Evernote in the classroom

Evernote in the Classroom

What did you like most about using Evernote to take notes in class? 

I did not use Evernote very often in class, but when I did, I found it to be quite useful. I like Evernote because it is easily accessible in 'the cloud', and it doesn't require any emailing or copying and pasting on my part. I found it very easy to open when I had my iPad in front of me for note taking and draft writing. Evernote was my preferred note taking app during my time using the iPads because I didn't have to do any emailing or copying. I liked very much that all of my notes were saved and organized by time and date. I liked that Evernote also connected to Dropbox when I needed to reference a document or picture. I also liked the fact that Evernote autosaved all of my notes for me. I did not use Evernote very often, but when I did I found  that i liked the app because of its ease.

What problems or limitations did you encounter while using Evernote?

Although Evernote is mainly for note taking- hence the name- I wish that it took a similar style to Microsoft Office Word. I wish that the Evernote app was also a paper and full essay writing app rather than just a note taking one. My only problems with Evernote were the lack of spell check and Microsoft Word tools. Besides my wishes for more Evernote tools, I loved the app, and the ease that it brought to my note taking.

Do you have any other feedback or suggestion on making Evernote better?

My only feedback would be that Evernote gain more Microsoft office-like tools in order to accommodate longer writing. I would have liked to see an app that was similar to Microsoft Office Word for longer essay writing on the iPads. Although there are no such kind, I believe Evernote is very close. Other than that feedback, anything else I would have to say about Evernote would be mainly positive. The app is very easy to access and provides super-easy ways to save notes and annotations. The Evernote app allowed me to never have to copy and paste notes into an email, and instead just continue writing while it was automatically saved. Evernote is very organized and easy and I appreciate all of the time that it saved me. Although I did not use Evernote very often, when I did use the app for annotating and note taking I found it to be very useful and easy.