How to take better digital notes

[@paperlessmovement]

👀Watch Next: Best Note-Taking apps for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil 👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXTGhK2MqpinnZI

[@lkreinmiller-author]

As a very senior citizen, I love my iPad and I am very happy to learn about paperless. I especially love being able to write neatly on my iPad, because I did not grow up with a keyboard, even a typewriter keyboard, so handwriting is much faster for me. Even if I don’t refer back to a note, the act of writing it out by hand helps fix it in my brain. Using a keyboard doesn’t do this so much. You have helped tremendously with this.

[@paperlessmovement]

Awesome!! So happy it helps 🙌

[@SiaelAlves]

Wow. I will finish watching your video tomorrow. I have thought about digital notes 6 days ago, only 1 day before you publish your video. Since then, I have trained my calygraphy on my iPad. I am really interested in improving myself in this area. I love writing and digital writing is pretty new for me. Using my fingers and not the keyboard is a revolution for me. 😊🤗

[@paperlessmovement]

Awesome! Happy if you like it, Siael!

[@kz7115]

I am a business professional. Corporate sales. And I'm a fast typer. I bought a Remarkable 2 in part because I need the freedom to circle, write larger to emphasize what is important to the client, etc. Formatting in a way that stands out to me cannot be done quickly with typing. Sales calls aren't really that fast but I do need to emphasize what's important in creative ways. I'm now realizing I like the Remarkable for my personal life, when I want to chill without distractions and simplify with black and white and have that natural feel... But, I'm about to buy an iPad Pro so I can use colour and use the split screen for my daily to do lists, action items and my daily performance tracking to make sure I stay on task.

[@paperlessmovement]

Thanks so much for sharing those great insights! I can absolutely relate to this, and if you know where the long-term knowledge gets stored, the this is absolutely a great device. However, I know many who don't find their information once collected and don't use paper or reMarkable for emphazing what's important. This video is for those people to realize that there are many types of information we collect and we need to become mindful on where we store them to stay on top of the game.

[@RodneyClang]

What relevant content surfacing these real challenges. Thank you Tom!

[@jp102]

Anyone able to provide a summary for me of the recommended products and apps? Truly appreciate the well thought and thorough vid.. just ADHD brain having trouble absorbing anything even on the third time around.... The main takeaway I got was don't use the Remarkable, iPad is a better product. But I'm sure there was lots more haha.

[@DemetriPanici]

Digital note taking has truly organized my life a LOT in the past 2 years. Great stuff Tom

[@Shooter_gringo]

What device/app do you use? Thank you

[@LeoMTB_LIFE]

So you definitely focusing on remarkable which I personally don’t have an issue with I take toons of notes since I’m on the real state field I’ll have to make a video how I use my remarkable 2 I don’t have the subscription I do my daily logs and follow ups on my planers I got from Etsy so I have easy access to the dates and all the notes I have taken in the past without having a hard time like u pointed in your remarkable video , I can share any notes to any of my computers at work for faxing etc idk why people are having a hard time with it . I still have my iPad but definitely writing doesn’t feel the same . But again really good video is a good example we all have different experiences

[@Oldnose63]

Some of the meeting issues you describe can not be solved by having a “single devoted tool of truth” ( I’m not sure how you called it but I really like it). Good preparation of a meeting and “your tasks and responsibilities” is also important. In general a lot of time energy and motivation is lost there.

[@paperlessmovement]

100% agree! Single Source of Truth is just one part of the solution to improve team performance. Like you said, setting the right conventions (e.g. definitions of Priorities, what are Due Dates, SOPs and Meeting structure) and setting proper responsibilities (not individual people but functions and departments) is key and also part of the ICOR Mastery that I teach inside the PaperlessMovement membership www.paperlessmovement.com/join-inner-circle/#icor

[@doccomics8449]

I’m from egypt 🇪🇬 and i like your videos 👌

[@paperlessmovement]

I‘m from Germany 🇩🇪 and I like your comment 👌😁

[@davidhausler9612]

Hi What app do you recommend for note taking - mix of handwriting and typed. mostly handwritten, where you can link notes or part sections of the notes to groups/categories, generate tasks from notes and track and search notes.. I manage a system of 20 schools and so have lots of meetings covering all schools and then individually with each school, , but I want to go paperless but want to ensure i am being efficient and tracking action items, key dates, reminders, I also want to find a app to track contracts and when they are next due, reminders etc.. I was thinking Obsidian. I would appreciate your thoughts. re device, yet to purchase but was thinking a samsung galaxy tablet, as i have a Samsung s20 phone.

