Taking effective digital notes

Learn some digital tools to take notes.

More and more university students are choosing to take notes on a laptop or other digital device. Recently, as part of a GrowME project facilitated by Victoria University of Wellington’s Careers and Employment Team, a group of current students surveyed their friends and classmates to find out more about how they take notes digitally. Here you’ll find a list of tools for taking digital notes, as recommended by our students.

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OneNote

OneNote is essentially an electronic notebook for collecting, organizing and sharing digital information.

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Word

Due to its widespread familiarity, Word is an easy programme to access and use for note-taking.

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PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a programme which creates slideshows. Many lecturers use slides when giving their lectures.

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Google Docs

Google Docs is a web-based software programme offered by Google within its Google Drive service.