Why Students Shouldn't Buy iPads

[@elizabethfilips]

Hiya everyone! As a massive ex-iPad-notetaking fan, I have a lot of notes I made for medicine - if you would like to download the PDFs (for free) check them out (link below) - there's one for Immunology and one for Anatomy. I'm really not sure why so many people have asked me for them, there's much better resources out there! But I do really hope they help 💙 www.elizabethfilips.com/studynotes

[@jeetuverma132]

You are beautiful.

[@nikhilsajwan6028]

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[@elifoney306]

OMG These are amazing notes I just checked them!! U are the best. This is the first video of u that I've watched and I'm gonna subscribe u right now. Thanks a lot

[@jeetuverma132]

@@nikhilsajwan6028 😂😂😂😂🤦🤦🤦 nice one

[@nikhilkharate9262]

Which macbook do you use?

[@miggywiggy]

For a lot of science-heavy courses, I think having the ability to take notes free-handedly is just irreplaceable. Writing stuff down also helps with recall.

[@MeOfcourse12]

Exactly! For mathematics-intensive classes, typing just does not seem realistic. But she does make good points.

[@MyLifeInTheDesert]

There have been studies that back up your comment-I agree.

[@Fidder492]

Yes, and even better if you delay it and/or do it in the form of mindmaps or visuals rather than text as it activates other parts of your brain allowing you to consolidate more and possibly understand it at an initially deeper level. Which thus lessens the amount of spaced repetitions (and time) you’ll have to do to achieve the same level of retention as it were otherwise!

[@TheJanaRina]

Personally, I write to slow to do that but completely agree that hand writing helps so much with memorising and recalling

[@hazyproduct1692]

@@MeOfcourse12 Paper.

[@chiaracernoia9992]

As a physics major I wouldn’t even consider taking notes on a laptop, it would just be impossible, my notes are more formulas and equations than actual words. I feel like every note-taking/study tips video I come across are from people who study medicine/chemistry/biology lol, math-based courses are on a totally different level and so different, would like to see more variety on KZbin

[@martinsauer8856]

Take your LaTeX skills to a new level

[@MegaMar20]

We have many calculations, graphs, dervivations etc in medicine, but our professors, who almost always are also practicing doctors besides being educators and researchers, they expect us to understand all derivations, mathematical equations and relations, graphs etc in our free time. You will never see a medical professor deriving, integrating, differentiating a mathematical equation/relation on the blackboard, at most they will show us some graphs and conclusions of the recent studies and their biostatistical weaknesses. Our classes are strictly anecdotes and their experiences to impress upon broader concepts of the topic. Minutia are already in the books, but these anecdotes and experiences aren't. And still there's always out of time to go through all the relevant points. We hardly have lectures, these are mostly discussions and students attending them are supposed to come prepared with firm grasp on current practices, mathematics and statistics of the topic that will be discussed. So even though i hate to admit it but medical education in the time of pandemic, is much more effective with screen shots, and only writing down take home points. And after the second year of medical school, it's the students who have to take classes and seminars besides their ward and emergency duties, after which they will be grilled by the expert panel. Medical education is very different from arts, engineering, law, accountancy, basic sciences like physics, chemistry and maths. Capturing their experiences and findings are much more important so screenshots of graphs and case photos help, handwriting very inefficient way of capturing information and data, more so if it is coming too fast, it's more useful as a tool to digest it and then organize it as knowledge, by linking blocks of recorded information with understood concepts.

[@MegaMar20]

@@martinsauer8856 i think using a pen on an un ending Onenote sheet would still be faster.

[@ReactIonGlobal]

@@martinsauer8856 Agree!

[@ReactIonGlobal]

I’m at the point where I end up writing latex code (accidentally) on my test papers. And it’s not a big hassle for me personally given the advantages of digital notes and flash cards

[@livem7678]

As a medical student I couldn't imagine not using an iPad. I completely stopped using a laptop. You just can't draw a quick chemical structures or type a biophysics formulas on a laptop.

[@deidrerobinson8007]

It’s funny how KZbin recommended this to me the day after I bought my iPad Air

[@elizabethfilips]

got to love the universe 😂

[@blackqueen7226]

You can still use it I use both my iPad and my MacBook

[@wilburtmoreno469]

same

[@adilkhan3582]

Haha same here

[@blackqueen7226]

You should still keep it find out what works for you because what works for her might not work for you

[@sarahs-mc7hi]

Me watching this on the ipad that i bought before a week :

[@july3817]

The funny thing is that I can do most things you mentioned with my iPad as well. Buying a MacBook wasn’t in my price range so I got an iPad and a Keyboard. I use notion on my iPad to take notes of the books I’m reading and I’m using GoodNotes for the lecture notes. I do have to say that I didn’t try it while having online school, but most of the specific things you mentioned are possible in GoodNotes. You can use the lasso tool to copy or move everything around, and you can open two documents in a split screen view. Sure, opening multiple tabs while having a smaller screen isn’t as easy, but I hope we won’t have online lectures for ever. In class, I usually have GoodNotes Open and if I have to look things up, I just quickly open google. This is not meant to be hate or anything. I just wanted to mention that some things are still possible if you have an iPad and most of these reasons only really apply if you have a laptop or computer.

