By the way, you can switch to a traditional eraser on both apps if this doesn’t interest you.Īnother amazing feature is the lasso tool. So, on that economics graph, I was able to erase the whole y-axis with just one click instead of having to erase across its whole length. OneNote and Goodnotes both have a “stroke” eraser, which is a tool that erases whole strokes instead of just the point where the eraser touches.
Second, it is easier to correct mistakes and stay neat. Even if you’re not into aesthetic notes, having highlighters, different colors and different thicknesses at your disposal makes it easier to draw the diagrams and conceptual models that many classes require. With just a click, you can switch between highlighters and pens and even change the thickness of the pen. If a traditional student chooses to color code their notes, they have to bring a pencil case and waste time fumbling with it to find a highlighter or colored pen. But regardless of the app, using an iPad to take notes benefits any student.įirst of all, it is easier to make your notes visually appealing. Personally, I use a combination of OneNote, a free Microsoft notes app, and Goodnotes, a similar app that goes for about $9 on the Apple App Store. Until you get one, you don’t realize how much easier your life is. As someone who has taken notes on an iPad for four years, I cannot fully describe the positive impact that it has had on my education.
Like the vast majority of other students on campus, my friend uses a notebook and pencil. My friend labored to find his eraser and carefully erased it in his notebook.
I was nearing the finish line, collaborating with a friend on one of the last questions, when we realized we had incorrectly drawn a graph. Last week, I was crammed in a conference room in Chancellor’s Hall for office hours, frantically completing an economics problem set before the deadline in an hour. Contact him at views expressed in this article are the author’s own. He is a proud member of the William and Mary Debate Society. John Powers ’26 is a prospective Public Policy major who hails from Brooklyn, New York.
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