u have that option of writing stuff down just in case you need to ! Making diagrams and other things might take lesser time when done by hand !
There are a lot of medical students here on youtube who advocate not taking notes at all..many put more energy into capturing key items into flashcards and some reformulate concepts into more visual models like mind maps etc. I agree with many here that it probably "depends"...on the are of study, personal style etc. However, you do bring up some interesting points. One issue I have always had is the lack of legibility of my own handwriting (self encrypted HA). I do believe that graphical summary and markup can be helpful.
This is definitely personal to the way a particular person learns. There is not an end all, be all method that will work for everyone. Writing is actually how I learn, so for me the iPad has been extremely helpful, but I know others who prefer other ways of absorbing class material.
I have both a Macbook and an iPad and their interconnectivity is incredibly useful. I use my iPad for notes during and after my lectures whilst I use my Macbook for homework and research. The feel of a laptop whilst typing up documents and making powerpoints isn’t the same if I were to be using a magic keyboard due to the ergonomics. Although both are portable and I take on the go all, theres a difference between the two if I were to take them out of my backpack.
Yes, you can even just immediately share the screenshot to the note-taking app or wherever. It could be a matter of not knowing all the shortcuts and features of an iPad. Because I didn’t hear her mention anything that couldn’t also be done on an iPad.
Honestly, I disagree! As a biology major who used the notebook/laptop combo for my first 3 years and then an iPad for my 4th year, I found using an iPad to be much more helpful and intuitive in regards to taking notes. Being able to download lecture slides in advance and mark them up saved me SO much writing/typing time. Also, taking notes on a laptop when you're taking classes that involve math/formulas/reactions/etc. is incredibly difficult. I used GoodNotes on my iPad and found it much easier to navigate than any note-taking app on my laptop.
I agree with every point you said. I was a religious iPad user for the first four years of my university and switched to laptop only in medical school. It’s been so much more better to put my notes into anki cards immediately after lecture, rather than having to go through so many hoops with an iPad
I'd like to point out that notetaking varies depending on major. Us engineering majors need a stylus or pen way more than other majors that don't need to do math, diagrams, tables, etc. on the fly. I'm not sure the iPad is worth the money, but an engineer definitely won't take as effective notes purely by typing.
This is so strange to me being born and brought up in India. I can't really imagine taking notes on any sort of electronic device, it has to be pen and paper. It's a much more deeper connection to me immediately to write down something, it carves in my memory better. How do you write exams? Those are also on Mac or PC? Without practice, the writing would be very slow and handwriting would be so bad as well.
Agree! Recently, I am watching this trend of people (who can afford iPad) taking notes on iPads and I just think to myself "Is this some kind of western influence to take notes on electronic devices?" when clearly our school system does not encourage electronic devices. The schools outside India permit these devices in class.
@@artbyvru I am from Spain and we also take notes on paper, with really few exceptions. I went to school in the UK and back then everybody took notes on paper too, I think it’s more of a university thing in the UK :)
@@artbyvru If they're still physically writing down the notes (something you can do on the iPad), what difference does it make if they're taking them on a tablet vs a piece of paper besides how it feels? It even saves a lot of paper. Problems arise mainly when you are trying to exclusively type your notes instead of writing them by hand. If your school wouldn't permit such a device, I think that is a problem. Not a thing to be proud of.
@@matthewdavis9437 Well by your name I presume you don't live in India so cleaely you don't know the system here. We don't have any electronic devices permitted in school and because the cost of iPad is insanely high as per the exchange rate here it is not something everyone can afford. So taking notes on paper in the school but then buying an iPad just because you saw that online and rewriting the already handwritten notes on the iPad when you get home is nonsensical. Also to clarify I'm talking about school. I topped my classes in school so I know that there is no need for excessive organisation of notes. We have different physical notebooks nd they are more than enough - if that's your argument. In college this may be different. P. S. I am not judging if having electronic devices are a problem or not. Just stating that it is not mandatory and not needed at all. Having devices in school would be a problem for me. Students need to concentrate in school and not check their phones every 5 minutes.
As a North American student who used to write notes only by hand, the main advantage to having an electronic note-taking device is that almost all my teachers gave pdfs for each lesson. These pdfs are often incredibly long (75+ pages) and are difficult and wastful to print out. Also, with an iPad I would have ended up saving so much more time and energy actively listening in class instead of franctically recopying what was already written in the pdf without fully understanding it. I definitely would have had a much easier time in my organic chemistry class (and gotten a better grade) if I used a tablet. So many of you in the comments are right, this is a result of western influence, and it is a financial privilege to be able to consider that note-taking option. Oh and the writing slowly on paper comment made me laugh bc most ppl still write by hand, just on a screen. I've rarely seen students type down their notes on a laptop or got really annoyed by the typing sounds during the rare times they did :P
I have been using my laptop as principal note maker. But nowadays, I think hand notes are much more effective. And that's why i bought it a few hours ago and RUclips recommended it now. What a wonderful algorithm!
i would just like to say that using REM note has changed my life. seriously, it’s already got the bullet point system that i’ve been using for my handwritten notes for AGES, plus it creates flash cards directly from your notes. For me, it’s the perfect hybrid between Notion and Anki with a few nice add ons like cross referencing and REMs.
I'm a fan of an iPad for engineering and mathematics because you are able to draw out graphs and work out problems where you couldn't on a computer; nice video!
For the research on the spot issue, one can now open two screens at once, so you can split screen ti a browser. As someone mentioned previously also as a physics major, the iPad is life changing, especially when you use both your computer and iPad together for lessons, however I do see how it could be annoying for medicine.
@@darwin5117 yeah, but if you are mostly using web based apps, the ipad is fine, and i little the versility of the iPad Pro, because you can choose keyboard and no keyboard, and a lot of the stuff it already optimized. And i bought it before the m1 macs.
I think the iPad has it's pros and cons. I've actually gone through most of law school with an old iPad Air and a laptop case, which was the laptop-ized version of an iPad before the iPad Pro was a thing lmao. It was okay, I liked it because it was really portable but the os had it's limitations (some of which have been overcome with the creation of the pro line, of course! but others are still there, inherent to the fact that it's still an iPadOS). When I retired that iPad, I was in this one predicament: should I buy a MacBook Pro/air or an iPad Pro? Pricepoint wise they were all pretty similar (and steep) so I was willing to spend for either of the three. I ended up buying a MacBook and I stand by that choice. I've been tempted to buy an iPad every now and then but I think it's more a whim kind of thing. I think you should consider a few things: - Is an iPad going to make you more prone to do work on it? Are you going to enjoy it more? If you enjoy it, it'll totally boost your productivity and will only end up with good things like engaging more in class. - What kind of work do you need to do? Is a laptop going to be more stable for you? Or do you think you'd like the versatility of an iPad? - Are you going to want to use an external monitor? (I do, and it's the best 300 bucks I've spent in a while. Makes doing homework/preparing documents for work SO MUCH EASIER AND COMFORTABLE). My solution? I bought the MacBook Pro first and foremost and then I got a rocketbook notebook (for taking notes in class and random little notes). 1) The MacBook works fantastic for my needs and I do genuinely like the fact that it's not an iPad (because I think I personally view the iPad as more of a fun time item instead of work lmao, idk, maybe it's silly). 2) The rocketbook notebook, on the other side, has helped me reduce my paper usage by a lot and it also makes taking notes a lot more fun to me (and has removed the amount of clutter I was accumulating).
Yess. I ALWAYS use the screenshot function. If you do CMD + SHIFT + CTRL + 4, you can actually save the image onto your clipboard, so you don't even need to drag the image from the bottom right corner. I usually use a clipboard history saver extension as well
I am very early on in the video at this point, but you said you switched from writing notes on your iPad to taking laptop notes. Physically writing your notes will help with memorization. Typing your notes is proven to have a negative impact on memorization. You can, reasonably quickly, take full screenshots from the iPad itself instead of taking a pic using your phone, etc. I think you made the switch too soon rather than learning the tool you had at hand. But hey, whatever works for you.
iPads are so good studying engineering. I have pages of handwritten maths/equations examples and lecture notes that I can annotate. I usually watch prerecorded lectures on my laptop and annotate the slides on my ipad.
