Note taking Technologies
- Trinity supported Software
- Free to use software
- App's for smart & tablets
- Academic support advice & strategies
Supported Software
Listed below are a number of technologies that will allow you take notes effectively within a lecture environment and reduce that hectic feeling of trying to keep up with your notetaking:
Livescribe Pen
What starts on paper, doesn't have to stay there. Livescribe smartpens bring your words & ideas into your digital world. The pen lets you write digital notes using special paper and a pen with a tiny built-in infrared camera that tracks the nib's exact location on the page. Conveniently, this new pen uses a built-in Wi-Fi adaptor to communicate with your PC rather than a wired USB connection.
Online Help & training
Visit our training page to learn more about the Livescribe Pen training
Audio Note taker
Audio Notetaker offers a visual and interactive form of note taking one where audio, text and images are used to create truly comprehensive notes. Instead of the single stream of information you get with standard audio, Audio Notetaker splits your recording up into individual phrases and displays them on screen as a bar. You can then organise these bars by colour coding great sections and removing not so great sections.
30 day free trial available.
Online Help & training
Click this link to learn more about Audio Notetaker visit our training page
Digital Dictaphones
Students can use the digital dictaphone to record lectures, assignments and research information. Students have fuller control over the playback, they can pause and rewind much more easily than using a cassette player. This is useful for visual impaired students, those with dyslexia and learning difficulties. Digital dictaphones have the added attraction of being able to transfer recordings onto PC and even synchronise with some voice recognition software.
Online Help & training
Click this link to learn more about Audio Notetaker visit our training page
Free Resources
EverNote
Evernote makes almost every single "must-have apps" list because it does so much for free. There's also almost no limit on what you can store: photos, videos, emails, webpages, and documents.
To install evernote on you laptop or home desktop use this link - Evernote download
Apps for your smartphone or tablet
You can buy microphones attachments that will turn your iPhone into a digital dictaphone (see above) to record lecturers, notes etc.
Sound Note
SoundNote tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail.
While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundNote will jump right to that point in the audio.
SoundNote is perfect for students. If you ever fall asleep in class, don't worry SoundNote's got your back. Just tap what you wrote while you were awake, and SoundNote will play the audio to help you fill in the blanks.
Click this link for more information & to download - Sound Note info
Sonocent Recorder
Sonocent Recorder is the companion app to Sonocent Audio Notetaker for Mac and PC. Using the app on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you can capture high-quality recordings and annotate in real-time using colour markers, photos and text notes.
Capture high quality audio recordings, highlight important parts of your recording in real-time , Enhance your recordings with text and enhance your notes further by taking a photo of a presentation or maybe of a diagram.
Click this link for more information & to download - Sonocent Recorder
Noteability
Notability is so powerful that it will transform how you work: sketch ideas, annotate documents, sign contracts, complete worksheets, keep a journal, jot travel notes, teach a class, make a presentation and much more.
Click this link for more information & to download - Noteability
Audio Note
AudioNote combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful tool that will save you time while improving the quality of your notes. It's the perfect app for students or business.
Click this link for more information & to download -Audio Note
Cogi - voice recorder
Capture audio highlights of a lecture. Uses 15 sec buffer so when you realise this is an important part and tap ‘Rec’ it starts recording from 15 sec previously. Recording app designed to assist people who already take reasonably good paper notes!
Click this link for more information & to download -Cogi
Academic Support help
For further help and gaining strategies to help you take effective notes please view are academic support page which give you information on:
- How to use your lecture note effectively
- Strategies for taking notes in a lecture
- Introduction to the Cornell method of note-taking