I ended up with a combination of these, depending on the course and whatever devices I had available. Handwriting my notes with a pen, in a notebook made of paper.Going whole hog and taking notes in LaTeX in real time (using TeXpad on Mac or iOS).Typing notes using MultiMarkdown, to allow for easily formatted text, equations, footnotes, and other wacky content.Notes taken on my iPad, a combination of handwritten (with a stylus) and typed.My main candidates, which I used to varying degrees, were: I was about to get hammered by information that took a variety of forms: lots of equations and diagrams, but also enough discussion-oriented material to require flexibility in how I took notes. When I started graduate school a few years ago, I was terribly concerned about my notetaking setup (in retrospect, I should have been more concerned about statistics).

Once that’s done, you can either send it to yourself and save/share the image from iOS mail, or you can use this handy dandy IFTTT recipe to email it to IFTTT which saves it back into your photo library, annotated and all.

You can then edit the image to your heart’s content including shapes (notice the nice shape recognition option at the bottom), text, and even a magnifier callout: This is in spite of the fact that it exists in the action extension share sheet in Mail:ĭespite this major limitation, the usability of the markup extension makes it worth using by sharing a photo via Mail, then saving the sent image back to your photo library.įirst, share an image via Mail and tap on the image to get the Markup option (I sometimes have to tap it more than once): There’s just one big downside to markup: for reasons I cannot fathom, it’s only available in Mail. it has a very simple and easy to use interface.it’s pressure sensitive using 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and the Pencil on the iPad Pro.it has excellent shape recognition, including arrows.In addition to being built in, the Markup extension has some nice properties: Gabe’s discussion of the limitations of all the many different existing iOS apps to annotate screenshots got me thinking about another option: the Markup extension in iOS Mail. Gabe Weatherhead has an awesome post about how he uses the awesome Pixelmator to annotate screenshots.

Bamboo with evernote for mac os x