 What is up guys karma medic here and today I want to talk all about the iPad pro and how I use it to take notes at university or college. It's basically changed my life when it comes to organization taking lecture notes and basically managing while I'm at university. If you're new to the channel welcome my name is Nasser I'm a second year medical student at King's College of London and if you enjoy this content feel free to leave a like on the video and subscribe to my channel if you want to stick around. I'm going to show you guys how it is that I actually organize all of my different lecture notes tutorials workshops online learning modules etc on my iPad. Also the color coding that I use in my lecture notes and how that helps me find important information faster and yeah hopefully just a bunch of useful stuff that you guys will enjoy so without further ado let's just get started. Before you leave in a comment down below yes I know this charging cable is here and yes I know it is totally ruining the aesthetic of this video but anyway just ignore it. Notability is my app of choice I've used GoodNotes 5 I've used OneNote and I just don't like them as much as notability it just has the perfect overall package for me. Alright so let me move to the sides so that you guys can see everything that I'm doing on screen. First things first that start off with what is over here on the left side of my screen these are what are called dividers in notability. So if you imagine you had a paper based version of this notebook you would have big folders or dividers and then inside them you would have your different lecture notes or tutorial notes and things like that. So these bigger files over here are folders kind of like this kind of like this so this folder over here is going to be for one subject let's say so for example here it'll be for supporting life or for inflammation or for aging etc etc and then within that folder you're going to have all of your different lectures. Let's talk about aging specifically for a second so once you've gone into that divider you'll see here that I have all of my different subjects within that divider so within the big topic of aging we have the introductory week then Parkinson's disease muscles and bone and aging the elementary tract cognitive impairment nutrition etc and in each one of those smaller subjects I have all of my individual lectures so let's take Parkinson's disease for example over here you can see EL01 so that stands for e-learning or online learning number one and here I have lecture one at the bottom whoops lecture two lecture three lecture four and so this is an easy way for me to organize all of the different lectures tutorials e-learning workshops whatever it is that I have for a specific subject so for Parkinson's for example at a glance I can quickly see that I have four lectures one e-learning module and then one workshop this should actually be labeled W01 have I have mislabeled that all right nice so at a quick glance I can see that I have four lectures here one workshop and one e-learning module meet personally I don't take my lecture notes directly on the lecture slides and that's because this is a good example you get lectures like this sometimes which are really colorful and it's going to be difficult to write on it's going to be difficult to see of course you can use colors that will accent well with the background but personally for me this just looks kind of messy on top of that I don't necessarily want every single slide in my lecture notes what I want to do is take the most important slides and include them in my handwritten lecture notes and that way I can pick and choose what I think is most important as opposed to having a bunch of slides that I skipped through and that are empty without notes because they're not as useful for example right here this is a bunch of papers it looks like they're talking about Parkinson's I don't need to include this whole slide in my lecture notes I can just write down the one or two sentences that I think are important from this slide and that's why I don't write my lecture notes directly on the slides I prefer to make a separate document which I call important stuff so for each one of these subjects I'll have a note called important stuff so for example here we have important stuff Parkinson's disease if you guys click on that you'll see that it has the notes for each one of the lectures tutorials and workshops and e-learning modules that I have worked on for that subject and the best part is that it's color coded really nicely so it's easy for me to pick out the important pieces of information that I want and links and syncs and connects back to all of the different individual lectures that I have here so let's return to muscle and bone in aging I have four e-learning lectures and then I also have three case-based discussions so when I go to my important stuff document for this subject which is muscles and bone in aging which is in the bigger divider of aging if you go to the important stuff you'll see that I have lecture 01 osteoporosis and metabolic disease which corresponds with lecture 01 over here this lecture over here that you see is a very typical example of one of my lecture notes you'll notice that it's divided generally into three columns and always always always very rarely with few exceptions my lecture notes fit on one page so this is where the page ends if you can see this sort of thicker line over here so all of my lecture notes for each lecture fit on one page and that is very important to me because I remember things geographically or spatially on the page so let's say for example that I was trying to remember this piece of information I when I'm trying to recall this information in an exam I'll remember what was to the right of it what was beneath it was up into the left that's how I remember different pieces of information that are grouped together sort of with this spatial or geographical way of remembering things let's get rid of all of that okay so like I said this is a typical example of my lecture notes split into three columns and the best part about my notes is that it's color coded really really well and my color coding stays throughout all of my lectures so that I always know what each color means and it helps me pick out the important pieces of information when I'm quickly looking for them at a glance first things first you write out the lecture title in pink and then I write a couple of things in orange if they don't really fit under a general heading they're just sort of not fun facts but general facts about the topic that the lecture is going to be on they don't really fit under one of these headings that I put in dark blue if that fact or piece of information doesn't really fit anywhere it'll go over here in orange right at the beginning then for each lecture slide I write out