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Tired of taking notes on paper?
I dive into how I take notes using my 12.9 iPad Pro with my Apple pencil and magic keyboard and how I've been using the new iPadOS to optimise my note-taking and learning so you can too.
When I was studying medicine I took loads of notes on my old gen one iPad and also made a ton of handwritten notes as I'm pretty old school. Having something digital that could be used in lectures, on the wards and at home to centralise notes and studying was really helpful but the early iPad models had their limitations meaning I never really used them as much as I'd like. Fast forward to today where we have the apple pencil, M1 chips, XDR screens and millions of great learning apps and it's a completely different story but it can be tricky figuring out a workflow that works for you which is why I wanted to share mine.
#notes #ipad #notetaking
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0:00 - Intro
1:47 - iPad vs Handwritten Notes vs Typing Notes
5:46 - The iPad Pro 12.9 vs Other iPads For Note Taking
8:13 - Bonus: The Top iPad Note-Taking Apps
9:42 - How I Take Notes on iPad
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👨⚕️ Alex Young
Hey I'm Alex, I'm a surgeon and the founder and CEO of Virti and am obsessed with human performance, learning and productivity. I also write for Entrepreneur and Forbes and invest in early stage companies with a focus on education technology and health technology sectors.
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Tired of taking notes on paper?
I dive into how I take notes using my 12.9 iPad Pro with my Apple pencil and magic keyboard and how I've been using the new iPadOS to optimise my note-taking and learning so you can too.
When I was studying medicine I took loads of notes on my old gen one iPad and also made a ton of handwritten notes as I'm pretty old school. Having something digital that could be used in lectures, on the wards and at home to centralise notes and studying was really helpful but the early iPad models had their limitations meaning I never really used them as much as I'd like. Fast forward to today where we have the apple pencil, M1 chips, XDR screens and millions of great learning apps and it's a completely different story but it can be tricky figuring out a workflow that works for you which is why I wanted to share mine.
#notes #ipad #notetaking
// LEARN MORE
blog.alexanderfyoung.com/how-i-take-notes-on-my-ipad-pro-note-taking-in-medical-school-and-work-2022
// BLOG
🌍 blog.alexanderfyoung.com
// NEWSLETTER
📰 join.alexanderfyoung.com
// FOLLOW ME
@alexanderfyoung
🐦 twitter.com/alexanderfyoung
📸 instagram.com/alexanderfyoung
// MY BUSINESS
@VirtiLabs
🎮 virti.com
// CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:47 - iPad vs Handwritten Notes vs Typing Notes
5:46 - The iPad Pro 12.9 vs Other iPads For Note Taking
8:13 - Bonus: The Top iPad Note-Taking Apps
9:42 - How I Take Notes on iPad
//WHO I AM
👨⚕️ Alex Young
Hey I'm Alex, I'm a surgeon and the founder and CEO of Virti and am obsessed with human performance, learning and productivity. I also write for Entrepreneur and Forbes and invest in early stage companies with a focus on education technology and health technology sectors.
#alexyoung
// SOURCES
https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/papers/MuellerAndOppenheimer2014OnTakingNotesByHand.pdf
// MUSIC
🎵 epidemicsound.com/referral/q4zcfg
// EDITOR
@Mp3Charlie
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