[@molkala2084]

Do you mind telling which Ipad you have?

[@july3817]

@@molkala2084 I have the Ipad 8. generation. But I should mention that I actually did get a macbook since then. I still use my Ipad in school to write notes, but I do use my macbook for most of the stuff that involves typing.

[@jayoils123]

@@july3817 I use my iPad 8 for everything

[@ebenezerjaydenmugunga6945]

I have been experimenting with this and it make sense there is no need of handwriting notes unless u are doing math !! The point is active recall sorts everything out perfectly!!

[@asherwade]

Is Active Recall an app-?, ...and is it only iOS, or Windows' and/or Android-? Thanking you in advance.

[@melaninkind8783]

@@asherwade active recall is a learning method

[@Everyyoueverymiau]

Not only if you’re doing math. I used handwritten annotation in biology because there were just so many pictures that I needed to scribble into

[@ellieberger9639]

For me the way I study is rewriting my notes and having it handwritten is really helpful

[@blackaccel]

@@melaninkind8783 Why is laptop better for active recall?

[@faisalbaig3634]

Honestly, I think it depends on which program you are in. I would still use an Ipad. Our teachers post the slides in advance on the school website. I download them before the lecture and take notes directly on them. Plus there is a lot of graphs and problem-solving in my program (engineering), which is easier to do on an Ipad.

[@br5632]

And when I went to theatre school the iPad was so useful. You'd get scripts with minimal notice and I never had to sprint to the library to print like everyone else. And I could annotate and highlight right away, this was awhile ago with the iPad 2.

[@harivag30]

Yes exactly for non medical students its about practice and solving and using numbers and variables by typing or even for computer science where maths is a must which again needs to be solved

[@AHA-kv6sm]

To some extent I agree with you; however, if you're reviewing documents such as PDFs, a tablet with a pen is much more comfortable. Using a pen just releases the stress.

[@medstuff9421]

I've had the opposite experience as a medical student. I think, it depends upon from person to person. I owned a laptop in the 1st year of medicine, it was timetaking for me to switch it on and off everytime and even the charging process seemed difficult. Couldn't read while falling asleep, couldn't take it to places. With Ipad I use split screen when I need to multitask (video lectures on one side, and collanotes on the otherside mainly in landscape view) while using collanotes, I import pdfs/books/notes and add points I think is relevant. Moreover diagrams are much better with the apple pencil.

[@ChristinaAaliyah]

Laptops are definitely the way to go in med school! After a term of handwriting I had to make the switch 😭

[@mehdikadiri5438]

You can type on an iPad too

[@mondirsaouab8180]

@@mehdikadiri5438 but you type faster on a macbook

[@emperorpalpatine5559]

@@mondirsaouab8180 Just get an ipad keyboard.. still cheaper than a mac..

[@tempestandacomputer6951]

I'd like to point out that notetaking varies depending on major. Us engineering majors need a stylus or pen way more than other majors that don't need to do math, diagrams, tables, etc. on the fly. I'm not sure the iPad is worth the money, but an engineer definitely won't take as effective notes purely by typing.

[@winnief3661]

Sounds like your issue wasn’t the iPad but the software. You can also type on an iPad and can screenshot without having to save them in photos.

[@stanibanani]

exactly

[@fatimajameel1357]

how do you screenshot like that?

[@maram7886]

@@fatimajameel1357 when you take the screenshot save it in files,,

[@redmartianclouds1006]

@@fatimajameel1357 with Apple Pencil or the buttons

[@elmervent8645]

Yes, you can even just immediately share the screenshot to the note-taking app or wherever. It could be a matter of not knowing all the shortcuts and features of an iPad. Because I didn’t hear her mention anything that couldn’t also be done on an iPad.

[@mikaylabaradat]

Honestly, I disagree! As a biology major who used the notebook/laptop combo for my first 3 years and then an iPad for my 4th year, I found using an iPad to be much more helpful and intuitive in regards to taking notes. Being able to download lecture slides in advance and mark them up saved me SO much writing/typing time. Also, taking notes on a laptop when you're taking classes that involve math/formulas/reactions/etc. is incredibly difficult. I used GoodNotes on my iPad and found it much easier to navigate than any note-taking app on my laptop.

[@faithk9928]

Do you have 11inch or 12.9 inch?

[@aleah3168]

I use my iPad for notes but use my computer for major essays/projects, there are just some things an iPad can’t do like a computer

[@danielnguyen7587]

I agree with every point you said. I was a religious iPad user for the first four years of my university and switched to laptop only in medical school. It’s been so much more better to put my notes into anki cards immediately after lecture, rather than having to go through so many hoops with an iPad

[@elizabethfilips]

Yesss 💪💪

[@sakhawatrahman4961]

Yeah you can't get the full version of anki on an iPad.

