Best program for lecture notes

Posted by jbaltsar
Jun 9, 2016 at 02:08 PM

Hello everybody and thanks for all your replies.

I agree with most of what you said in one or the other way. Most important: I too think that students should first and foremost learn to work with pen and paper. I still believe that this is the most natural and effective way of primary data collection: simply jot it down, scribble, sketch, strike out ... ... Later on, and that’s what I’m trying to tell my son, he should try to make sense of what he wrote, straighten, condense, prettify - and however he does ist, that’s what learning is all about. I did it on hundreds of index cards (and I still have them somewhere in a box, after more than 20 years - try this with computer files), but if he wants to do it on his netbook it’s ok for me. I still like the idea of ZIM, and I recently rediscovered Noteliner, a single-pane outliner; most of all I like their simplicity, they do what they are supposed to do, without much hassle. OneNote is probably an extremely powerful program and it#s a good thing to be able to move data from there to a presentation or to Word - but for me it would be too powerful. Too many options, too much distraction, too many technical gizmos - it makes me feel old :-)

In the end he has to decide himself, what will fit his preferred workflow, as long as it is a workFLOW and not an endless tinkering with technical possibilites.

Cheers