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College Students' Note-Taking Habits

The document discusses college students' note-taking habits, emphasizing the use of both handwritten and digital notes for various purposes such as lectures, meetings, and personal reflections. It highlights challenges faced in organizing notes and test preparation, as well as preferred strategies like using bullet points and subheadings. Additionally, it outlines desired features for a writing tablet, including better organization, affordability, and enhanced functionality like speech-to-text and multimedia integration.

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College Students' Note-Taking Habits

The document discusses college students' note-taking habits, emphasizing the use of both handwritten and digital notes for various purposes such as lectures, meetings, and personal reflections. It highlights challenges faced in organizing notes and test preparation, as well as preferred strategies like using bullet points and subheadings. Additionally, it outlines desired features for a writing tablet, including better organization, affordability, and enhanced functionality like speech-to-text and multimedia integration.

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A.

Talk to college students and find their note taking works and find
patterns

Purposes:
• A to-do list, taking notes in classes
• During meetings at work, while having a discussion about academics
• Inner thoughts, reflections, ideas, webinars online, content for blog, groceries, to do lists,
appointments, work related tasks etc
• Classes or to start the day- to do list.
• Does it for for 3 things: Lectures, Studying and [Link] also uses to track tasks and
to-dos
• To write down lyrics of a song, screenplay and for post-production works

Handwritten vs Digital Notes

• Prefers pen and paper just because it creates a visual memory better in my head for more
effective retention.
• Prefers Handwritten, as you naturally need more concentration while writing down
something than typing it out
• Prefers Handwritten when I need to plan for the exam. But depends high on digital notes
these days, since it’s easy to edit and save.
• If there is a lot of math involved or I'm taking notes to help me remember things, prefer
handwritten notes. Otherwise, digital.

Difficulties while writing notes

• Difficulty in Organising Notes


• Limited Writing Speed
• Limited Accessibility and Portability
• Hand Fatigue or Discomfort
• Grammatical Ideas while scripting, rhyming words, translation searches

Notes - Test Taking Challenges

• Carrying around and keeping track of multiple notes is hard


• Tends to forget what certain markings imply
• Lack of continuity
• To capture all the essential information while staying organized.
• Reviewing Notes before exam

Note-taking Strategies

• Fold the paper in 4 and write only the important points in a topic
• Bullet points
• Taking notes based on the previous year’s question of that particular exam.
• Subheadings and abbreviations to remember the key points
Features that customers would love to have it on our writing tablet
• Want it in such a way that it's easy to organize. Whatever topic to review should be easily
searchable
• Would love a more affordable and minimalist version
• Different templates for taking notes and the option of including videos along with the notes
too
• Making it as close to a tradition writing experience.
• Better storage management
• An index page
• Speech to Text mode to take notes
• An inbuilt web feature to search for other info without having to switch apps.
• Allow for multiple fonts and styles to make it more visually interesting so the brain can
remember easily
• Should replicate the feeling of writing on paper
• Highlight text and images
• Powerful search feature

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