[@ssp13087]

Use android, its better than both

[@studyism]

This is such a fresh perspective vs a lot of KZbin content that promotes iPads as a must for med school 😭 Thankyou!!

[@thepretender2878]

Writing helps you remenber things easier that is scienfically proven.

[@acep9234]

But also wastes more time

[@kathakirtan689]

@@acep9234 😘

[@mathewsgeorge]

Came to this late. Thanks so much for this truth. There's such a number of youtubers who make one think that without an ipad and goodnotes/notablity you are missing out on academic achievement. This makes so much sense. Gratitude for putting this out there

[@Supplychainpapi]

I disagree. The ipad was 100% worth the investment for me.

[@kad.k1]

PRO TIP for taking a screenshot on mac : Press the control button in addition to the shift+cmd+4 combination and your screenshot will be COPIED as if you copied a text and then you can simply paste it! ;) makes the whole process much smoother and with less friction. good luck!

[@mathewsgeorge]

Thank you so much!!

[@kad.k1]

@@mathewsgeorge your welcome!

[@pooploops]

I think it's really dependent on your area of study or what you primarily do. I work with a lot of academic research and its really, really advantageous to use an iPad to markup PDFs and things of that nature. Makes it very convenient to send back and forth to people you're working on a paper with.

[@humanfirst11]

This is so strange to me being born and brought up in India. I can't really imagine taking notes on any sort of electronic device, it has to be pen and paper. It's a much more deeper connection to me immediately to write down something, it carves in my memory better. How do you write exams? Those are also on Mac or PC? Without practice, the writing would be very slow and handwriting would be so bad as well.

[@artbyvru]

Agree! Recently, I am watching this trend of people (who can afford iPad) taking notes on iPads and I just think to myself "Is this some kind of western influence to take notes on electronic devices?" when clearly our school system does not encourage electronic devices. The schools outside India permit these devices in class.

[@blanca339]

@@artbyvru I am from Spain and we also take notes on paper, with really few exceptions. I went to school in the UK and back then everybody took notes on paper too, I think it’s more of a university thing in the UK :)

[@matthewdavis9437]

@@artbyvru If they're still physically writing down the notes (something you can do on the iPad), what difference does it make if they're taking them on a tablet vs a piece of paper besides how it feels? It even saves a lot of paper. Problems arise mainly when you are trying to exclusively type your notes instead of writing them by hand. If your school wouldn't permit such a device, I think that is a problem. Not a thing to be proud of.

[@artbyvru]

@@matthewdavis9437 Well by your name I presume you don't live in India so cleaely you don't know the system here. We don't have any electronic devices permitted in school and because the cost of iPad is insanely high as per the exchange rate here it is not something everyone can afford. So taking notes on paper in the school but then buying an iPad just because you saw that online and rewriting the already handwritten notes on the iPad when you get home is nonsensical. Also to clarify I'm talking about school. I topped my classes in school so I know that there is no need for excessive organisation of notes. We have different physical notebooks nd they are more than enough - if that's your argument. In college this may be different. P. S. I am not judging if having electronic devices are a problem or not. Just stating that it is not mandatory and not needed at all. Having devices in school would be a problem for me. Students need to concentrate in school and not check their phones every 5 minutes.

[@anelenav]

As a North American student who used to write notes only by hand, the main advantage to having an electronic note-taking device is that almost all my teachers gave pdfs for each lesson. These pdfs are often incredibly long (75+ pages) and are difficult and wastful to print out. Also, with an iPad I would have ended up saving so much more time and energy actively listening in class instead of franctically recopying what was already written in the pdf without fully understanding it. I definitely would have had a much easier time in my organic chemistry class (and gotten a better grade) if I used a tablet. So many of you in the comments are right, this is a result of western influence, and it is a financial privilege to be able to consider that note-taking option. Oh and the writing slowly on paper comment made me laugh bc most ppl still write by hand, just on a screen. I've rarely seen students type down their notes on a laptop or got really annoyed by the typing sounds during the rare times they did :P

[@mankinddevilment]

All of this can be done on an I pad and u have that option of writing stuff down just in case you need to ! Making diagrams and other things might take lesser time when done by hand !

[@crosswhite17]

I agree, and with screen recording in the iPad you can record the whole zoom lecture to watch again if you need to.

[@winnief3661]

@Elizabeth Filips You can just use a Bluetooth keyboard (and mouse) with your iPad.

[@addy6632]

For the research on the spot issue, one can now open two screens at once, so you can split screen ti a browser. As someone mentioned previously also as a physics major, the iPad is life changing, especially when you use both your computer and iPad together for lessons, however I do see how it could be annoying for medicine.

[@donschueler]

There are a lot of medical students here on youtube who advocate not taking notes at all..many put more energy into capturing key items into flashcards and some reformulate concepts into more visual models like mind maps etc. I agree with many here that it probably "depends"...on the are of study, personal style etc. However, you do bring up some interesting points. One issue I have always had is the lack of legibility of my own handwriting (self encrypted HA). I do believe that graphical summary and markup can be helpful.

