What Is the Best Visual Note Taking App?

What is the best visual note-taking app?

Effective note-taking is far more about technique than tool. Pen and paper are easily the most effective tools, if a laptop is out of the question. You can organize the notes you take by developing a system ahead of time and sticking to it. Note that all the best televised journalists don't sit down for interviews with a laptop ready to go, and certainly not an iPad. Those tools are just not appropriate to conducting interviews. If you're focused on the subject instead of your own materials and equipment, you will be a better journalist. Have a list of questions you want to ask, and take down notes in shorthand during the interview. Record the whole thing in audio or AV, so transcripts can be done later (see Brian Fey's @ to this question). If it's worth interviewing someone, it's worth the systematic effort to conduct the interview properly.