Digital media and ebooks are taking the world by storm. If you walk into an average college classroom these day, most of the students are probably reading their books or taking notes digitally. While the top note taking apps may share quite a bit in common, certain features set the best apart.
Things to look for in a free note taking and ebook app.
1. Free collaboration tools online. Even if your app was not free, there should be some free additional services to get you to choose the paid app over the hundreds of free ones. The top note taking apps will give you your moneys worth by making it possible to share your notes with your classmates online. You should look for features like collaborative document editing and collaborative applications.
2. The option to buy digital textbooks. The cost of textbooks never seems to come down and the option to go digital has the potential to save everyone lots of money. If you are able to keep your digital notes and downloadable textbooks all in one convenient place, all the better.
3. If you decided to pursue a degree in the humanities, then you are going to need to buy lots of books. Save your back by picking one of the top note taking apps that doubles as an ebook apps. Why spend time switching between apps when you can have all your ebooks and notes together whenever you need them.
4. Do not pick a note taking app just because it happens to be free. The last thing you need when studying for finals is to find out that support for your free app has been abandoned and you have lost all you data. Sometimes spending a couple of dollars on a well known name can safe you hassle in the long run.
5 If you decide to go for a free one, make sure you try a bunch before classes start. Knowing whether an app has all the features you need before you are expected to take any notes is a time saver. You will miss out on some of the better features though.
This is pretty good info. I could have figured most of it out by myself. What I would have liked is a list of the best ones and which ones suck. that way I has to spend less time trying out free ones and could skip to the quality apps.
Can you really get apps that let you buy and download textbooks? can they really save you money? why would the digital copies cost less than the paper ones? is this like a kindle kind of thing? it sounds cool but it also sounds very complicated.
Can you really get apps that let you buy and download textbooks? can they really save you money? why would the digital copies cost less than the paper ones? is this like a kindle kind of thing? it sounds cool but it also sounds very complicated.
Can you really get apps that let you buy and download textbooks? can they really save you money? why would the digital copies cost less than the paper ones? is this like a kindle kind of thing? it sounds cool but it also sounds very complicated.
Can you really get apps that let you buy and download textbooks? can they really save you money? why would the digital copies cost less than the paper ones? is this like a kindle kind of thing? it sounds cool but it also sounds very complicated.