Showing posts with label iPad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPad. Show all posts

2011/04/09

How to create hypermedia notes during your lectures!

There are some apps, which combine the features of a note taking and a voice recording app but in a very distinctive way. Specifically, they have the ability to continuously synchronize the recorded audio with your notes. As a result, each word acts as a link to the time point of the recorded audio at which it was written! Obviously this makes navigating a long lecture fast and easy and after a while you will start to appreciate the power of another kind of link!

Currently, I use "AudioNote" for taking my hypermedia notes mainly because there is a version of it both for iOS and Mac OS X. Consequently, I can read my notes and hear the synced audio in all my platforms. An other app with a somewhat more polished interface and richer organizational abilities is "Notability" but you can you use it only in your iPhone or your iPad.

2011/02/12

Some tools of the trade

I use the following hardware:
  • a MacBook Pro 17in
  • a MacMini (as a server for my wikis and my ebooks library)
  • an iPad
  • a Time Capsule
  • an iPhone 3G
  • several external hard drives (for backup)
  • a 27in LG monitor

In my academic workflow I use the following programs:
  • Skim: for reading papers and books (in pdf format)
  • Calibre: for organizing all my ebooks (read and unread)
  • DevonThink: for organizing everything that I have read
  • BibDesk: for reference management and automated bibliography creation
  • MediaWIki: for notes management
  • TextMate and LaTex: for writing my papers
  • AppleScript: for automating my workflow