OneNote goes to law school
I’ve sung the praises of OneNote here a time or two, but this time I’m going to let my niece, Liz, do that. Liz just finished her first year of law school. I happen to know she purchased a copy of Office 2007 Home & Student before she started school because I shipped it to her. I also know that until this past year, she had never used OneNote. Naturally, I pointed her to some helpful information about all the fantastic things it can do. She took it from there.
So, since we’re launching our Back to School Student page this week, I thought I’d check in with Liz and see how the year went. One of the things I love about Liz is that I can just suggest a topic and she’ll take off running – I don’t have to dig to get her opinion. Her experience with OneNote was no exception. Here are some highlights:
“I had never taken lecture notes on my computer before,” Liz told me. “All through undergraduate school I took my notes by hand, on paper. But law school is different – there are so many case studies and so much to capture, I needed to be on my computer.” With free wi-fi everywhere, most students in her class of 167 had notebooks. The school provides downloads of the cases for their classes and outlines from past years, so the students can just make notes directly on those documents. As far as OneNote goes, Liz could not stop singing its praises.
“It keeps me so organized!” she enthused. “I create separate notebooks for every class, and sub-folders for every case study. It’s fantastic. I download templates from your site and use different color-coding and designs for each class. I can create separate folders, different tabs, use different fonts and highlight cases by importance, create sub pages. . . It’s so much better than taking notes in Word or in the Mac program a lot of people have. I don’t have any notebook binders – just tabs on my computer. ”
As for school, she likes it well enough, but isn’t looking forward to being in debt. In fact, her situation is not all that different from the typical college student experience conveyed in this video:
We hope our Students page makes your college experience at least a little easier to manage.
--Nancy
