{"id":9288,"date":"2023-04-13T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:55:59","slug":"onenote-wacom-digital-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/onenote-wacom-digital-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Using OneNote and a Wacom tablet to take digital notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a title=\"Microsoft OneNote\" href=\"https:\/\/site.onenote.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft OneNote<\/a> is a versatile digital notebook that is available anytime, anywhere. It&#8217;s available as a traditional desktop app, a web app, a mobile app, and a simplified version comes pre-installed with Windows 10. Paired with a Wacom pen tablet, the functionality of OneNote is enhanced so you can include handwritten notes, sketches, diagrams, equations and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the video below, UK-based YouTuber Shivani, who was a final year medical student at the time of recording, shows us how she uses a <a title=\"One by Wacom\" href=\"https:\/\/estore.wacom.com\/en-US\/tablets.html#one-by-wacom-link-anchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One by Wacom pen tablet<\/a> with OneNote to write, store, search, and share her school notes. You may even get a glimpse of a day in the life of a med student by watching her video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to make digital handwritten notes on your laptop (using a pen tablet) with OneNote\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cVaOHCtxjMY?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A pen tablet is a cheaper alternative to buying a new iPad or any touch screen device,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It still enables you to make digital notes. Its lightweight and easy to carry and I wish I started using my pen tablet for making notes sooner. It can be tricky to get used to using a pen tablet to make written notes on your laptop, but in this video I share different tips on how to make this process easier.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can be difficult to get used to a digital pen tablet when one is used to using paper, but the transition can be pretty smooth, and the outcome is worth it! &#8220;I use my graphics tablet regularly to make handwritten digital notes. It wasn&#8217;t always like this, though &#8212; I started off making typed notes at the start of my degree but I didn&#8217;t really enjoy doing that. So I spent a lot of time handwriting my notes. However, as the years went by I found that I was just stacking up a lot of paper notes that were difficult to navigate. For example, if I wanted to search my notes for Marfans syndrome, it would take me ages to find out bits I had written about it from all of my years of studying. For a while, I contemplated buying an iPad Pro and apple pencil to make my notes, since I really enjoy making digital art too. But it was just waaaay too expensive for me to justify buying at this point in my life as a student, so I carried on making traditional handwritten notes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when she realized there was a cheaper, simpler alternative, she went all in. &#8220;Then I rediscovered my Wacom tablet, and started making digital notes. Now everything is so much easier to find, I can write as much as I want and I don&#8217;t have to worry about carrying all of my notes to the library to revise a certain module. Everything is on my laptop. Even better,&nbsp; I can access everything on any device as long as they are connected to the internet. If you&#8217;re a medical student or any type of student, you will probably find this to be a useful alternative to buying an iPad. You can connect a Wacom tablet to whatever device\/laptop you&#8217;re working with &#8211; you don&#8217;t need anything fancy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out more of <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/en-us\/improve-your-handwriting-digital-note-taking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shiv\u2019s videos<\/a> on using a Wacom tablet for notetaking, or check out <a title=\"Shivani YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@studiesum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her YouTube channel<\/a> for all of her videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based medical student Shivani shows us how she uses a One by Wacom pen tablet with Microsoft OneNote to handwrite, store, search and share her school notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":808935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2328,2338,2339,2334,2656,2340],"tags":[1166,554,971],"class_list":["post-9288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elearning","category-how-to","category-one-by-wacom","category-stem","category-education","category-products","tag-digital-notetaking","tag-microsoft-onenote","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}