At least for me, the issue arises when anything mathematic comes along. Sure you can write your notes in LaTeX, but that’s time consuming and near impossible to keep up with. I have yet to find an effective way to create graphs, math equations, and diagrams using a keyboard. That said, I still love my laptop and prefer it over the iPad for anything other than note taking, but I think the iPad still has its place
I’m an iPad user since the lockdown probably after watching this video I do feel a laptop or MacBook for my choose would be more productive! Thanks for the video 😃 Very much helpful 👌
yesss i agree! i’m an a-level student personally (so not quite the same as in uni lol, much less work but i think still somewhat relevant), and i use my laptop for eVERYTHING, i do use my ipad too, but not for notes, it just doesn’t work for notes for me, and i couldn’t use it as a laptop substitute and type my notes either (although i have the 2018 ipad tbf). i do use it a lot though don’t get me wrong - i use it daily for online school work, mostly just questions and stuff, and it’s very helpful, but totally not necessary at all!
I also just realized how more productive with my labtop than with the iPad to study but I still want to give the iPad an exclusive and special use. Ideas no what your iPad excels?
@@Pameliux23 personally i find it useful for when you are doing practice questions, especially for maths, but i take a-level bio, chem and maths and use it for questions for all three! that’s honestly the main purpose i use it for.
Informative, genuine, charming, knowledgeable, good vibe and doesn’t fill the video with unnecessary details. Please keep it the good work... I can’t wait for the next video. With love from Finland
Kicking it off right at the first video! Huge respect! a few thoughts from a fellow RUclipsr: 1 Good audio and video quality which is great! 2 Make sure to look at the camera. I know it's difficult in the beginning so you may want to use your back camera if you use your phone or don't have a mirror of yourself at all. Imagining you're talking to somebody else may help, too. 3 I like the light in the background (but would dim it a bit as it shines quite bright) 4 Make sure to keep the intro as short as possible. 20 seconds in I still don't really know what this is about and what my benefit from this video is (YT audience is terribly impatient :p) Keep it up I'm sure it's worth the effort!
@@elizabethfilips you're welcome :) Easy solution: cover it with a little sheet of paper. make sure your light bulb is an LED or so (so it doesn't heat up). also, I would add a call to action to the end of the video, preferably with a rathe sudden outro in order to surprise the viewer. Anytime, he or she anticipates the end of the video he/she is going to click away...
I feel like this is true for iPad users. For Samsung tablets/android tablets, we have the exact interface as a desktop computer (Dex mode) and also a multi-window feature where we can multi task AND the S-pen is absolutely helpful to quickly jot down notes and drag-drop images/words from across apps. I love it so much for note-taking now and it has changed my life forever.
I'd say it depends on what you study. As an engineering student, it would be counterproductive for me to note down derivations using my MacBook. I will say however, you really don't need the latest iPad on the market. I use one of the first versions to come out with Apple Pen compatibility and it serves me just fine.
This video is a year and a half old, but it got recommended to me so it's safe to assume it's still getting recommended to others as well. I just wanted to add my thoughts here from somebody on the other side of this argument. Use what works for you, not what somebody tells you is "better" or more efficient. I don't know why, but handwriting my notes is infinitely more important for making things stick in my head than any other note taking or study technique. When I first started university, I tried the whole taking notes on a laptop thing because it seemed so many people were doing it and I thought that was what I should be doing now that I'm taking big boy university classes, but after one semester all taking notes on a laptop did was quadruple my study time because instead of picking up a lot of the information in lecture, I was leaving lecture with very little understanding of what was going on and relying on my own studying to "teach" me a majority of the information that I feel I would have previously walked out of lecture already knowing. I watched all sorts of videos on the benefits of note taking on a laptop and the best methods for doing it, and yes, there are advantages like the ones mentioned in this video, but it doesn't matter at all that I can take a screenshot easier or copy paste something from google easier if I'm absorbing the content at a slower rate because of it. Cool, now I've got all this extra info and functionality in my notes, but instead of studying max 1 hour a day, I'm studying 4 hours a day because none of that stuff stuck in my head. I'm 27 now and going back to school for another degree and I bought an ipad this time around to take notes with, the functionality that the different note taking apps give is so insane compared to when I was first in school writing all my notes in a notebook, it allows me to still take my handwritten notes, but also make my notes so much more in depth and well organized. Sure, it may take me longer to get my notes super well organized and in depth with pictures and annotations and stuff, but it's still less time than I spent studying taking notes on a laptop. Now all I do is use some flashcards in my downtime and a couple other active recall methods every now and then and I'm good to go. Also, I'm not saying that taking notes on a laptop is bad or inferior in any way, there are some people who don't struggle to retain info while typing notes and so it's just objectively better for them to choose the more efficient way, which is typing. There are some people who might not be very good at retaining info directly from lecture either way and they're gonna have to study a ton no matter what, so again it's gonna just straight up make more sense to choose the most efficient way. But for anybody who is like me, the reduction in note taking time/increased functionality when using a laptop doesn't outweigh the increased time spent trying to retain the info after lecture. TL;DR If handwriting notes is your preferred method, don't switch to a laptop just because somebody tells you it's better or more efficient.
Thank you so much for saying that handwriting is not necessary. I started taking notes on my computer since the second year of university and my grades got better and better. I take too long writing things by hand and there's absolutely no reason for that.
your feelings are completely valid but as a graphic design student and ipad is definitely a must have for on the go edits and designs but i may be a bit biased as my professor recommended one
So basically I should wait to see how the first few semesters of my CS grad curriculum go before I invest in an iPad. Gotta separate my materialistic desire from need 😂
@@aishwaryathadiparthi4798 should have gotten a MacBook Air and slip in the iPad. MacBook Air m1 is more than enough for CS students according to numerous reviews I saw
I’m a cs student and have both a laptop and an ipad, I use ipad for youtube and stuff like RUclips since I like portability, I use ipad for quick studies and studies that doesn’t require coding, when I do serious studies I always use my laptop, when you get a job being in the cs field you wont use an ipad but a laptop or a desktop pc, I recommend a laptop and only go for an ipad when you can afford it and still be financially stable after the purchase
You're thinking exclusively about what is most efficient, fastest, most practical, most logical. Some people just enjoy writing their notes. Not everything is a rat race.
I really thought at first that it would be a generic "being different than the crowd" type of video but you really had some valid points that i personally have come across in the past.
Girl, with all due respect, I think the problem was not the iPad, but you who did not know how to use it completely. Everything you mention that you can do on the computer, on the iPad can be done much faster and in addition write notes instantly, including other possibilities, such as taking a photo of an example that the teacher or lecturer does at the moment on a blackboard, without having to take out the cell phone. I'm just saying 🤷🏻♂️
Exactly. The only thing you can’t do on an ipad is run x86 x64 programs like Fusion 360 or Matlab or AutoCAD. Even then, they have apps like Shadow PC app or Jump desktop that lets you have a windows pc or macOS remote instance on your iPad. I literally use my iPad as a full desktop computer at work using Shadow PC. iPad plugs into a dock with hdmi keyboard and mouse and Ethernet and run Windows 11 or MacOS environment on the iPad. People just need to learn how to use an iPad correctly
Heyy ! I’m a general surgeon 2nd year resident ! I’d suggest ipad for every student possible ! It worked for me ! Depends on how you use it ! Especially for medical students having that extra edge of Apple Pencil functionality will make a huge difference!
It always depends on what you are studying. If you study mathematics, physics or chemistry you have to calculate a lot. Writing by hand would be much easier for that.