[@matthewdavis9437]

I am very early on in the video at this point, but you said you switched from writing notes on your iPad to taking laptop notes. Physically writing your notes will help with memorization. Typing your notes is proven to have a negative impact on memorization. You can, reasonably quickly, take full screenshots from the iPad itself instead of taking a pic using your phone, etc. I think you made the switch too soon rather than learning the tool you had at hand. But hey, whatever works for you.

[@cenk82]

Both the Air version, and now selling it after not touching it 2 years. Laptop + Desktop are more than enough for me!

[@neldormiveglia1312]

I think the iPad has it's pros and cons. I've actually gone through most of law school with an old iPad Air and a laptop case, which was the laptop-ized version of an iPad before the iPad Pro was a thing lmao. It was okay, I liked it because it was really portable but the os had it's limitations (some of which have been overcome with the creation of the pro line, of course! but others are still there, inherent to the fact that it's still an iPadOS). When I retired that iPad, I was in this one predicament: should I buy a MacBook Pro/air or an iPad Pro? Pricepoint wise they were all pretty similar (and steep) so I was willing to spend for either of the three. I ended up buying a MacBook and I stand by that choice. I've been tempted to buy an iPad every now and then but I think it's more a whim kind of thing. I think you should consider a few things: - Is an iPad going to make you more prone to do work on it? Are you going to enjoy it more? If you enjoy it, it'll totally boost your productivity and will only end up with good things like engaging more in class. - What kind of work do you need to do? Is a laptop going to be more stable for you? Or do you think you'd like the versatility of an iPad? - Are you going to want to use an external monitor? (I do, and it's the best 300 bucks I've spent in a while. Makes doing homework/preparing documents for work SO MUCH EASIER AND COMFORTABLE). My solution? I bought the MacBook Pro first and foremost and then I got a rocketbook notebook (for taking notes in class and random little notes). 1) The MacBook works fantastic for my needs and I do genuinely like the fact that it's not an iPad (because I think I personally view the iPad as more of a fun time item instead of work lmao, idk, maybe it's silly). 2) The rocketbook notebook, on the other side, has helped me reduce my paper usage by a lot and it also makes taking notes a lot more fun to me (and has removed the amount of clutter I was accumulating).

[@AndreaGonzalez-gq3jo]

i would just like to say that using REM note has changed my life. seriously, it’s already got the bullet point system that i’ve been using for my handwritten notes for AGES, plus it creates flash cards directly from your notes. For me, it’s the perfect hybrid between Notion and Anki with a few nice add ons like cross referencing and REMs.

[@t6hp]

Oh wow, thank you for the tip!

[@complex952]

Is it free? I use Anki but the price on mobile is a huge turn off to me :(

[@AndreaGonzalez-gq3jo]

@@complex952 it is! you have to pay for some extra features like graph view and image occlusion, but the base is excellent.

[@Jezelf14]

wow, the stars must've aligned really well for you. My professors go at 2x speed during calls, idk if I'm alone in this, but I can't understand shit.

[@sacdaabdurhman]

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” Sharing some positivity with ya all

[@mr.hossain2129]

I have been using my laptop as principal note maker. But nowadays, I think hand notes are much more effective. And that's why i bought it a few hours ago and KZbin recommended it now. What a wonderful algorithm!

[@Naveedannoorlord]

So basically I should wait to see how the first few semesters of my CS grad curriculum go before I invest in an iPad. Gotta separate my materialistic desire from need 😂

[@aishwaryathadiparthi4798]

lmao same i’m an incoming cs student. just bought a new macbook pro so i don’t think i can beg my parents for an ipad rn

[@Naveedannoorlord]

@@aishwaryathadiparthi4798 should have gotten a MacBook Air and slip in the iPad. MacBook Air m1 is more than enough for CS students according to numerous reviews I saw

[@xenoncs2141]

I’m a cs student and have both a laptop and an ipad, I use ipad for youtube and stuff like KZbin since I like portability, I use ipad for quick studies and studies that doesn’t require coding, when I do serious studies I always use my laptop, when you get a job being in the cs field you wont use an ipad but a laptop or a desktop pc, I recommend a laptop and only go for an ipad when you can afford it and still be financially stable after the purchase

[@johanna4456]

I feel dumb why did I always use command shift 3? 😂😂😂

[@MysticDivinerLJ]

I think it depends on your major. As a (pre law) criminal justice and sociology major w/ ADHD using a iPad AND a laptop is essential for me.

[@xx-eo1xw]

I'd say it depends on what you study. As an engineering student, it would be counterproductive for me to note down derivations using my MacBook. I will say however, you really don't need the latest iPad on the market. I use one of the first versions to come out with Apple Pen compatibility and it serves me just fine.

[@Isabel-hl1jy]

iPads are so good studying engineering. I have pages of handwritten maths/equations examples and lecture notes that I can annotate. I usually watch prerecorded lectures on my laptop and annotate the slides on my ipad.

