#good notes app

Soooo I have been doing some experimentation and switched into the dark templates! Turns out I’m very much pleased as to how my notes look although it takes longer for me to finish it. I find the Liver very interesting and have been overstudying it, I think?

4.16.19 🌿 anatomy & physiology

I’m studying for my anatomy test on the digestive system.

I do a couple things to study/learn material for my class:

• During the week we take notes in class, i read the book and takes notes on it at home on my IPad

• I review the slideshow from class in chucks a couple days before so I don’t have to study everything at once. I also star things I don’t know in a different color than my notes & erase it after I know it.

• I download our study guide on my IPad to practice labeling and take a practice quiz my teacher has

A note on good note 

If you plan on printing from the good notes app and you have highlighted in your document, please be aware that the colour of the highlighter will come out a lot darker than it appears on your device. 

Digital notes: Go Big or Go Home

I stepped into medschool throwing off the primitive ways of note-taking.

Buying an iPad seemed to be a huge take-off since I am the type of learner that easily gets distracted. My first weeks in, I actually underwent an adjustment period where I had to construct a new study habit.I had always been a lover of stationary notes, highlighters and colored brush pens. Seeing a bookstore nearby triggers chemical rushes— I JUST HAD TO BUY ALL THE GOOD COLORED PENS AND HIGHLIGHTERS.

Upgrading into digital note-taking was the best decision. I’ll give you reasons why as I elaborate further into my experience.

I saved the time of printing my notes. I didn’t need to worry about an uncooperative jammed printer. Some of the lessons in medschool can run up to 25 pages and in a week, you get almost 10 lessons or more.

The burden of carrying plenty of kilograms of books had been taken off my shoulder.

Applications like GoodNotes allow you to explore your creativity with numerous templates ranging from bullet, grid or lined papers. It also allows you to create planners and the like eliminating the need to collect stickers for a Starbucks planner (Lol, Christmas season is totally in)

You can save a lot of bucks from buying rims of bondpapers, highlighters and pens because *drumroll* they’re all in the same app!

Imagine this too—all the notes and books are in one tablet—there is no need for you to carry on the weight of having in your backpack.

The new update of iPads have allowed multitasking functions which is a really powerful upgrade.

So if you had this immense need for saving time, this is the sign.

I just have to clarify though, this is not entirely for everyone because some feel that the “paper feel” is part of their study habit.

Haloooo! And I am back after almost 2 weeks of mental break! 😌 I have been away for some time and I promise I will reply to each of you beautiful humans. It’s application season for medicine schools and I am here to cut your anxiety. I promise I’ll reply to you all one by one. A little busy this week because our professor rushed our exams early and set a very shocking deadline to the metabolic map requirement. After this, I am a free woman! (Well at least, for a month) 🤔

For the mean time, to all ye GoodNotes lovers out there, I present to thee the palette of June (well, according to my taste and feels for this month). It’s a little warmth for the dark times that have been surrounding us lately especially with the BLM. We are all in dire need of a little brightness in the room so here’s a palette that you could use to do some highlighting and marking. I shall post a palette inspiration every month so as to add some content into my funny blog 🤡