How I Organise my Notes as an Engineering Student

Having a good storage system will save you time, make things easier to find and will prevent you from losing important information. In this video I share with you how I organised my notes in OneNote and the filing system I used to organise my documents on my computer as an engineering student. Hopefully after watching this video you can take a moment and think about how you are storing your notes and files and have gotten some inspiration on how you could possibly improve.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:23 OneNote Overview
01:17 OneNote Structure
04:11 Desktop Folder Structure
WHO AM I:
I'm Ben, a graduate structural engineer working in Australia. I make videos about engineering and tech. In these videos I hope to provide entertainment, advice, and knowledge for aspiring and young engineers.

[@anonymoususer4356]

Great video, very clearly described.

[@BEngHielscher]

Thank you!

[@stardust7970]

Your videos are very helpful! Keep going!

[@BEngHielscher]

Thank you! I’m glad you like them :)

[@OralFixationVol2]

So useful! Thanks

[@BEngHielscher]

My pleasure! I’m glad you liked it

[@josefrancogutierrezmanriqu449]

God bro! this is gold!

[@BEngHielscher]

Thanks again! I have got a couple of structural engineering related videos that I’m working on at the moment and am excited to share. Looking forward to hearing what you think of them :)

[@HyperDavester]

Awesome video!

[@BEngHielscher]

Thank you! :)

[@shareqinamdar8903]

Please prepare a more longer demonstration of OneNote

[@lauracuster8583]

You should show OneNote folder organization while you are talking not a video of you talking. Or do it split screen if you must. Great organization skills and tips.

[@blakegarcia9724]

I mean he showed screenshots and screen recording of everything he talked about

[@comelysleeper646]

That was a lot to take in ngl😅 (I lost tracked while taking notes from your vid)

[@BEngHielscher]

I’m glad to hear you are getting a lot from this video :)

[@nbrewno]

I love the idea of using onenote for notes, but how do you handle calc equations when you only have a mouse and keyboard? or do you also keep a tablet/digital pen around for notes that have to be handwritten?

[@BEngHielscher]

Becuase I was using a microsoft surface pro I was always using a tablet/digital pen. This allowed me to hand write calcs whenever I needed :)

[@nbrewno]

@@BEngHielscher how did you like that computer for engineering courses? Could it handle solidworks?

[@BEngHielscher]

I never used Solidworks on my surface but I did use other modelling and analysis programs on it and it was ok 👍🏼

[@cRyS112]

I really like goodnotes, it looks so organized, but im starting to realize i miss the concept of writing in one page and looking to what i just wrote in the previous one. Onenote seems better for doing long exercises because you can write to the side and down how much you want. And for professors that use slides. But i have no idea how to integrate goodnotes and onenote... I like writing more in goodnotes, so i think for class with board annotation I will stick to it. But should i do the exercises in onenote? And what if the professor starts a slide, should i switch to onenote? Having information all around seems bad... any ideas?

[@BEngHielscher]

I think perhaps using GoodNotes with a blank page between each lecture slide sounds like it would work well for you. All in one place. Pages are sequential so you can scroll/flick between pages. Neat and tidy as your writing is confined to one page. Maybe see how this goes :)

[@sandraleon9619]

I have used One Note for years. However the interface you showed is much more updated than the one I use. Is yours web based, or a new edition? Please advise on which version you are using, I would really appreciate it. I'm an Engineer too

[@seesterno]

Onenote has a ersion for Android and 2 Versions for Windows. ,,OneNote for Windows 10" won't be updated. The other version is the most complete version

[@Itssspeace]

How do you Renanme the Notebook itself i cant seem to find it

[@BEngHielscher]

On windows, I believe if you right click on the notebook one of the options will be “rename” and on Mac it’s a bit more of a process. I suggest you google this and Microsoft has a support page which step by step explains the process :)