08:38 "Even though no one ask for that video..." Well, I was going to ask. So thank you. And BTW you won me over, and I am now subscribed. Your frank, honest and transparent way of communicating is such an attraction. Great video.
This video made me feel so much better about not buying an iPad! I see so many people online with an iPad and it kind of makes you feel like you need one even if you don't. Even though I do a humanities degree, if I do need to annotate my readings, I prefer printing things out anyway
Annotating on the iPads is so much easier you do not have to have bunch of highlighters and pencils. You don't have to have bunch of papers. Easier to find readings.
@@darthvader1793 not a requirement but for readings and slides its so much easier to annotate on iPad than print 100s of pages and flipping. its not magically gonna increase your grade but will definitely make your life a little easier
Hey! As a High school student, knowing absolutely nothing of university, I'd just like to say that you really inspired me today! My dream is to become a doctor, and my passion is art, so you starting your video saying you're an med student and an artist is just inspiring to me. Thank you! Btw, I already prefer my computer for studying, but I'd love to buy an iPad for Procreate and mobility, so I get the best of both worlds! Yay!
For me as a med student it's definitely ipad!! And i get why a lot of med (or any science major) are falling in love with ipad, the thing is i find it really practical in note-taking wither it was drawing or adding notes to your book (pdf) or making mind maps that you can reach to by only one click and its cheaper and can easily be as good as a laptop by just adding a keyboard while i can't just remove the keyboard from my laptop to write or take decent notes in a comfortable way, so like ipad is a laptop when you want and a notebook (that you can write in faster and prettier!) when you want & for me personally that it's smaller and easy to reach and open faster made a huge different for me SPECIALLY in person college it saved me a lot that i don't need to carry around a huge laptop or a notebook (that took a lot of time bc i sometimes needed to retake them on my laptop) now just the ipad doing both notebook and laptop work in a small more practical way, after 3 years with laptops finding ipad was so comfortable for me so i think it depends on your major, mg brother could never buy an iPad bc he depends on coding a lot and some majors might need them both my other brother have formulas more than words so it's hard to take notes on laptop but he also needed a laptop for big specifics apps thar can't be on ipad but other than that he would everything on ipad while practicing on laptop
Honestly, there's just something productive about writing simple notes on a piece of paper while studying. I even find it better to just simply print all slides given to me rather than consuming them from a screen, but maybe this is all because I am heavily visual and in a predominantly visual field.
Lol so true people just over complicating small issues that’s why the academic iq is so low nowadays because people or not relying on the traditional method the way knowledge was preserve in ones memory rather they rely on things that aren’t human and that can have malfunction problems
I’d rather not use that much paper personally when I could download slides and write on them using the Apple Pencil with the iPad plus it’s light weight and easy to carry around
our WHOLE school (1000 students) is going to be given iPads in the next few weeks. We will all receive them with a keyboard and Apple Pencil; I would prefer laptops a whole lot, I think everyone would, IPads are such a hassle, funny thing is the teachers ipads just sit there, instead they're using laptops etc. They can't afford biology teachers, yet they can get ipads for everyone, how ridiculous!!
Yes I agree. I'm an industrial engineering student, so it is handy to use an IPad, due to the heavy math part. But for medical students it really isn’t as beneficial, as for math students. But it is nice to have 😂
Sort of painful for me to hear about your experience. Goodnotes basically fixed all of your issues. Screenshotting and Photographing right into your notebook, full PDF Import & export, great OCR functionality, index cards with spaced-repetition functionality right in the App etc. After every lecture or reading session, my notes are also exported as a PDF to OneNote, sorted by topic, so I can browse by date, topic or module and always got everything at hand on every device. Goodnotes can be shared across platforms and used in a browser, OneNote can do the same. Theres really no reason for me why I would want to use a Laptop for lectures. That's reserved for me solely to write essays etc. where I then pull my notes up in OneNote. Since OneNote now also allows text search in screenshots and images, you can copy & paste from your handrwitten texts and have it translated into computer text when pasted into Word for example. Really fluent process and works best for me.
I just bought a tablet mostly because my laptop is too big to fit into my bag, so I have to bring a separate laptop bag which is very unpractical, especially on a crowded bus. I'll still be using my laptop at home, I don't really need it for adding text and other small changes which is most of what I do at school.
I'm an English major, and annotating is one of the biggest parts of our educations. I think I'm getting an iPad because it's way more portable than my 15.6 inch gaming laptop. I think it really depends on the individual.
hey, I am going to study english next year and trying to decide whether and ipad or a mac is better for english particularly, if you have any advice (if you ended up getting the ipad) I would love to know :)))
A game changer for me has been Ctrl + Cmd + Shift + 4 (copies the screenshot to clipboard) and paste onto my iPad. You can annotate the diagrams really easily and you get a lot of flexibility. I generally like to handwrite the important things because it helps me remember them. Best of both worlds.
I bought an iPad for school and I only use my apple pencil to write on my digital personal journal and to sketch. I feel like buying a keyboard and mouse made me improve my studying and also the active recall method is what's best for me now. I'm a law student so I have no time to do any handwriting work. I think it's fine if you're in high school or middle school but for college you'll need to befriend your keyboard and Notion lol Some people saved a lot to buy an iPad so if you can't buy a new laptop the keyboard and mouse will be your best choice.
Your review is best u have no idea how much value u've provided your review is the best. I was on the verge of getting an ipad instead of macbook after watching tons of reviews I somehow convinced myself for students ipad is good macbook is more for professionals. Man I was wrong. Thank you sooo much
this was so helpful i was thinking of getting an ipad but imma stick with my laptop!! also love your personality and whole vibe❤ wish you the best of luck and here's a sub hehhee x
Handwriting is definitely better for note taking. Computers are too constricting. I used good notes and in like organic chemistry, all those reactions and molecules trying to recreate those on the computer with chem draw or something takes 10 times longer than just drawing it but hand, and I have preset stickers for different common shapes in organic chemistry that make it even faster and neater. Definitely get a computer before getting an iPad, because for essays your going to need a computer and a lot of courses may want you to download a program for work. Like in Orgo Lab I needed Master Nova to process NMR data. For reasons like this even though the iPad is great it can’t completely replace the computer, however using an IPad for school work is extremely convenient.
The first time i got an ipad was in 2011 right after steve died... Back then it was massive! Changed everything. But today... I don't see any need for it long tern. I only have laptops and a mini pc. Coz they sre actual... Machines
The thing is, I use study methods such as active recall, spaced repetitions and flashcards. Zero notes at all but I have an ipad air. I use it for textbooks instead because I can get pdf version of my college textbooks and its way cheaper and easily accessible and I can just do everything with my ipad including writing on a planner and so on. I also can download pdf versions of any books I want to read or epub and I can access it to my ipad. I can do my typing on ipad as well especially since my 15 inch laptop is really heavy to carry around. I can just edit my typed notes at home with my windows laptop but for everyday carry and everything else the ipad is way to go.
Microsoft surface does everything a macbook and ipad can. It is both a tablet and a laptop, super fast, and you can screenshot and crop using one click of the pen. Its so easy!
That’s a really provokative statement. They so many different majors with different needs. I’m a third years architect student and it’s basically impossible for me to just do some fast technical sketches on a normal laptop. The ability to draw by hand at anytime is extremely important for architecture. The big plus is that you can switch immediately between sketches and typed in word with the iPad on the same document. That’s the real power. You should title your video different as your opinion can only be from you major Perspektive. Thanks
To each their own, obviously. I find using a stylus/tablet to be much more flexible and effective, especially for marking up PDFs or Word docs. It's also much better for making rough sketches of graphs or linking sections/sentences/points using arrows. I have no need to the sort of research on the fly, or the file management, the presenter describes. I do it all in OneNote which has a basic but sufficient file structure.
