How I Study With My iPad
- Students: E, F, H, J, M.
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min read
Written by: Elle
Hey all! I'm apologize for not making a blog post last week but there was a lot going on regarding school work and gearing up for exams.
Today's post is a blog post all about how I study with my iPad and how you can too. Without further ado, let's begin!
In the 21st century studying has taken on many forms. Some being typing, printing notes, recording lectures, handwriting notes, flashcards, and among many others, using your iPad. After seeing people make beautiful notes all over the internet and following some accounts on our Instagram, I decided to watch some YouTube videos about note taking on your iPad. I thought quarantine was the perfect opportunity to try a new way of note taking, especially as exams are closing in on us, and decided to share all that I've discovered with you!
Everything is linked below!
To begin with this is the technology I work with...
iPad Air 3 (2019) 10.5
Apple Pencil 1st Generation
2016 Macbook Pro 13
Many people choose to purchase an iPad Pro but from what I've gathered as well as my own experience, this is by no means necessary. Any sort of iPad, and I'm sure tablet, is perfectly suitable. Furthermore, you can purchase simple stylus pens (although writing is a bit more difficult) and use the notes app on your device, granted if they have a drawing option.
Beware that writing on the iPad as stated by Samuel Suresh is like learning to write again, all because of the change in friction between paper and the glass screen. Matte screen protectors which resemble paper do indeed exist, but I find that writing on glass is not at all difficult once you've gotten used to it.
For free options, which unfortunately are quite limited, you can download Microsoft Word to write, OneNote to organize, and PowerPoint to annotate lectures. Unfortunately I haven't found any suitable free application which efficiently annotates PDF's but the Notes app works well enough.
As for apps you have to pay for there are a number of them, but my favorites are GoodNotes and Notability. Prior to having the iPad Air, I had an iPad Mini 1 or 2 (I can't recall) which couldn't be updated. As such I used Notepad+ and albeit free, it was quite limited and didn't allow me to write in a cohesive and neat way. I later came to find out that the new version is $20 whereas GoodNotes and Notability combined is $17. After seeing so many good reviews of both, I decided to purchase them.
Here are the basic features (there are many more so I will leave some helpful youtube channels below which I will update as I find some more):
Goodnotes 5
$7.99
Unlimited choice of colors
Templates to choose from (cornell method, grid, ruled)
Basic notebook covers
Scanning
Importing
Fountain pen, ballpoint pen, brush pen
Choice in thickness of highlighter, eraser and pens
Lasso tool for copy/paste, changing color, resizing and screenshotting
In-app search for particular notes
Notability
$8.99
Unlimited choice of colors
No templates (if you want to use any you have to import as pdf)
Organization by creating dividers and subjects
Scanning
Importing (connected to online storage)
Two pen options (normal + stroke)
Choice in thickness of highlighter
Scissor tool for copy/paste and styling
Recording lectures which follow your writing
Youtube Links
Thank you so much for reading yet another one of my posts! We will be posting a little less because of upcoming exams but we should make a comeback mid-June. Stay tuned!
See you all next time!
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