[@liliwhite585]

yesss i agree! i’m an a-level student personally (so not quite the same as in uni lol, much less work but i think still somewhat relevant), and i use my laptop for eVERYTHING, i do use my ipad too, but not for notes, it just doesn’t work for notes for me, and i couldn’t use it as a laptop substitute and type my notes either (although i have the 2018 ipad tbf). i do use it a lot though don’t get me wrong - i use it daily for online school work, mostly just questions and stuff, and it’s very helpful, but totally not necessary at all!

[@Pameliux23]

I also just realized how more productive with my labtop than with the iPad to study but I still want to give the iPad an exclusive and special use. Ideas no what your iPad excels?

[@liliwhite585]

@@Pameliux23 personally i find it useful for when you are doing practice questions, especially for maths, but i take a-level bio, chem and maths and use it for questions for all three! that’s honestly the main purpose i use it for.

[@quxx807]

Got here from Ali’s story. Glad I found you gurll.....cuz u r just awesome!!!

[@GoodMorningButch]

You're thinking exclusively about what is most efficient, fastest, most practical, most logical. Some people just enjoy writing their notes. Not everything is a rat race.

[@owo8937]

Definitely 🙌

[@M00niE_k]

isnt that capitalism? do u think people ENJOY going to university?

[@maxmustermann6726]

@@M00niE_k some do

[@owo8937]

@@M00niE_k to each their own? some love the structured uni life while some don't

[@moiraohara]

And the process of taking notes by writing them helps me memorizing easier

[@kleashabanaj6211]

10 years ago I had the pleasure to learn from your mom, and now I have the pleasure to learn from you😊🥰

[@josephrajasehar9761]

I’m an iPad user since the lockdown probably after watching this video I do feel a laptop or MacBook for my choose would be more productive! Thanks for the video 😃 Very much helpful 👌

[@meg9740]

Informative, genuine, charming, knowledgeable, good vibe and doesn’t fill the video with unnecessary details. Please keep it the good work... I can’t wait for the next video. With love from Finland

[@ohhiguy]

08:38 "Even though no one ask for that video..." Well, I was going to ask. So thank you. And BTW you won me over, and I am now subscribed. Your frank, honest and transparent way of communicating is such an attraction. Great video.

[@elizabethfilips]

Awh thank you so much!!!

[@bunniiswrld]

your feelings are completely valid but as a graphic design student and ipad is definitely a must have for on the go edits and designs but i may be a bit biased as my professor recommended one

[@IsabellaBoyne]

This video made me feel so much better about not buying an iPad! I see so many people online with an iPad and it kind of makes you feel like you need one even if you don't. Even though I do a humanities degree, if I do need to annotate my readings, I prefer printing things out anyway

[@elizabethfilips]

Thank you Isabella!!

[@noortaiyeba1068]

Annotating on the iPads is so much easier you do not have to have bunch of highlighters and pencils. You don't have to have bunch of papers. Easier to find readings.

[@noortaiyeba1068]

@@darthvader1793 not a requirement but for readings and slides its so much easier to annotate on iPad than print 100s of pages and flipping. its not magically gonna increase your grade but will definitely make your life a little easier

[@lvseka]

Honestly, there's just something productive about writing simple notes on a piece of paper while studying. I even find it better to just simply print all slides given to me rather than consuming them from a screen, but maybe this is all because I am heavily visual and in a predominantly visual field.

[@jayoils123]

Lol so true people just over complicating small issues that’s why the academic iq is so low nowadays because people or not relying on the traditional method the way knowledge was preserve in ones memory rather they rely on things that aren’t human and that can have malfunction problems

[@sparklight0964]

I’d rather not use that much paper personally when I could download slides and write on them using the Apple Pencil with the iPad plus it’s light weight and easy to carry around

[@thatswhatshesaid42069]

I really thought at first that it would be a generic "being different than the crowd" type of video but you really had some valid points that i personally have come across in the past.

[@elizabethfilips]

Oh thank you so much!

[@papl20]

Thank you so much for saying that handwriting is not necessary. I started taking notes on my computer since the second year of university and my grades got better and better. I take too long writing things by hand and there's absolutely no reason for that.

[@doctorslounge4001]

Heyy ! I’m a general surgeon 2nd year resident ! I’d suggest ipad for every student possible ! It worked for me ! Depends on how you use it ! Especially for medical students having that extra edge of Apple Pencil functionality will make a huge difference!

