You’re in 5 classes this semester, you have 5 different teachers teaching 5 unrelated subjects. You record with your phone, tablet, laptop, and some old recorder your mom found. You take pictures of the whiteboard when an important diagram is up just seconds before it gets wiped away. You are, by all rights, an excellent student. But how do you organize this amalgamation of pedagogy sweeping through every device? Meet Evernote, it’s excited to finally make your acquaintance.
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room, Evernote, and what it can do to help you be a better, more organized, less stressed student. Evernote is an app for iPhone, Android, Mac, and PC. Breaking it down to its basest form, it is a free cloud-based program that allows all your devices to sync notes, videos, and pictures. When you finish syncing all your notes, any time you take a picture, make a note, or add a recording (both voice and video, by the way), that note/picture/recording will be available across the rest of your devices. You’re connected to Evernote through a free account just like most social media, and in fact you’ll notice that Evernote seems pretty similar to most other social media.
Evernote Features
Evernote is actually more than a place to simply sync your notes. Evernote allows you to read, correct, highlight, and study your notes. If you highlight something important on your computer, when you find it on your phone, it will be highlighted there as well. Did I mention you can organize your notes by folders? That’s right, you don’t have thirty-seven recordings hanging out in one place that you have to keep up with; you can organize the recordings into “Notebooks”, Evernote’s folder structure.
Evernote is a free tool that should be utilized to its fullest extent in every student’s repertoire of tricks. Managing notes neatly, having the ability to modify those notes consistently with the ability to sync those notes across every device you choose allows you to have a consistent study experience while not having to copy and organize those files gives you more time to be you, that great student that everyone wants to be. Check out www.evernote.com or Evernote on the Play Store or App Store for more information.