Still iPad I think has a lot of potential, because you use it in study, and you don't need to take notes on iPad, it is not for the lectures you stated. But you can't describe how much it is useful, if you have to write lots of exercises. iPad is the best for learning languages, cuz you can't work on textbooks on Mac like on Ipad with the pencil. Also Ipad is useful for musicians, like superrrr useful, with thousands of music sheets in one place and being able to make notes on them, then erase. In places where u need to write u can't compare ipad with Mac because the main purpose of ipad is the pencil. U can't make ipad Mac and the opposite way.
Would like to see an in-depth video on the differences between taking iPad notes to computer notes. Also could you provide your first year notes? Going to study med from next year at St. George’s so will be a good refresher just having something to go over. Overall a good quality video with to the point explanations. Looking forward to see more videos from you.
@@elizabethfilips you are right, I think online lectures are deffo a bit different to approach and so if you do that video I’m sure quite a few people regardless of their course (be it mathematics or history or medicine) would benefit from it. As far as sharing notes is concerned, you can choose to make a PDF but I would recommend google drive as it’s easy to manage. I’m also more than willing to provide some sort of support for your time since I do know taking notes isn’t the easiest thing and to share a whole year worth of notes will be a very generous gesture 😊
Hiya everyone! As a massive ex-iPad-notetaking fan, I have a lot of notes I made for medicine - if you would like to download the PDFs (for free) check them out (link below) - there's one for Immunology and one for Anatomy. I'm really not sure why so many people have asked me for them, there's much better resources out there! But I do really hope they help 💙
www.elizabethfilips.com/studynotes
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OMG These are amazing notes I just checked them!! U are the best. This is the first video of u that I've watched and I'm gonna subscribe u right now. Thanks a lot
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Which macbook do you use?
For a lot of science-heavy courses, I think having the ability to take notes free-handedly is just irreplaceable. Writing stuff down also helps with recall.
Exactly! For mathematics-intensive classes, typing just does not seem realistic. But she does make good points.
There have been studies that back up your comment-I agree.
Yes, and even better if you delay it and/or do it in the form of mindmaps or visuals rather than text as it activates other parts of your brain allowing you to consolidate more and possibly understand it at an initially deeper level.
Which thus lessens the amount of spaced repetitions (and time) you’ll have to do to achieve the same level of retention as it were otherwise!
Personally, I write to slow to do that but completely agree that hand writing helps so much with memorising and recalling
@@MeOfcourse12 Paper.
It’s funny how RUclips recommended this to me the day after I bought my iPad Air
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You can still use it I use both my iPad and my MacBook
same
Haha same here
You should still keep it find out what works for you because what works for her might not work for you
As a physics major I wouldn’t even consider taking notes on a laptop, it would just be impossible, my notes are more formulas and equations than actual words. I feel like every note-taking/study tips video I come across are from people who study medicine/chemistry/biology lol, math-based courses are on a totally different level and so different, would like to see more variety on RUclips
Take your LaTeX skills to a new level
We have many calculations, graphs, dervivations etc in medicine, but our professors, who almost always are also practicing doctors besides being educators and researchers, they expect us to understand all derivations, mathematical equations and relations, graphs etc in our free time. You will never see a medical professor deriving, integrating, differentiating a mathematical equation/relation on the blackboard, at most they will show us some graphs and conclusions of the recent studies and their biostatistical weaknesses. Our classes are strictly anecdotes and their experiences to impress upon broader concepts of the topic. Minutia are already in the books, but these anecdotes and experiences aren't. And still there's always out of time to go through all the relevant points. We hardly have lectures, these are mostly discussions and students attending them are supposed to come prepared with firm grasp on current practices, mathematics and statistics of the topic that will be discussed. So even though i hate to admit it but medical education in the time of pandemic, is much more effective with screen shots, and only writing down take home points. And after the second year of medical school, it's the students who have to take classes and seminars besides their ward and emergency duties, after which they will be grilled by the expert panel. Medical education is very different from arts, engineering, law, accountancy, basic sciences like physics, chemistry and maths.
Capturing their experiences and findings are much more important so screenshots of graphs and case photos help, handwriting very inefficient way of capturing information and data, more so if it is coming too fast, it's more useful as a tool to digest it and then organize it as knowledge, by linking blocks of recorded information with understood concepts.
@@martinsauer8856 i think using a pen on an un ending Onenote sheet would still be faster.
@@martinsauer8856 Agree!
I’m at the point where I end up writing latex code (accidentally) on my test papers. And it’s not a big hassle for me personally given the advantages of digital notes and flash cards
As a medical student I couldn't imagine not using an iPad. I completely stopped using a laptop. You just can't draw a quick chemical structures or type a biophysics formulas on a laptop.
I think the iPad is still the way to go, as it allows you to do both handwriting and typing, which I consider to be very useful.
Exactly. Everything she said, you can do on an iPad too. Just buy a keyboard for it. But good luck when you need to do handwriting on a computer. 😁
You need a laptop/ipad thag supports both basically
How many students actually need to hand write their notes? You can also just buy a cheap drawing tablet to use with your laptop for that anyway. I’ve seen so many students justify purchasing iPad pros talking about the benefit of handwriting over typing and saving paper when really the benefits of handwriting are minimal or can be achieved through better active studying methods which then leaves the saving paper argument that can easily be achieved by typing notes on a computer. That’s not even getting into how many of them still take notes and complete worksheets on paper.
@@winnief3661 I’m a Professor at a Medical School. Pretty much every student uses an iPad. It’s way more convenient for highlighting over papers or presentations, taking quick notes anywhere and having everything organized. I know most of them also have computers because I see them. But the majority of the time, they prefer to use their iPads. I was a student a few years ago and my iPad was a lifesaver.
I feel like I learn a lot better when I do handwriting. It just goes straight into my brain.
I’m a 3rd year med student in Dublin and I actually had the opposite experience. I started off typing my notes at the bottom of the lecture PowerPoint but that wasn’t really an efficient way for me to study. My school always uploads the actual lecture slides so personally I found it a lot easier to import the slides to notability and just write my notes directly on the slides to review before exams. I think I just learn better that way so that’s what worked for me but I understand how typing would be better in your situation.
I used to use this method in first year, it works super well - but ipads have been better for me now, both are great though!
Why not just annotate the PDFs on your laptop while typing? It doesn’t seem like your issue but actually trying to type directly in the PowerPoints.
have been using this method as well. I will have the powerpoints already downloaded and as professor is going through the lecture I annotate especially when professor emphasizes a subject. I also add blank powerpoints underneath some for written examples or further clarification for myself. Definitely recommend this method it's so helpful and much easier with a tablet and electronic pencil.
i think ipad for taking notes is perfect for people who don't have a final written examination. sadly all of my courses did this year, and 2nd year courses seem to all have written exams too. I'm gonna stick with the old $2 98 page notebook and the $1 ballpoint pens for taking notes and solving problems & questions xD
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Me watching this on the ipad that i bought before a week :
Honestly, I think it depends on which program you are in. I would still use an Ipad. Our teachers post the slides in advance on the school website. I download them before the lecture and take notes directly on them. Plus there is a lot of graphs and problem-solving in my program (engineering), which is easier to do on an Ipad.
And when I went to theatre school the iPad was so useful. You'd get scripts with minimal notice and I never had to sprint to the library to print like everyone else. And I could annotate and highlight right away, this was awhile ago with the iPad 2.
Yes exactly for non medical students its about practice and solving and using numbers and variables by typing or even for computer science where maths is a must which again needs to be solved
The funny thing is that I can do most things you mentioned with my iPad as well. Buying a MacBook wasn’t in my price range so I got an iPad and a Keyboard. I use notion on my iPad to take notes of the books I’m reading and I’m using GoodNotes for the lecture notes. I do have to say that I didn’t try it while having online school, but most of the specific things you mentioned are possible in GoodNotes. You can use the lasso tool to copy or move everything around, and you can open two documents in a split screen view. Sure, opening multiple tabs while having a smaller screen isn’t as easy, but I hope we won’t have online lectures for ever. In class, I usually have GoodNotes Open and if I have to look things up, I just quickly open google.
