Students who take notes by hand use more shorthand, visual signals (for example, bolding, underlining, arrows and stars) and images (diagrams, graphs and tables) than those who type.

Today's update is Paper 's biggest revamp since it launched in 2012, and the company's goal is to turn it into the ultimate mixed media note-taking and idea-aggregating app for better productivity.

When I was in school, I remember taking notes on paper before moving on to a laptop. But some classes, like math or science, required drawing diagrams or working out complex equations, which can ...

Circus Ponies has released NoteBook for iPad, a powerful note-taking tool that includes a full-featured outliner with multi-font text, and lets you add files, diagrams, and sketches to your notes.