4 Best Ways to Digitalize Your Notes

Marc Prensky claimed that digital native children have different requirements when it comes to learning than the digital immigrants. If we take into consideration that the Millennials are the first generation of the digital natives and that they are born between 1980 and 2000, we can see that those are people that are in school or working right now. (Nielsen Norman Group, Kate Meyer, 2016) This further means that their way of taking notes may vary. Some may still take hand written notes, while others use other types of technology to do it. Either way, it is advisable to turn those written notes into digital format for easier sharing, browsing and even reading. Here are the best four ways to do it.

Scanning the Handwritten Notes

There are different types of scanners available today for those that want to turn their old notes into documents. You can choose a manual scanner or a flatbed ones and save the notes to your computer in different forms. If you take them in the form of JPEG or GIF, you may want to convert them further into the PDF file. Make sure that you use a scanner with automatic document feeder to make this long process easier and shorter. If your tablet or a phone have a decent camera, you may want to do this faster and take a snapshot of each page. While it may be faster, the result will probably not be as good as the scanned notes.

Conversion Software like OneNote

OneNote and similar software revolutionized the world of digital notes, because it can use the input in many forms, recognize the handwriting and turn the notes into their digital versions. These created notes can be edited, shared and browsed just like any other similar text format. Moreover, there is the option of uploading the notes to the cloud which makes them accessible from many different devices and a lot safer.

Taking Digital Notes

To avoid the whole conversion process altogether, it is advisable to get the gadgets and begin taking digital notes to begin with. You can type them and use the keyboard, but that takes away a bit from the entire note taking process. The much better way to do this is to use stylus and write, scribble and draw, just like you would on the paper, using the pen. It is worth investing in smart pen and paper because you will use it a lot if you are at college or you want to organize the notes from important meetings.

Sharing is Caring

Of course, everybody who ever went to school knows that notes are there to be compared and shared. With digitalized notes, you can share them with others and check out what other people wrote on the same subject. This is important for subjects like English because there are many interpretations possible on the same subjects. If you want the notes that reach Higher School Certificate level, your best bet is to find them online. HSC English notes are compiled online and they are easy to use and browse. Other subjects are available, as well, but you may want to add your notes, also.

Digitalized notes have exactly the same purpose as the hand written ones. Sharing them, browsing them and exchanging them is all a part of student socializing and helping each other. That part remains the same. Digitalization only means that this is now easier to do.

Dan Radak is a web hosting security professional with ten years of experience. He is a coauthor on several websites and regular contributor to BizzMark Blog. Currently, he is working with a number of companies in the field of online security, closely collaborating with a couple of e-commerce companies.