This is not meant to be hate or anything. I just wanted to mention that some things are still possible if you have an iPad and most of these reasons only really apply if you have a laptop or computer.
Do you mind telling which Ipad you have?
@@molkala2084 I have the Ipad 8. generation. But I should mention that I actually did get a macbook since then. I still use my Ipad in school to write notes, but I do use my macbook for most of the stuff that involves typing.
@@july3817 I use my iPad 8 for everything
I have been experimenting with this and it make sense there is no need of handwriting notes unless u are doing math !! The point is active recall sorts everything out perfectly!!
Is Active Recall an app-?, ...and is it only iOS, or Windows' and/or Android-? Thanking you in advance.
@@asherwade active recall is a learning method
Not only if you’re doing math. I used handwritten annotation in biology because there were just so many pictures that I needed to scribble into
For me the way I study is rewriting my notes and having it handwritten is really helpful
@@melaninkind8783 Why is laptop better for active recall?
I've had the opposite experience as a medical student. I think, it depends upon from person to person. I owned a laptop in the 1st year of medicine, it was timetaking for me to switch it on and off everytime and even the charging process seemed difficult. Couldn't read while falling asleep, couldn't take it to places.
With Ipad I use split screen when I need to multitask (video lectures on one side, and collanotes on the otherside mainly in landscape view) while using collanotes, I import pdfs/books/notes and add points I think is relevant. Moreover diagrams are much better with the apple pencil.
Laptops are definitely the way to go in med school! After a term of handwriting I had to make the switch 😭
You can type on an iPad too
@@mehdikadiri5438 but you type faster on a macbook
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Just get an ipad keyboard.. still cheaper than a mac..
Writing helps you remenber things easier that is scienfically proven.
But also wastes more time
@@acep9234 😘
Both the Air version, and now selling it after not touching it 2 years. Laptop + Desktop are more than enough for me!
This is such a fresh perspective vs a lot of RUclips content that promotes iPads as a must for med school 😭 Thankyou!!
PRO TIP for taking a screenshot on mac :
Press the control button in addition to the shift+cmd+4 combination and your screenshot will be COPIED as if you copied a text and then you can simply paste it! ;) makes the whole process much smoother and with less friction. good luck!
Thank you so much!!
@@mathewsgeorge your welcome!
To some extent I agree with you; however, if you're reviewing documents such as PDFs, a tablet with a pen is much more comfortable. Using a pen just releases the stress.
Came to this late. Thanks so much for this truth. There's such a number of youtubers who make one think that without an ipad and goodnotes/notablity you are missing out on academic achievement. This makes so much sense. Gratitude for putting this out there
I disagree. The ipad was 100% worth the investment for me.
All of this can be done on an I pad and u have that option of writing stuff down just in case you need to ! Making diagrams and other things might take lesser time when done by hand !
I agree, and with screen recording in the iPad you can record the whole zoom lecture to watch again if you need to.
@Elizabeth Filips You can just use a Bluetooth keyboard (and mouse) with your iPad.
There are a lot of medical students here on youtube who advocate not taking notes at all..many put more energy into capturing key items into flashcards and some reformulate concepts into more visual models like mind maps etc. I agree with many here that it probably "depends"...on the are of study, personal style etc. However, you do bring up some interesting points. One issue I have always had is the lack of legibility of my own handwriting (self encrypted HA). I do believe that graphical summary and markup can be helpful.
This is definitely personal to the way a particular person learns. There is not an end all, be all method that will work for everyone. Writing is actually how I learn, so for me the iPad has been extremely helpful, but I know others who prefer other ways of absorbing class material.
I have both a Macbook and an iPad and their interconnectivity is incredibly useful. I use my iPad for notes during and after my lectures whilst I use my Macbook for homework and research. The feel of a laptop whilst typing up documents and making powerpoints isn’t the same if I were to be using a magic keyboard due to the ergonomics. Although both are portable and I take on the go all, theres a difference between the two if I were to take them out of my backpack.
Sounds like your issue wasn’t the iPad but the software. You can also type on an iPad and can screenshot without having to save them in photos.
exactly
how do you screenshot like that?
@@fatimajameel1357 when you take the screenshot save it in files,,
@@fatimajameel1357 with Apple Pencil or the buttons
Yes, you can even just immediately share the screenshot to the note-taking app or wherever. It could be a matter of not knowing all the shortcuts and features of an iPad. Because I didn’t hear her mention anything that couldn’t also be done on an iPad.
Honestly, I disagree! As a biology major who used the notebook/laptop combo for my first 3 years and then an iPad for my 4th year, I found using an iPad to be much more helpful and intuitive in regards to taking notes. Being able to download lecture slides in advance and mark them up saved me SO much writing/typing time. Also, taking notes on a laptop when you're taking classes that involve math/formulas/reactions/etc. is incredibly difficult. I used GoodNotes on my iPad and found it much easier to navigate than any note-taking app on my laptop.
Do you have 11inch or 12.9 inch?
I use my iPad for notes but use my computer for major essays/projects, there are just some things an iPad can’t do like a computer
I agree with every point you said. I was a religious iPad user for the first four years of my university and switched to laptop only in medical school. It’s been so much more better to put my notes into anki cards immediately after lecture, rather than having to go through so many hoops with an iPad
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Yeah you can't get the full version of anki on an iPad.
Use android, its better than both
I'd like to point out that notetaking varies depending on major. Us engineering majors need a stylus or pen way more than other majors that don't need to do math, diagrams, tables, etc. on the fly. I'm not sure the iPad is worth the money, but an engineer definitely won't take as effective notes purely by typing.
This is so strange to me being born and brought up in India. I can't really imagine taking notes on any sort of electronic device, it has to be pen and paper. It's a much more deeper connection to me immediately to write down something, it carves in my memory better. How do you write exams? Those are also on Mac or PC? Without practice, the writing would be very slow and handwriting would be so bad as well.
Agree! Recently, I am watching this trend of people (who can afford iPad) taking notes on iPads and I just think to myself "Is this some kind of western influence to take notes on electronic devices?" when clearly our school system does not encourage electronic devices. The schools outside India permit these devices in class.
@@artbyvru I am from Spain and we also take notes on paper, with really few exceptions. I went to school in the UK and back then everybody took notes on paper too, I think it’s more of a university thing in the UK :)
@@artbyvru If they're still physically writing down the notes (something you can do on the iPad), what difference does it make if they're taking them on a tablet vs a piece of paper besides how it feels? It even saves a lot of paper.
Problems arise mainly when you are trying to exclusively type your notes instead of writing them by hand.
If your school wouldn't permit such a device, I think that is a problem. Not a thing to be proud of.
@@matthewdavis9437 Well by your name I presume you don't live in India so cleaely you don't know the system here.
We don't have any electronic devices permitted in school and because the cost of iPad is insanely high as per the exchange rate here it is not something everyone can afford. So taking notes on paper in the school but then buying an iPad just because you saw that online and rewriting the already handwritten notes on the iPad when you get home is nonsensical.
Also to clarify I'm talking about school. I topped my classes in school so I know that there is no need for excessive organisation of notes. We have different physical notebooks nd they are more than enough - if that's your argument.
In college this may be different.
P. S. I am not judging if having electronic devices are a problem or not. Just stating that it is not mandatory and not needed at all. Having devices in school would be a problem for me. Students need to concentrate in school and not check their phones every 5 minutes.
As a North American student who used to write notes only by hand, the main advantage to having an electronic note-taking device is that almost all my teachers gave pdfs for each lesson. These pdfs are often incredibly long (75+ pages) and are difficult and wastful to print out. Also, with an iPad I would have ended up saving so much more time and energy actively listening in class instead of franctically recopying what was already written in the pdf without fully understanding it. I definitely would have had a much easier time in my organic chemistry class (and gotten a better grade) if I used a tablet. So many of you in the comments are right, this is a result of western influence, and it is a financial privilege to be able to consider that note-taking option. Oh and the writing slowly on paper comment made me laugh bc most ppl still write by hand, just on a screen. I've rarely seen students type down their notes on a laptop or got really annoyed by the typing sounds during the rare times they did :P
I have been using my laptop as principal note maker. But nowadays, I think hand notes are much more effective.
