notetaking in 2012 (amusing photo)

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 22, 2012 at 07:19 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
>The photo will only turn into an actual note if it
>becomes embedded into a meaningful system and some kind of a link is
>established between the digital image and the photographer’s mind
>(through a note-taking software, e.g. by being able to retrieve the note
>and situate it in relation to other notes in the system).

That’s part of the Evernote logic. With a smartphone, you can take the photo straight from within Evernote and give it a relevant title. The name of the class should be enough. Class + date of note are sufficient to classify the photo. And if the text is in a language supported by Evernote, words from the whiteboard will be OCR’d and indexed—and this works surprisingly well. All in all, much better than the average student’s notes.

Of course, the ideal would be for one to go through the photo notes the same day and add any relevant annotation. This would help both to better remember the content, and to be able to make sense of it in the future.