[@Ocalamram]

Girl, with all due respect, I think the problem was not the iPad, but you who did not know how to use it completely. Everything you mention that you can do on the computer, on the iPad can be done much faster and in addition write notes instantly, including other possibilities, such as taking a photo of an example that the teacher or lecturer does at the moment on a blackboard, without having to take out the cell phone. I'm just saying 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@GlennLopez]

Exactly. The only thing you can’t do on an ipad is run x86 x64 programs like Fusion 360 or Matlab or AutoCAD. Even then, they have apps like Shadow PC app or Jump desktop that lets you have a windows pc or macOS remote instance on your iPad. I literally use my iPad as a full desktop computer at work using Shadow PC. iPad plugs into a dock with hdmi keyboard and mouse and Ethernet and run Windows 11 or MacOS environment on the iPad. People just need to learn how to use an iPad correctly

[@LeE-yh2wi]

Yes I agree. I'm an industrial engineering student, so it is handy to use an IPad, due to the heavy math part. But for medical students it really isn’t as beneficial, as for math students. But it is nice to have 😂

[@jerryysen]

Everything you said can be done in an Ipad. From taking screenshot by double tapping on the assistive touch. You can use a keyboard with an ipad

[@sav1052]

I'm an English major, and annotating is one of the biggest parts of our educations. I think I'm getting an iPad because it's way more portable than my 15.6 inch gaming laptop. I think it really depends on the individual.

[@hebe]

hey, I am going to study english next year and trying to decide whether and ipad or a mac is better for english particularly, if you have any advice (if you ended up getting the ipad) I would love to know :)))

[@galinagldm]

It always depends on what you are studying. If you study mathematics, physics or chemistry you have to calculate a lot. Writing by hand would be much easier for that.

[@annnlvbb291]

I bought an iPad for school and I only use my apple pencil to write on my digital personal journal and to sketch. I feel like buying a keyboard and mouse made me improve my studying and also the active recall method is what's best for me now. I'm a law student so I have no time to do any handwriting work. I think it's fine if you're in high school or middle school but for college you'll need to befriend your keyboard and Notion lol Some people saved a lot to buy an iPad so if you can't buy a new laptop the keyboard and mouse will be your best choice.

[@valeriable1778]

For me as a med student it's definitely ipad!! And i get why a lot of med (or any science major) are falling in love with ipad, the thing is i find it really practical in note-taking wither it was drawing or adding notes to your book (pdf) or making mind maps that you can reach to by only one click and its cheaper and can easily be as good as a laptop by just adding a keyboard while i can't just remove the keyboard from my laptop to write or take decent notes in a comfortable way, so like ipad is a laptop when you want and a notebook (that you can write in faster and prettier!) when you want & for me personally that it's smaller and easy to reach and open faster made a huge different for me SPECIALLY in person college it saved me a lot that i don't need to carry around a huge laptop or a notebook (that took a lot of time bc i sometimes needed to retake them on my laptop) now just the ipad doing both notebook and laptop work in a small more practical way, after 3 years with laptops finding ipad was so comfortable for me so i think it depends on your major, mg brother could never buy an iPad bc he depends on coding a lot and some majors might need them both my other brother have formulas more than words so it's hard to take notes on laptop but he also needed a laptop for big specifics apps thar can't be on ipad but other than that he would everything on ipad while practicing on laptop

[@jamietherelentless2670]

I just bought a tablet mostly because my laptop is too big to fit into my bag, so I have to bring a separate laptop bag which is very unpractical, especially on a crowded bus. I'll still be using my laptop at home, I don't really need it for adding text and other small changes which is most of what I do at school.

[@zetaomicron]

I feel like this is true for iPad users. For Samsung tablets/android tablets, we have the exact interface as a desktop computer (Dex mode) and also a multi-window feature where we can multi task AND the S-pen is absolutely helpful to quickly jot down notes and drag-drop images/words from across apps. I love it so much for note-taking now and it has changed my life forever.

[@GlennLopez]

Why use Dex when you can have a real windows and/or osx desktop experience with Jump Desktop or Shadow PC?

[@selvii]

That’s a really provokative statement. They so many different majors with different needs. I’m a third years architect student and it’s basically impossible for me to just do some fast technical sketches on a normal laptop. The ability to draw by hand at anytime is extremely important for architecture. The big plus is that you can switch immediately between sketches and typed in word with the iPad on the same document. That’s the real power. You should title your video different as your opinion can only be from you major Perspektive. Thanks

[@eaglenoimoto]

I feel a thousand years old watching this, and I’m only 35 😂 Neither iPads nor laptops (small enough to carry around habitually) were a thing when I studied 😂

[@jcpark1125]

The thing is, I use study methods such as active recall, spaced repetitions and flashcards. Zero notes at all but I have an ipad air. I use it for textbooks instead because I can get pdf version of my college textbooks and its way cheaper and easily accessible and I can just do everything with my ipad including writing on a planner and so on. I also can download pdf versions of any books I want to read or epub and I can access it to my ipad. I can do my typing on ipad as well especially since my 15 inch laptop is really heavy to carry around. I can just edit my typed notes at home with my windows laptop but for everyday carry and everything else the ipad is way to go.

[@simeditzz]

Made a year long research and asked my self whether I should get an iPad. And in the end I ended up getting a laptop and I am soon planning to get a drawing tablet.

[@Kellythelawyer]

As a Law Student, I use a combination of handwritten notes on the iPad and typed notes.