And that's why i bought it a few hours ago and RUclips recommended it now. What a wonderful algorithm!
i would just like to say that using REM note has changed my life. seriously, it’s already got the bullet point system that i’ve been using for my handwritten notes for AGES, plus it creates flash cards directly from your notes. For me, it’s the perfect hybrid between Notion and Anki with a few nice add ons like cross referencing and REMs.
Oh wow, thank you for the tip!
Is it free? I use Anki but the price on mobile is a huge turn off to me :(
@@complex952 it is! you have to pay for some extra features like graph view and image occlusion, but the base is excellent.
I'm a fan of an iPad for engineering and mathematics because you are able to draw out graphs and work out problems where you couldn't on a computer; nice video!
It's useful for me in med school. I download the powpoint slides and take notes on top of it on notability. Saves a lot of time.
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For the research on the spot issue, one can now open two screens at once, so you can split screen ti a browser. As someone mentioned previously also as a physics major, the iPad is life changing, especially when you use both your computer and iPad together for lessons, however I do see how it could be annoying for medicine.
Oh ipad, if you have a external keyboard, you have the same commands. And you have the advantage of touchscreen for your screenshot.
I know😭😭 literally everything u can do on MacBook u can do on iPad. I guess Mac OS might be more advanced tho
@@darwin5117 yeah, but if you are mostly using web based apps, the ipad is fine, and i little the versility of the iPad Pro, because you can choose keyboard and no keyboard, and a lot of the stuff it already optimized. And i bought it before the m1 macs.
@@jasonkao4084 big fax, at this point I would take the iPad with keyboard n pen over laptop any day
@@darwin5117 i hope the next ipad, has Big Sur, so people can have a choice on what they want
@@jasonkao4084 neve r happening...big sur never coming to iPad for obvious reasons like not being optimised for touch
I think the iPad has it's pros and cons. I've actually gone through most of law school with an old iPad Air and a laptop case, which was the laptop-ized version of an iPad before the iPad Pro was a thing lmao. It was okay, I liked it because it was really portable but the os had it's limitations (some of which have been overcome with the creation of the pro line, of course! but others are still there, inherent to the fact that it's still an iPadOS).
When I retired that iPad, I was in this one predicament: should I buy a MacBook Pro/air or an iPad Pro? Pricepoint wise they were all pretty similar (and steep) so I was willing to spend for either of the three. I ended up buying a MacBook and I stand by that choice. I've been tempted to buy an iPad every now and then but I think it's more a whim kind of thing.
I think you should consider a few things:
- Is an iPad going to make you more prone to do work on it? Are you going to enjoy it more? If you enjoy it, it'll totally boost your productivity and will only end up with good things like engaging more in class.
- What kind of work do you need to do? Is a laptop going to be more stable for you? Or do you think you'd like the versatility of an iPad?
- Are you going to want to use an external monitor? (I do, and it's the best 300 bucks I've spent in a while. Makes doing homework/preparing documents for work SO MUCH EASIER AND COMFORTABLE).
My solution?
I bought the MacBook Pro first and foremost and then I got a rocketbook notebook (for taking notes in class and random little notes).
1) The MacBook works fantastic for my needs and I do genuinely like the fact that it's not an iPad (because I think I personally view the iPad as more of a fun time item instead of work lmao, idk, maybe it's silly).
2) The rocketbook notebook, on the other side, has helped me reduce my paper usage by a lot and it also makes taking notes a lot more fun to me (and has removed the amount of clutter I was accumulating).
Yess. I ALWAYS use the screenshot function. If you do CMD + SHIFT + CTRL + 4, you can actually save the image onto your clipboard, so you don't even need to drag the image from the bottom right corner. I usually use a clipboard history saver extension as well
YESS this is honestly lifechanging!
I am very early on in the video at this point, but you said you switched from writing notes on your iPad to taking laptop notes. Physically writing your notes will help with memorization. Typing your notes is proven to have a negative impact on memorization. You can, reasonably quickly, take full screenshots from the iPad itself instead of taking a pic using your phone, etc. I think you made the switch too soon rather than learning the tool you had at hand.
But hey, whatever works for you.
iPads are so good studying engineering. I have pages of handwritten maths/equations examples and lecture notes that I can annotate. I usually watch prerecorded lectures on my laptop and annotate the slides on my ipad.
At least for me, the issue arises when anything mathematic comes along. Sure you can write your notes in LaTeX, but that’s time consuming and near impossible to keep up with. I have yet to find an effective way to create graphs, math equations, and diagrams using a keyboard. That said, I still love my laptop and prefer it over the iPad for anything other than note taking, but I think the iPad still has its place
Latex is super. I miss it. I used it for my master thesis
I think it depends on your major. As a (pre law) criminal justice and sociology major w/ ADHD using a iPad AND a laptop is essential for me.
I’m an iPad user since the lockdown probably after watching this video I do feel a laptop or MacBook for my choose would be more productive! Thanks for the video 😃 Very much helpful 👌
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yesss i agree! i’m an a-level student personally (so not quite the same as in uni lol, much less work but i think still somewhat relevant), and i use my laptop for eVERYTHING, i do use my ipad too, but not for notes, it just doesn’t work for notes for me, and i couldn’t use it as a laptop substitute and type my notes either (although i have the 2018 ipad tbf). i do use it a lot though don’t get me wrong - i use it daily for online school work, mostly just questions and stuff, and it’s very helpful, but totally not necessary at all!
I also just realized how more productive with my labtop than with the iPad to study but I still want to give the iPad an exclusive and special use. Ideas no what your iPad excels?
@@Pameliux23 personally i find it useful for when you are doing practice questions, especially for maths, but i take a-level bio, chem and maths and use it for questions for all three! that’s honestly the main purpose i use it for.
Informative, genuine, charming, knowledgeable, good vibe and doesn’t fill the video with unnecessary details.
Please keep it the good work...
I can’t wait for the next video.
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Kicking it off right at the first video! Huge respect!
a few thoughts from a fellow RUclipsr:
1 Good audio and video quality which is great!
2 Make sure to look at the camera. I know it's difficult in the beginning so you may want to use your back camera if you use your phone or don't have a mirror of yourself at all. Imagining you're talking to somebody else may help, too.
3 I like the light in the background (but would dim it a bit as it shines quite bright)
4 Make sure to keep the intro as short as possible. 20 seconds in I still don't really know what this is about and what my benefit from this video is (YT audience is terribly impatient :p)
Keep it up I'm sure it's worth the effort!
@@elizabethfilips you're welcome :)
Easy solution: cover it with a little sheet of paper. make sure your light bulb is an LED or so (so it doesn't heat up).
also, I would add a call to action to the end of the video, preferably with a rathe sudden outro in order to surprise the viewer. Anytime, he or she anticipates the end of the video he/she is going to click away...
I feel like this is true for iPad users. For Samsung tablets/android tablets, we have the exact interface as a desktop computer (Dex mode) and also a multi-window feature where we can multi task AND the S-pen is absolutely helpful to quickly jot down notes and drag-drop images/words from across apps. I love it so much for note-taking now and it has changed my life forever.
Why use Dex when you can have a real windows and/or osx desktop experience with Jump Desktop or Shadow PC?
I feel dumb why did I always use command shift 3? 😂😂😂
I'd say it depends on what you study. As an engineering student, it would be counterproductive for me to note down derivations using my MacBook. I will say however, you really don't need the latest iPad on the market. I use one of the first versions to come out with Apple Pen compatibility and it serves me just fine.
Hey Elizabeth, I actually do all of what you do on my iPad in quick timing. I think people can still find iPads very useful for university.
