System for taking and organising reading notes

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 5, 2011 at 06:12 AM

Dr Andus wrote:
>I ended up with 9 notebooks
>with 200 pages each. So when it came to having to quickly find, collate and process
>information, that format was no good. I ended up having to scan them as PDFs, do that I
>could annotate them on my iPad and turn them into digitally searchable files. There
>has to be a better way.

You could try Livescribe or Irisnotes, discussed in another thread, and download their contents into your PC, including easy import in Evernote.

I personally concur with what Daly noted about writing longhand.

>So far there seem to two
>suggestions: 1) photograph hard copy book sections with a smartphone and add them to
>Evernote, alongside all other digital files, or 2) use Dragon to dictate notes and
>have them transcribed into a PIM.

To clarify: my proposal for using Evernote as the repository doesn’t exclude _any_ means of input as far as I am aware.

Re dictation: you may want to dictate to Dragon and import to Evernote the text and audio files (Evernote can monitor as many folders as you like for new files) or dictate to Evernote, e.g. via your Android phone, export the audio files to Dragon for transcription and then copy the text to the original audio note, whatever suits you best.