[@travelfoodbusinessbestheyyono]

In terms of note taking, I think everything you can do with a laptop you can do with an iPad, but not everything you can do on an iPad you can do on a laptop. You can split your screen on both, you can type on both of coarse if you stick a keyboard to your iPad!, but you can only draw diagrams and charts and illustrations on an iPad.

[@Zinger1133]

Couldn’t even imagine trying to import chemical structures onto a laptop without drawing

[@azim510]

Your review is best u have no idea how much value u've provided your review is the best. I was on the verge of getting an ipad instead of macbook after watching tons of reviews I somehow convinced myself for students ipad is good macbook is more for professionals. Man I was wrong. Thank you sooo much

[@mellowwizard]

Microsoft surface does everything a macbook and ipad can. It is both a tablet and a laptop, super fast, and you can screenshot and crop using one click of the pen. Its so easy!

[@anrvandelay1897]

Still iPad I think has a lot of potential, because you use it in study, and you don't need to take notes on iPad, it is not for the lectures you stated. But you can't describe how much it is useful, if you have to write lots of exercises. iPad is the best for learning languages, cuz you can't work on textbooks on Mac like on Ipad with the pencil. Also Ipad is useful for musicians, like superrrr useful, with thousands of music sheets in one place and being able to make notes on them, then erase. In places where u need to write u can't compare ipad with Mac because the main purpose of ipad is the pencil. U can't make ipad Mac and the opposite way.

[@TalaR04]

but how about buying a laptop with a touch screen u can write on

[@Dr.AnushkaSisodiya]

This video really made me feel good, for not being able to buy an iPad right away. Thank you. ❤️

[@harekrishna5075]

What is your field of study ?

[@maidagira]

I’m interest in the note taking during lecture video can’t wait!! This video gave me so much to think about, you brought up really good points🤔

[@Gerumaareki379]

Not sure I agree about the elimination of handwritten notes. You can do both. Enjoyed the video though.😃

[@stefanoguevara2263]

If you handwrite your notes, it will obviously take you longer and you will definitely feel more productive typing in your computer. But if you want to retain information and develop a stronger conceptual understanding I would argue handwritting is better, at least for some people. You can do your own research and see the differences between both. What I do is first make a draft of warever I am trying to learn in paper with my own words and my own diagrams , then I pass them to goodnotes with colours and images, print them(because I prefer reading on paper rather than on the screen) and do active recall wherever I want or have to. At the end of the day we all learn in different ways and the end goal is to LEARN the subject rather that memorize it. For me typing feels too restrictive and unnatural when I am trying to learn something, but I understand why some people prefer it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!.

[@meropealcyone]

To each their own, obviously. I find using a stylus/tablet to be much more flexible and effective, especially for marking up PDFs or Word docs. It's also much better for making rough sketches of graphs or linking sections/sentences/points using arrows. I have no need to the sort of research on the fly, or the file management, the presenter describes. I do it all in OneNote which has a basic but sufficient file structure.

[@unkown34x33]

The first time i got an ipad was in 2011 right after steve died... Back then it was massive! Changed everything. But today... I don't see any need for it long tern. I only have laptops and a mini pc. Coz they sre actual... Machines

[@sarahappy3204]

As an engineering student that has to write formulas (or calculations) in almost every exercise, lecture, tutorial or seminar i have to disagree. I have to handwrite. There is no chance to do that as fast on a computer (latex takes at least 10 times longer). The only question is wether i do that on a tablet or on paper. And there the ipad has major organising advantages.

[@elizabethfilips]

Absolute 10/10 would go with the iPad!

[@obenjerry674]

Girl, I think you are the finest Doctor in the making.

[@abdelrahmanshahein1446]

I watch this video now as I am trying to shift from pc to iPad. I had a smooth workflow on pc especially due to snipping screenshots and anki combo ,which was essential in the last year where I had little time to write notes. iPads are quite restricted on the screenshots however using the shortcuts app I managed to make a shortcut copy directly to clipboard the right half of my screen which I then paste onto anki. I don’t see yet myself using notability but the iPad is going to be worth the change just because of its portability as a resident.

[@AlayShah]

A game changer for me has been Ctrl + Cmd + Shift + 4 (copies the screenshot to clipboard) and paste onto my iPad. You can annotate the diagrams really easily and you get a lot of flexibility. I generally like to handwrite the important things because it helps me remember them. Best of both worlds.

[@elizabethfilips]

YESSS

[@DmdMixZ]

Sort of painful for me to hear about your experience. Goodnotes basically fixed all of your issues. Screenshotting and Photographing right into your notebook, full PDF Import & export, great OCR functionality, index cards with spaced-repetition functionality right in the App etc. After every lecture or reading session, my notes are also exported as a PDF to OneNote, sorted by topic, so I can browse by date, topic or module and always got everything at hand on every device. Goodnotes can be shared across platforms and used in a browser, OneNote can do the same. Theres really no reason for me why I would want to use a Laptop for lectures. That's reserved for me solely to write essays etc. where I then pull my notes up in OneNote. Since OneNote now also allows text search in screenshots and images, you can copy & paste from your handrwitten texts and have it translated into computer text when pasted into Word for example. Really fluent process and works best for me.