the title of the lecture slide in this dark blue color that you guys see over here so each one of these titles or headings is the heading of a lecture slide and then within each lecture slide I use that yellow color again to set out the sort of subheadings or other important topics within that single lecture slide for example let's talk about definitions we have the dexa scan osteoporosis osteopenia fragility etc so these are sort of subheadings within the single lecture slide and I'll put those in a different color as well all of my normal writing or sort of general facts general ideas etc is going to be done in gray after that I write all of my medicines all of my treatments anything pharmacology related in this bright green color that you guys can see over here and so if I'm scrolling through a lecture let's say for here osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease and I want to quickly scan to what are the treatments of osteoporosis I can quickly look for the light green colored words and I know that that's going to be the medications for that lecture on top of that I write things that I think are particularly important in red so that's what you guys will see over here that will obviously immediately draw my attention when I take a look at this lecture slide in the future or when I'm reviewing it and of course I also copy paste all of the graphs or diagrams that I think are important and yes I could rejoin out myself and yeah that would probably make me remember it better but I'm generally writing a lot of lecture notes a day and I'm doing a lot of writing every single day and so if I can save myself a little bit of time by not having to redraw out diagrams I'll just copy and paste it to make my life a little bit easier let's see what else do I have here I usually write anything that I know is high yield for an exam or I've seen come up in previous exams or tests I usually write that in purple so anything in light purple has definitely come up on an exam before and anything in dark purple is likely going to come up on an exam because it's a really important idea or topic or something like that so yeah here we go anything in light purple is is examinable or I've seen it on an exam so here I've even written an exam question so all of this in purple I've seen come up in past tests or on exams and things like that and so it's a fact that I definitely want to know so yeah I think that pretty much sums it up for my lectures all of my lecture notes look exactly the same they all have this exact same color scheme the exact three columns let's for example just take a look at the next subject over here so again one two three here one two three they all sort of work around the exact same color scheme the exact same organization and that helps me have continuity throughout my lectures and it helps me immediately identify information that I know is important now when it comes to revising for exams I take those lecture notes that I've made and I condense them down into the absolutely most important information the most clinically relevant information if you don't know I'm a second year medical student at King's and so most importantly for me from all of these lectures is the clinically focused and clinically relevant information so for example this is another series of lecture notes that I did this one is on the pathogenesis of sepsis and so after I've written my general lecture notes which you guys will see here when I'm reviewing this material for the exam I will condense everything that I've written up there into the most important clinical information and I will almost always do this in a yellow color so for example all of these lecture notes that you see up here has been condensed into just these few yellow notes over here and that's sort of the most important most high yield information that I can look at at a glance so for example here again we have hospital acquired infections here are my three columns that I wrote for the normal lecture notes and when I was reviewing this for my exam I summarized it down into just this small amount of information that you guys see here written in yellow and so that way I take my notes which are quite long quite big and I summarize them down into as little as possible I also quickly want to mention that this iPad is just so valuable for things like tutorials as well so let's take for example these case-based discussions over here this is a printout that you would get handed in class or you would have to print it out before you came to class and so instead of me writing on this piece of paper or this handout that I know I'm definitely going to lose the second I get home I'm just going to take it out of my bag and it's going to get lost I have it here on my iPad and it's electronically available I can of course write on it highlights etc etc and it's just always going to be there and I can access these notes at any time from any place even if I don't have an internet connection it's all saved on my iPad of course it also syncs with my laptop and so any changes that I make on my laptop are transferred over here and any changes that I make here are transferred to my laptop so it's just a really really great way to make sure you never lose anything to keep yourself organized honestly the iPad is fantastic and I also use notability for other aspects of my life as well you can see here that I have a to-do list and right now you can see it's a little bit empty because I've done most of these deadlines that have come up over here and but I use it to track my to-do list it's sort of like my homework diary or my little notepad that I used to use to keep track of everything in my life you know things I have to do when I get home administrative stuff things for the house etc I just write it down on my iPad now instead of a piece of paper I also use my iPad to keep track of my Karma Medic YouTube channel so everything from you know video ideas to writing down on the iPad things that I want to put into videos etc etc taking a look at my channel analytics and things like that I use my iPad to keep track of basically everything in my life let's get this boy out of the way in fact I think it's turned off because it stopped recording no battery power remains great well we'll see how much of a second angle you guys get in this video anyways guys I think that covers everything that I want to talk about about how I use my iPad to take notes in university if you guys enjoyed this video or found it useful at all definitely feel free to leave a like on the video it really helps out the channel and I would appreciate it if you haven't already you can follow me on instagram or subscribe to this channel to get even more content from me if you enjoyed this video that much but anyways guys that is it for me I hope you've enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next one peace