This video is a year and a half old, but it got recommended to me so it's safe to assume it's still getting recommended to others as well. I just wanted to add my thoughts here from somebody on the other side of this argument. Use what works for you, not what somebody tells you is "better" or more efficient. I don't know why, but handwriting my notes is infinitely more important for making things stick in my head than any other note taking or study technique. When I first started university, I tried the whole taking notes on a laptop thing because it seemed so many people were doing it and I thought that was what I should be doing now that I'm taking big boy university classes, but after one semester all taking notes on a laptop did was quadruple my study time because instead of picking up a lot of the information in lecture, I was leaving lecture with very little understanding of what was going on and relying on my own studying to "teach" me a majority of the information that I feel I would have previously walked out of lecture already knowing. I watched all sorts of videos on the benefits of note taking on a laptop and the best methods for doing it, and yes, there are advantages like the ones mentioned in this video, but it doesn't matter at all that I can take a screenshot easier or copy paste something from google easier if I'm absorbing the content at a slower rate because of it. Cool, now I've got all this extra info and functionality in my notes, but instead of studying max 1 hour a day, I'm studying 4 hours a day because none of that stuff stuck in my head. I'm 27 now and going back to school for another degree and I bought an ipad this time around to take notes with, the functionality that the different note taking apps give is so insane compared to when I was first in school writing all my notes in a notebook, it allows me to still take my handwritten notes, but also make my notes so much more in depth and well organized. Sure, it may take me longer to get my notes super well organized and in depth with pictures and annotations and stuff, but it's still less time than I spent studying taking notes on a laptop. Now all I do is use some flashcards in my downtime and a couple other active recall methods every now and then and I'm good to go.
Also, I'm not saying that taking notes on a laptop is bad or inferior in any way, there are some people who don't struggle to retain info while typing notes and so it's just objectively better for them to choose the more efficient way, which is typing. There are some people who might not be very good at retaining info directly from lecture either way and they're gonna have to study a ton no matter what, so again it's gonna just straight up make more sense to choose the most efficient way. But for anybody who is like me, the reduction in note taking time/increased functionality when using a laptop doesn't outweigh the increased time spent trying to retain the info after lecture.
TL;DR If handwriting notes is your preferred method, don't switch to a laptop just because somebody tells you it's better or more efficient.
Thank you so much for saying that handwriting is not necessary. I started taking notes on my computer since the second year of university and my grades got better and better. I take too long writing things by hand and there's absolutely no reason for that.
Got here from Ali’s story. Glad I found you gurll.....cuz u r just awesome!!!
Truly refreshing! Never thought a video about taking notes could be so soothing 😅 thanks !
Also, what camera are you using to film this?
Everything you said can be done in an Ipad.
From taking screenshot by double tapping on the assistive touch.
You can use a keyboard with an ipad
your feelings are completely valid but as a graphic design student and ipad is definitely a must have for on the go edits and designs but i may be a bit biased as my professor recommended one
Thank you for making this video on ipad notetaking discussing just the opposite side of the coin, it definitely helped me.
So basically I should wait to see how the first few semesters of my CS grad curriculum go before I invest in an iPad. Gotta separate my materialistic desire from need 😂
lmao same i’m an incoming cs student. just bought a new macbook pro so i don’t think i can beg my parents for an ipad rn
@@aishwaryathadiparthi4798 should have gotten a MacBook Air and slip in the iPad. MacBook Air m1 is more than enough for CS students according to numerous reviews I saw
I’m a cs student and have both a laptop and an ipad, I use ipad for youtube and stuff like RUclips since I like portability, I use ipad for quick studies and studies that doesn’t require coding, when I do serious studies I always use my laptop, when you get a job being in the cs field you wont use an ipad but a laptop or a desktop pc, I recommend a laptop and only go for an ipad when you can afford it and still be financially stable after the purchase
You're thinking exclusively about what is most efficient, fastest, most practical, most logical. Some people just enjoy writing their notes. Not everything is a rat race.
Definitely 🙌
isnt that capitalism? do u think people ENJOY going to university?
@@M00niE_k some do
@@M00niE_k to each their own? some love the structured uni life while some don't
And the process of taking notes by writing them helps me memorizing easier
Very very true! I find working from a laptop way more efficient. I tried using an iPad but just found it took way too long. great video
For screenshotting, you can also press the control ^ to take a copy and just paste it instead of wasting space.
I really thought at first that it would be a generic "being different than the crowd" type of video but you really had some valid points that i personally have come across in the past.
Oh thank you so much!
Hey, I’m here from Ali’s IG! Nice content. Wish you the best of luck.
I’m interest in the note taking during lecture video can’t wait!! This video gave me so much to think about, you brought up really good points🤔
Girl, with all due respect, I think the problem was not the iPad, but you who did not know how to use it completely. Everything you mention that you can do on the computer, on the iPad can be done much faster and in addition write notes instantly, including other possibilities, such as taking a photo of an example that the teacher or lecturer does at the moment on a blackboard, without having to take out the cell phone. I'm just saying 🤷🏻♂️
Exactly. The only thing you can’t do on an ipad is run x86 x64 programs like Fusion 360 or Matlab or AutoCAD. Even then, they have apps like Shadow PC app or Jump desktop that lets you have a windows pc or macOS remote instance on your iPad. I literally use my iPad as a full desktop computer at work using Shadow PC. iPad plugs into a dock with hdmi keyboard and mouse and Ethernet and run Windows 11 or MacOS environment on the iPad. People just need to learn how to use an iPad correctly
wow, the stars must've aligned really well for you. My professors go at 2x speed during calls, idk if I'm alone in this, but I can't understand shit.
Heyy ! I’m a general surgeon 2nd year resident ! I’d suggest ipad for every student possible ! It worked for me ! Depends on how you use it ! Especially for medical students having that extra edge of Apple Pencil functionality will make a huge difference!
It always depends on what you are studying. If you study mathematics, physics or chemistry you have to calculate a lot. Writing by hand would be much easier for that.
I use OneNote and I can upload the whole lecture slides to a page and write around them :) it’s very useful if you wanna try that out
08:38 "Even though no one ask for that video..." Well, I was going to ask. So thank you. And BTW you won me over, and I am now subscribed. Your frank, honest and transparent way of communicating is such an attraction. Great video.
Awh thank you so much!!!
This video made me feel so much better about not buying an iPad! I see so many people online with an iPad and it kind of makes you feel like you need one even if you don't. Even though I do a humanities degree, if I do need to annotate my readings, I prefer printing things out anyway
Thank you Isabella!!
Annotating on the iPads is so much easier you do not have to have bunch of highlighters and pencils. You don't have to have bunch of papers. Easier to find readings.
@@darthvader1793 not a requirement but for readings and slides its so much easier to annotate on iPad than print 100s of pages and flipping. its not magically gonna increase your grade but will definitely make your life a little easier
Hey! As a High school student, knowing absolutely nothing of university, I'd just like to say that you really inspired me today! My dream is to become a doctor, and my passion is art, so you starting your video saying you're an med student and an artist is just inspiring to me. Thank you!
Btw, I already prefer my computer for studying, but I'd love to buy an iPad for Procreate and mobility, so I get the best of both worlds! Yay!
For me as a med student it's definitely ipad!! And i get why a lot of med (or any science major) are falling in love with ipad, the thing is i find it really practical in note-taking wither it was drawing or adding notes to your book (pdf) or making mind maps that you can reach to by only one click and its cheaper and can easily be as good as a laptop by just adding a keyboard while i can't just remove the keyboard from my laptop to write or take decent notes in a comfortable way, so like ipad is a laptop when you want and a notebook (that you can write in faster and prettier!) when you want & for me personally that it's smaller and easy to reach and open faster made a huge different for me SPECIALLY in person college it saved me a lot that i don't need to carry around a huge laptop or a notebook (that took a lot of time bc i sometimes needed to retake them on my laptop) now just the ipad doing both notebook and laptop work in a small more practical way, after 3 years with laptops finding ipad was so comfortable for me so i think it depends on your major, mg brother could never buy an iPad bc he depends on coding a lot and some majors might need them both my other brother have formulas more than words so it's hard to take notes on laptop but he also needed a laptop for big specifics apps thar can't be on ipad but other than that he would everything on ipad while practicing on laptop
This is a great set of recommendations, thanks for sharing this with us!
