 In this video, we're going to have a look at some tools that you can use to help with your note-taking. So there are many different reasons why I might take notes. I mean, take lecture notes, notes on your reading, some quick notes that you may just have to refer to later in your life, notes that are very closely connected to each other, but also may want to take audio notes. So let's have a look at five tools that may actually fit your needs in this area. And I want to talk about Notion, OneNote, Evernote, Google Keep, and AlterAI. And these are tools that actually I personally use all of them for different purposes. So let's have a look at them one by one. So first, Google Keep. Google Keep is a very simple note-taking app. And it is great for quick lists, shopping lists, also quick photos or pictures that you need to remind yourselves. For example, here is my reminder of the reading electricity meter. Here is a quick reminder to check out these tools. I often use it for my shopping list. If I see an interesting sign, I may take a picture of that as well. And so that's where I take my quick notes that I don't need to perhaps link together too much or use beyond a very short amount of time. But there are tools that actually give me much more ability to collect things. And Evernote is one of those. Evernote is one of the original note-taking apps, one of the old standards. And perhaps many people are moving away from it because it hasn't kept up with time, with the times. But one thing that is great for is collecting a long list of resources in various notebooks. So you can do that. And what is particularly good at is for integrations. Because it has been around for so long, there are many other tools that integrate with it and send data to it. And so I will use that Evernote for that very often. Now, one note is a competitor to Evernote and it is much more visual. And it's great for taking notes in lectures because it is possible to create multiple notebooks and then have pages and sub-pages. But you can have things together with each other side by side. And the one great feature that you can have with Evernote is that it's really great for taking photos off screens. So if you're in a lecture and you take a picture of something that's going to be presented, Evernote will do that really easily. So I often take notes in Evernote as I'm sitting in a lecture. And then I use my phone as well to take pictures and it will insert it directly into Evernote. And actually it will make really a good job of converting what's on the screen into text. And so often it's much better quality than just taking a picture with your phone camera. Now, there is a new favorite or a new exciting tool that lots of people are talking about. And that is Notion. Notion is really great if you need to combine a lot of tools. For example, even allows you to do some project management and collect things together in your research. And for example, one of the great features of Evernote is that you can create databases with it. So the database that lists all the tools that I have collected for these videos is made in Notion. And I can easily share it. So Notion is really great. And also it is now free for all students. So you can certainly take advantage of that. It doesn't have some of the same nice features around photos that Mono does and doesn't have some of the visuality. But it certainly is, again, very powerful. And it is one of the more higher investment tools because it will require a bit of time to get the most out of it, but it will perhaps repay you that investment. And finally, for audio notes, there are not as many tools. But the one that I would recommend that you look at is alter.ai. And it is really intended for transcribing of meetings and taking meeting notes. But it's also good for just making a little audio note. So you can get a mobile app or use the website. You can upload an audio to it or just directly record it. Then it will do a transcript of what you're saying. And then you can combine it with pictures and then use those notes to remind yourself of what you want to do. So again, alter is a tool that isn't primarily for note-taking, but it can be really good if what you want to use is audio for taking your notes. So thank you for watching. And in the next video, we're going to have a look at tools for writing.