[@skybox-101]

Sir could you give me idea however to get my notes from the old noteverything app to the evernote? I have 250 folders total 3000 files?

[@Ddiakova]

Finally an absolutely fantastic video on notetaking! God bless KZbin algorithm for showing me your video! I am definitely not a paperless person (Bullet Journal lover here) but I am an Apple user and I was struggling with Notability for a while now. It seems it was a case of basics which I so conveniently forgot - Notability just isn't the right tool for my used case. I will be switching (or switching back) to Apple Notes now to take advantage of the very many shortcuts there are for it and it's 'shared brain'. Absolutely loved your video and I subscribed immediately. It's funny because back in my previous company I used to teach people how to take notes in OneNote and utilize it as their 'separate brain' for work-related notes/templates whatever.. And I seem to have wandered off the road myself. Life is funny. Happy new 2022 ahead Tom!

[@paperlessmovement]

Dear Dimana, I really appreciate your kind words and I am so happy that it was useful to you! Maybe you watch my latest video where I compare the handwriting note-taking apps in more detail and also talk about digital bullet journaling! You can watch it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXTGhK2MqpinnZI Let me know if you need any further help and you are more than welcome to join our community. We have more people inside the membership with the same background like you. :)

[@Ddiakova]

@@paperlessmovement thank you for the recommendation! I will definitely check the video out 🙏🏻

[@unusualpond]

Please help me. I am desperate to be able to copy text from books with Apple live text. When I paste the text into Apple notes, it inserts line breaks where there were lines in the book. There seems to be no way to resolve all those lines into a single paragraph. I am wary of moving to a new app, which will have other problems. Would prefer to stay within Apple notes because it will always be native. Any chance you know a trick? Many thanks.

[@deathbybro3t169]

Great video. Digital notes make such a great difference for me. Solid advice ;)

[@paperlessmovement]

Thank you! Happy that it’s useful to you 🙌

[@alpaydogan6820]

Hello everyone. I would like to ask that; Do you know any application that include the property of integration pdf annotations with mindmaps? Ofcourse I know Docear, but its interface is not useful and it does not have online version. Could you help me?

[@donschueler]

Look at LiquidText

[@gavel44]

Great job!

[@paperlessmovement]

Thanks Rhonda! 🙌

[@zabdielscoon3041]

Another interesting video. Be great if you were on Nebula too!

[@paperlessmovement]

Thanks for the kind feedback! I‘ll consider it 😁👍

[@bigT49A]

Great video - and another attempt for a YT comment ;)

[@paperlessmovement]

Yeah, it worked this time! Thanks Antony! 🙌

[@noobi8331]

Digital note taking makes meetings more personal compared to typing with laptop.

[@paperlessmovement]

I agree! Which is totally possible if people still have a Single Source of Truth they can work in. Also collaboration works great if people use shared Apple Notes or Keynote presentations, they can work in real-time together using their Apple Pencil.

[@jgojiz]

Does Samsung offer something similar?

[@shobhitarora3075]

Great Overview and great concepts!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@paperlessmovement]

Thank you 🙌

[@davidmicka4344]

I have also bought iPad + pencil mainly for paperless life. After a few months I have noticed I spent more time on youtube and procrastinate. IPad was mostly consuming device for me and I was not able to change this state with my will. Plus I am really tired of all "classic" displays (phone, tablet, notebook, tv). So I sold iPad and bought Onyx Boox Air just for reading, writting and learning. Yeah you could browse internet, you could even play games but I have not tried it yet because the e-ink so slooow against iOS on iPad. The slowness is the good part here because it helps me to focus only on books, writting and learning. It is some kind of meditation and "electronic detox" for me. I like that battery lasts forever, pencil does need to be charged and you can install RemNote and create a "second brain there". I still dislike the "slowness" but I hope I will get "used to it" someday.

[@paperlessmovement]

I partly understand you! Adding higher friction to install entertainment apps helps. This being said, you could also just install the apps for work on your iPad. If KZbin isn’t part of your research the why installing it? 🙂

[@davidmicka4344]

​@@paperlessmovement It is not only about youtube. You could also use email, sms, safari, photos, Netflix, .. I know that you could uninstall almost everything, turn off all notifications, hide all remaining icons. But would you buy iPad then? Maybe the e-ink display itself evokes the book much better and also creates "separation" similar to work/home place for me.

[@paperlessmovement]

​@@davidmicka4344 I understand you. However, the question remains, what is the utlimate goal you want to achieve takeing digital notes? If it is simply taking notes for brainstorming or using manual methods for organization and sticking to one device with Black and White. Then this is for you. If you need this information to get elsewhere or leveraged as a Knowledge Base, I still strongly believe an iPad is the better solution.

