Here’s exactly how I take notes on iPad!

Here’s exactly how I take notes on iPad! The app is @Goodnotes but you can take the pieces you like of this setup and use it any app. ✍🏼📲🍏✏️ #digitalnotes #ipad #ipadtok #ipadstudent #StudyTips I've taken thousands of notes on my iPad and this is the handwritten setup I found myself always coming back to. Welcome back to iPad Orientation, a 7-part series where I walk through how to turn your iPad into the only school supply you'll actually need. Episode 4. Last episode was comparing the different note-taking apps on iPad, so watch that one first if you missed it. You do not need to take notes like this on iPad to be a successful student. But I decided to take notes like this to pursue my science in chemistry because having pretty notes like this actually made me want to study. Grid paper was always my preferred note-taking paper because I was a chemist and the grid helped me keep my writing even and helped me draw lots of graphs, diagrams, and mechanisms. Most note-taking apps on iPad will have different papers and templates to choose from. And if you decide notes to have a hard copy to study later, you can always change the paper template to something else after you're done taking notes. I would typically set up my notes page the night before lecture with the heading of whatever we were covering, either handwriting it myself or using a cool font for the header. And I always chose a color for that specific chapter or lesson. This really helped me with studying and recall because I associated teal for instance with cell communication or purple for particle physics. The ball pen is my favorite because I got the most consistent writing with it since the pressure I applied didn't matter. It just made all of my handwriting look even and clean. I used the 0.5 or the 0.6 mm for my headers, and then 0.4 mm for bulleted notes and equations. And this added some hierarchy to my notes. I'd often highlight whatever my accent color was for the headers and a lighter color for the accent for important definitions or things that I'd want to remember. For important information or notes in the margins rather than writing in black like I would for my regular notes, I would often write in whatever accent color was to draw special attention to that note or equation. In Goodnotes, you can customize the shape to have square or rounded corners and I would make sure the fill color option is selected for something like equations and then just draw my box around them to make any diagrams that I pulled look a little cleaner, boxes around those as well, again in that accent color, but with the fill color option toggled off. My notes are actually pretty simple by keeping with the system, but there are digital stickers, stickers that look like sticky notes or sticky flags and icons that you can use to call attention to certain aspects of your notes as well. Whatever system for note taking, I recommend sticking with it because you'll get faster at taking notes over time and quickly recall information from in a test taking scenario. You'll notice that all of my notes adopted this same exact system because it worked really well for me and it was just adapted to whatever that topic was. I'll see you in episode 5 where I share the best way to set up your calendar and reminder lists so you never miss an assignment or deadline.