Tech way to take math notes

[JewishBacon]

I keep coming back to this every semester, Im an engineering college student and I have to take a lot of notes in class.  Most of the things I write down are math things, Greek letters, integration symbols etc. I WANT to be able to take notes on a piece of electronics SO BADLY. But every time I try it fails miserably. If you take notes on a tablet or something like that let me know how you do it please.    

[Darren]

Galaxy Note 10.1 with S Pen is great for this, used it in a few math classes.

[rmac52]

I can second the note 10.1. I used it for 2 semesters before I bricked it trying to flash a new rom. It's was great. The screen was just a tad to small for me though. I use a lot of space when I take notes.

I have over 300 pages of hand written notes from this semester. I kept telling myself I was going to enter then in my computer put it was too much.

The surface pro 3 advertises itself as the perfect solution For you but I can't vouch for it.

[JewishBacon]

Galaxy Note 10.1 with S Pen is great for this, used it in a few math classes.

 

 

I can second the note 10.1. I used it for 2 semesters before I bricked it trying to flash a new rom. It's was great. The screen was just a tad to small for me though. I use a lot of space when I take notes.

I have over 300 pages of hand written notes from this semester. I kept telling myself I was going to enter then in my computer put it was too much.

The surface pro 3 advertises itself as the perfect solution For you but I can't vouch for it.

What app were you using? I have an older android tablet that I may be able to use

[ImBleu]

Surface Pro 3 w/ One Note + Surface Ntrig Pen

[CommanderRykerHaunSolo]

A note device with an spen works or Amy device with a pen. Second on the surface tho.

[marioo1182]

Surface Pro 3 w/ One Note + Surface Ntrig Pen

Is the Ntrig pen much better than the pen that comes with the surface?

[zombie-waffles]

Is the Ntrig pen much better than the pen that comes with the surface?

 

The Ntrig pen is the one that comes with the Surface (Pro 3). Not the Pro 1 or Pro 2, though, those are Wacom.

 

I also recommend the Surface Pro line, as well. I've been using the Pro 2 + One Note (the desktop version -- the metro version kind of sucks) for the past three semesters or so as an ECE and Math major, and I really like it.

 

I haven't actually seen at any performance benchmarks or anything, but if you just need to take notes + do basic day-to-day use things, the Surface (non-Pro) 3 looks to be a very promising option for a full Windows $500 USD machine (or, really like $629 with the basically mandatory keyboard)

[ofr057]

why dont you get mathematica on a surface .... that would be a pretty cool setup

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/

 

afew of my stat professors does that

[Guest]

Get an iPad Mini?

[Sharp_3yE]

I keep coming back to this every semester, Im an engineering college student and I have to take a lot of notes in class. Most of the things I write down are math things, Greek letters, integration symbols etc. I WANT to be able to take notes on a piece of electronics SO BADLY. But every time I try it fails miserably. If you take notes on a tablet or something like that let me know how you do it please.

My suggestion is to get a surface tablet and use one note. You can take a picture with one not then draw on that picture as well so if there are notes on a white board you can take a pic of it.

Another think I'll suggest is using office lens app which is an app for phones. What it does is when you take a picture with your phone of a document or white board or what ever it crops the picture and makes it look like very neat and as if you took the picture perfectly even if you were at an angle. You can then save it to one note and draw on it.

Check out office lens (or an app like it but office lens does integrate with one note) and use a surface 3/pro 3 tablet with pen and keyboard.

[marioo1182]

The Ntrig pen is the one that comes with the Surface (Pro 3). Not the Pro 1 or Pro 2, though, those are Wacom.

 

I also recommend the Surface Pro line, as well. I've been using the Pro 2 + One Note (the desktop version) for the past three semesters or so as an ECE and Math major, and I really like it.

 

I haven't actually seen at any performance benchmarks or anything, but if you just need to take notes + do basic day-to-day use things, the Surface 3 looks to be a very promising option for $500 (or, really like $629 with the basically mandatory keyboard)

I have a surface pro 3. I just didn't know if the one that it came with is an ntrig pen. I find it difficult to draw small things. But large things like diagrams are easy.

It's still not as fast as pencil and paper for me though.