[@davidmicka4344]

@@paperlessmovement Main purpose is reading, note taking, brainstorming and saving results of the first three to RemNote. The AI for text recognition works pretty well here. I write all stuff by hand and then transform it to text and copy it to RemNote. But I still struggle with fine-editing in RemNote (keyboard input is slow). I could probably edit the text in RemNote on phone, notebook or other tablet instead. The process itself is still evolving based on my "discoveries". I know, iPad is capable of everything but the e-ink display is super great for reading. I guess everyone needs to find the best way for themself.

[@paperlessmovement]

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[@energysourcelove]

Nice to see you back making videos!

[@paperlessmovement]

Yes! 🙌

[@taniamacleod]

So day one is just for your personal journaling? And with all of the changes with apple notes, is there a way to take all of our Evernote notes and convert or import into apple notes? And stop using Evernote? I used that for 10 years,, and stopped using it about 2-3 years ago when I got an iPad with th e apple pen, and began writing notes in notable and Noteshelf… loved those. And used to replace my paper calendar… but there is a major missing piece with a digital planner… no reminders… I’ve found a course reaching how to sync Evernote, your google calendar and to do lists? So I am super curious about keeping Evernote bc of that?

[@paperlessmovement]

Be very careful switching tools (especially if you used them for 10 years!). You can export and import your notes from Evernote to Apple notes. However, those will no longer be searchable. You can actually sync Noteshelf with Evernote so you could have the best of both worlds if you like to use a Planner. Questions like yours we are discussing a lot in the Paperless Movement community. If you need more help, I am happy to welcome you there 😃👍

[@assistivetek]

I was wondering if you’ve tried digital pens (Livescribe or NEO Smartpens) and how they would integrate with your system?

[@paperlessmovement]

I tried a lot of alternatives for Apple Pencil. However, haven’t tested a Smartpen yet! Great idea and will look into this asap! 🙌

[@twosballer]

Great video Tom! Just signed up for your guide. Hope to talk with you soon!

[@paperlessmovement]

Awesome! Feel free to reach out to me anytime if you have any questions, Parker. I would love to welcome you inside the community to have a chat👍

[@SnowyOwlPrepper]

I like this video. Your thoughts are valuable and greatly appreciated. I will go to the links and see what more there is to learn.

[@paperlessmovement]

You are very welcome! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions 👍 Would love to welcome you inside the Paperless Movement community 🙌

[@dodger1x]

I wish Notion was better with Scribble. Specially when I use my IpadMini 6and I don’t have a keyboard or Mouse available.

[@paperlessmovement]

Good point! This would be awesome!

[@dodger1x]

@@paperlessmovement you can use Notion without a keyboard and mouse. And only use Touch and Scribble, BUT it’s not a pleasant experience and quite buggy. - There seems to be issues/bugs with activating Scribble. And it even kills touch after trying to use scribble. I often have to tap with the apple pencil for 10-30 seconds in the title! Textbox or page/block before It finally pulls out he Scribble menu and works. Also Notion on Ipad is quite buggy with touch. You can’t resize collums without a mouse. And there is just alot of misbehaving. Typing the / command and tapping the block option with touch doesn’t work. You have to write and scroll down with the arrows on the keyboard and hit enter to get the block you choose. And one of the last annoying things is that you get pulled into page view when trying to add a new entry to a database. On the desktop you can write the title of the entry directly in the database. Which means you can add multiple entries more quickly on desktop than ipad. All of this and more just makes the Notion app a really bad experience on the Ipad. Which is to bad since it has so much potential

[@paperlessmovement]

@@dodger1x thanks for sharing these details 🙌 At least Scribble works to a certain extent in Notion. Neither in Microsoft Word nor in Google Docs, Scribble works yet.

[@antoniodominion9892]

Your video title is totally misleading! I watched almost all of your video and did not obtain any information that was helpful to me in taking better notes. Next time you go to post a video please think carefully about the title you wish to give it and how accurate it is, rather than just trying to sell subscriptions to your whatever, what the viewer is actually going to get out of the video that you are posting at that moment. ~Antonio Dominion

[@paperlessmovement]

Thanks. I am sorry to read this feedback. Especially because I saw a very positive feedback from you before. In order to take better notes, these are the basic understandings one should have to know where to place information to have effective notes. With this video I answered recurring questions I received in three years coaching. If this doesn’t apply to you, then you seem to be much more experienced than many other people. What is it that you would have expected that would help you to take better notes? Methods like Zettlekasten or Bullet Journaling?