Honestly, there's just something productive about writing simple notes on a piece of paper while studying. I even find it better to just simply print all slides given to me rather than consuming them from a screen, but maybe this is all because I am heavily visual and in a predominantly visual field.
Lol so true people just over complicating small issues that’s why the academic iq is so low nowadays because people or not relying on the traditional method the way knowledge was preserve in ones memory rather they rely on things that aren’t human and that can have malfunction problems
I’d rather not use that much paper personally when I could download slides and write on them using the Apple Pencil with the iPad plus it’s light weight and easy to carry around
iPad + magic keyboard is the best way do go
our WHOLE school (1000 students) is going to be given iPads in the next few weeks. We will all receive them with a keyboard and Apple Pencil; I would prefer laptops a whole lot, I think everyone would, IPads are such a hassle, funny thing is the teachers ipads just sit there, instead they're using laptops etc. They can't afford biology teachers, yet they can get ipads for everyone, how ridiculous!!
Watching this on my ipad
Here at ~5K subscribers. And thank you for your tips & advice. Keep it coming!
Yes I agree. I'm an industrial engineering student, so it is handy to use an IPad, due to the heavy math part. But for medical students it really isn’t as beneficial, as for math students. But it is nice to have 😂
Sort of painful for me to hear about your experience.
Goodnotes basically fixed all of your issues. Screenshotting and Photographing right into your notebook, full PDF Import & export, great OCR functionality, index cards with spaced-repetition functionality right in the App etc.
After every lecture or reading session, my notes are also exported as a PDF to OneNote, sorted by topic, so I can browse by date, topic or module and always got everything at hand on every device.
Goodnotes can be shared across platforms and used in a browser, OneNote can do the same.
Theres really no reason for me why I would want to use a Laptop for lectures.
That's reserved for me solely to write essays etc. where I then pull my notes up in OneNote.
Since OneNote now also allows text search in screenshots and images, you can copy & paste from your handrwitten texts and have it translated into computer text when pasted into Word for example. Really fluent process and works best for me.
I just bought a tablet mostly because my laptop is too big to fit into my bag, so I have to bring a separate laptop bag which is very unpractical, especially on a crowded bus. I'll still be using my laptop at home, I don't really need it for adding text and other small changes which is most of what I do at school.
I'm an English major, and annotating is one of the biggest parts of our educations. I think I'm getting an iPad because it's way more portable than my 15.6 inch gaming laptop. I think it really depends on the individual.
hey, I am going to study english next year and trying to decide whether and ipad or a mac is better for english particularly, if you have any advice (if you ended up getting the ipad) I would love to know :)))
A game changer for me has been Ctrl + Cmd + Shift + 4 (copies the screenshot to clipboard) and paste onto my iPad. You can annotate the diagrams really easily and you get a lot of flexibility. I generally like to handwrite the important things because it helps me remember them. Best of both worlds.
YESSS
I bought an iPad for school and I only use my apple pencil to write on my digital personal journal and to sketch. I feel like buying a keyboard and mouse made me improve my studying and also the active recall method is what's best for me now. I'm a law student so I have no time to do any handwriting work. I think it's fine if you're in high school or middle school but for college you'll need to befriend your keyboard and Notion lol
Some people saved a lot to buy an iPad so if you can't buy a new laptop the keyboard and mouse will be your best choice.
Your review is best u have no idea how much value u've provided your review is the best.
I was on the verge of getting an ipad instead of macbook after watching tons of reviews I somehow convinced myself for students ipad is good macbook is more for professionals.
Man I was wrong.
Thank you sooo much
this was so helpful i was thinking of getting an ipad but imma stick with my laptop!! also love your personality and whole vibe❤ wish you the best of luck and here's a sub hehhee x
Handwriting is definitely better for note taking. Computers are too constricting. I used good notes and in like organic chemistry, all those reactions and molecules trying to recreate those on the computer with chem draw or something takes 10 times longer than just drawing it but hand, and I have preset stickers for different common shapes in organic chemistry that make it even faster and neater. Definitely get a computer before getting an iPad, because for essays your going to need a computer and a lot of courses may want you to download a program for work. Like in Orgo Lab I needed Master Nova to process NMR data. For reasons like this even though the iPad is great it can’t completely replace the computer, however using an IPad for school work is extremely convenient.
The first time i got an ipad was in 2011 right after steve died... Back then it was massive! Changed everything. But today... I don't see any need for it long tern. I only have laptops and a mini pc. Coz they sre actual... Machines
As a Law Student, I use a combination of handwritten notes on the iPad and typed notes.
Girl, I think you are the finest Doctor in the making.
The thing is, I use study methods such as active recall, spaced repetitions and flashcards. Zero notes at all but I have an ipad air. I use it for textbooks instead because I can get pdf version of my college textbooks and its way cheaper and easily accessible and I can just do everything with my ipad including writing on a planner and so on. I also can download pdf versions of any books I want to read or epub and I can access it to my ipad. I can do my typing on ipad as well especially since my 15 inch laptop is really heavy to carry around. I can just edit my typed notes at home with my windows laptop but for everyday carry and everything else the ipad is way to go.
Microsoft surface does everything a macbook and ipad can. It is both a tablet and a laptop, super fast, and you can screenshot and crop using one click of the pen. Its so easy!
This is really great video! I have been looking for efficient ways to take notes so I would love it if you made a video about detailed note taking! 😃
That’s a really provokative statement. They so many different majors with different needs. I’m a third years architect student and it’s basically impossible for me to just do some fast technical sketches on a normal laptop. The ability to draw by hand at anytime is extremely important for architecture. The big plus is that you can switch immediately between sketches and typed in word with the iPad on the same document. That’s the real power. You should title your video different as your opinion can only be from you major Perspektive. Thanks
I guess the title should’ve been “Why online lectures are better for taking notes”
To each their own, obviously. I find using a stylus/tablet to be much more flexible and effective, especially for marking up PDFs or Word docs. It's also much better for making rough sketches of graphs or linking sections/sentences/points using arrows. I have no need to the sort of research on the fly, or the file management, the presenter describes. I do it all in OneNote which has a basic but sufficient file structure.
Still iPad I think has a lot of potential, because you use it in study, and you don't need to take notes on iPad, it is not for the lectures you stated. But you can't describe how much it is useful, if you have to write lots of exercises. iPad is the best for learning languages, cuz you can't work on textbooks on Mac like on Ipad with the pencil. Also Ipad is useful for musicians, like superrrr useful, with thousands of music sheets in one place and being able to make notes on them, then erase. In places where u need to write u can't compare ipad with Mac because the main purpose of ipad is the pencil. U can't make ipad Mac and the opposite way.
but how about buying a laptop with a touch screen u can write on
Would like to see an in-depth video on the differences between taking iPad notes to computer notes. Also could you provide your first year notes? Going to study med from next year at St. George’s so will be a good refresher just having something to go over.
Overall a good quality video with to the point explanations. Looking forward to see more videos from you.
@@elizabethfilips you are right, I think online lectures are deffo a bit different to approach and so if you do that video I’m sure quite a few people regardless of their course (be it mathematics or history or medicine) would benefit from it.
As far as sharing notes is concerned, you can choose to make a PDF but I would recommend google drive as it’s easy to manage. I’m also more than willing to provide some sort of support for your time since I do know taking notes isn’t the easiest thing and to share a whole year worth of notes will be a very generous gesture 😊
Thank you! It was really great, you should post more videos about your academic experience and study methods!!
Good luck with everything :))