[@carolyn3797]

I use both my Ipad and laptop since all my apps are linked together. I like studying from multiple screens so it doesn’t bother me at all.

[@murmur578]

Personally, I will never switch from my iPad to any desktop for notes. The reason behind this is that when I type notes I just zone out and keep typing since I know where all the keys are. With handwriting I actually get myself to remember oh what’s going on here? How does a and b relate? Etc. I do use my magic keyboard to write notes from classes super quickly down and then revisit them and use GoodNotes 5 to make my final notes.

[@elizabethfilips]

Oh my points really aren’t for everyone! I thoroughly enjoyed handwritten note taking and still think it’s a brilliant workflow, I’ve just (personally) now found this more effective. I would still have disagreed with myself now if I’d seen this video back then, and maybe I’ll change back 😂

[@murmur578]

@@elizabethfilips haha

[@celiatarazon9086]

This is really great video! I have been looking for efficient ways to take notes so I would love it if you made a video about detailed note taking! 😃

[@aprilhurtado3307]

This is my 2nd year in college, been hand writing notes the ipad will be a massive load off flipping back and forth while studying.

[@elventures6855]

Watching this on my ipad

[@brianstraus6656]

Cmd + Shift + 4, then hover over a window and press space, then click = Screen shot of just that window.

[@Montecitodesign]

Laptop vs iPad. After viewing your video here, I am still confused because you can attach a keyboard to an iPad...are you saying you can't do a screenshot on the iPad with the attached keyboard? I looked up the Notion software and I see that there is version of Notion for iPad. And, of course you can attach a mouse to an iPad. You can also have two or three apps open on an iPad. I am sorry, while you are articulate, I wonder if you really learned how to use the iPad.

[@juanKme]

This is a great set of recommendations, thanks for sharing this with us!

[@aleah3168]

I have actually adapted to note taking in a notebook in person, then transferring my notes to my iPad. I find it really useful to have notes in person as well as on my device. Unless if the lecture is completely online, along with lecture slides then I just use my iPad

[@Juneelnoby]

This should be specific for certain majors I study fashion design and asian languages and definitely typing isn’t for my majors arts and languages students do need an ipad

[@turtleyawesome7233]

Idk if I'm completely right or not since I'm not an owner of a newer ipad with apple pencil support, but I believe there is a function to turn hand writing into text easily. I plan on getting a new ipad for my sixth form so I can take notes in class, I don't know how to study much as I missed that part of year 11, but I've been researching and apparently hand writing helps with sinking into your brain a lot more efficiently than typing. It would be helpful to write down notes and see them on my imac, I plan to use one note as it's very organised. I also don't want to be depending on usb and loose one like my sister did. But I guess it's all up to the user and thier preferences

[@nether_yoshi]

I prefer an iPad for note-taking because it takes more time. Because I spend more time on it, I remember more. Just an unpopular opinion... :)

[@bogdang79]

iPad + magic keyboard is the best way do go

[@raymondtan9112]

Hi Elizabeth, I agree with you with Ipad. I'm a postgraduate data science graduating student, and initially, I used Notability and GoodNotes exclusively. And same with you, I stopped using Ipad and use my laptop instead. What I am working on is to be better at touch typing. You can only write maybe 30-40 words per minute, and you cannot type that fast while listening. With computer note-taking, you can reach 100-200 words per minute.

[@gabrielasotomayorjamett1075]

If you use both ipad and macbook, with ios ecosistem you can take a photo on macbook or drag it or copy on your ipad, so know when I study I used both.. It's awesome!

[@krisztinakiraly7721]

I'm a uni student in Hungary and we don't have online classes. Also most of our teachers write on boards and mostly formulas. So for us there is no chance that you could keep up with a laptop. And the others don't give out the presentations prior classes. So you can't use your method on either of classes. I'm happy that it's working with your uni, but please don't say that it's universal and will work for everyone.

[@jayw8726]

Ali says to use an iPad. His PA says not to. 😅😍 Nvm, Im broke anyways. 🤣

[@sof6527]

Not a med student 😆 but I like the look of written notes and it sticks in my ltm better, maybe it's the art student in me haha

[@onipise]

At the end of the day, every person's preferences vary and sometimes, what works for one does not for others. It is good to try more than one way of taking notes before sticking to one. However, studies show that the handwriting method is better than typing notes. Yes, you can type faster, but it becomes more of a mechanical thing. To properly handwrite notes, you need a more complex mental process that helps to better process information.

[@muath7962]

I'm a 3rd year medical school and I agree with you, until now I still taking handwriting notes but unfortunately it takes a lot of time, also because I don't have time so I can't organize or typing with better font so when the time come to review the notes it's just unpleasant experience😅 But I still think the ipad is important because I still use notion and nobility so being able to take handwriting and typing notes it's a benefit on the laptop.