{"id":835,"date":"2019-12-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2019-12-12T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:05:29","slug":"take-notes-with-your-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/take-notes-with-your-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Take notes with your iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve got one of those 12\u201d iPad Pros. I bought it for work so I could take notes and keep all my shit in one place. It has been about a year, and it is working as I hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnotes.com\/\">GoodNotes<\/a> for all my note taking. I like GoodNotes for a few reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All my notes are in one place.<\/li><li>Handwriting recognition is magical. I have really lousy handwriting and GoodNotes doesn\u2019t care. I can search for a word or phrase and >95% of the time I can find what I\u2019m looking for within a couple of seconds. Try that with your Moleskine.<\/li><li>Though it\u2019s a digital medium, the Bullet Journal method works great.<\/li><li>Good options for organization. I can make folders and sub folders, I can make subject-specific \u201cnotebooks\u201d, or individual pages. I can import photos and PDFs and annotate them as needed.<\/li><li>Backups. I\u2019ve left hardcopy notebooks on the roof of my car more than once, never to recover them. GoodNotes allows me to backup all my stuff, and if I ever lose the iPad, I\u2019ll be able to grab a new one, download my data, and I\u2019ll be back in business.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people dislike the feeling of \u201cwriting\u201d on glass with a plastic pencil thing. I am one of those people, so I got a textured screen protector to make the feeling more paper-like. It\u2019s not perfect, but I\u2019ve adapted and it doesn\u2019t bother me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you decide to give this a try, here\u2019s one more little trick that probably works best if you have an iPhone. If you\u2019re in a conference session or any meeting where there are paper handouts, just use your phone to snap a photo of the handout, or even the presentation on screen. Then use Airdrop to discreetly send the image to your iPad and into GoodNotes for annotation. It\u2019s a super quick process and saves you the dorkiness of holding a huge iPad in front of your face to take a photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ok, one more quick trick. You can write really tiny notes in narrow margins or between lines of text by zooming way in and selecting a very thin pen tip.  This comes in helpful all the time, and of course the tiny notes are searchable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve got one of those 12\u201d iPad Pros. I bought it for work so I could take notes and keep all my shit in one place. It has been about a year, and it is working as I hoped. I use GoodNotes for all my note taking. 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