Taking effective digital notes

Learn some digital tools to take notes.

More and more university students are choosing to take notes on a laptop or other digital device. Recently, as part of a GrowME project facilitated by Victoria University of Wellington’s Careers and Employment Team, a group of current students surveyed their friends and classmates to find out more about how they take notes digitally. Here you’ll find a list of tools for taking digital notes, as recommended by our students.

OneNote

OneNote is an electronic notebook for collecting, organizing and sharing digital information.

OneNote

Word

Due to its widespread familiarity, Word is an easy programme to access and use for note taking.

Word

PowerPoint

Many lecturers use slides when giving their lectures. These are often made available on Nuku for students to access and notes can be added directly to the PowerPoint presentations

PowerPoint

Google Docs

Google Docs is a web-based software programme offered by Google within its Google Drive service.

Google Docs