Browsed by
Category: Apps for Students

Looking for a way to quickly develop outlines for your writing?

Looking for a way to quickly develop outlines for your writing?

Comments 5 comments

We all have great ideas but sometimes can’t get them on paper. Start With Brainstorming to Get Those Ideas Out! Brainstorming has different meanings for different people. For me, I take the term literally. It is a storm in my brain and storms aren’t really controllable. That meshes with the purpose of brainstorming, to record as many thoughts as possible without any analysis or screening. That comes later. What will I miss if I stop and try to categorize everything…

Read More Read More

Get Organized!

Get Organized!

Comments 2 comments

Every year, it’s the same old thing: New Year Resolutions and Good Intentions topped with a big helping of Early Disappointments. Still, we do it because some will make it and the result will be personal, social, and/or business  successes. This is the time of year that many will clean out closets and rearrange  things to prepare for the new year. It’s the time of year when business folks feel pressure to organize their tax information to save a few dollars. Sometimes,…

Read More Read More

Ideas for Using Evernote

Ideas for Using Evernote

Comments 0 Comment

To follow up on the post about Evernote, here are some possible uses based on my personal experience. There will be much more not shown here. There is still time to take advantage of the student discount for Evernote Premium. If you are a student, now is the time to give Evernote a try. Until September 30, 2016 you can get a year of Premium for 75% off! [Check it out!] If you have other uses not shown in the…

Read More Read More

Evernote As an Indispensable Research and Writing Tool

Evernote As an Indispensable Research and Writing Tool

Comments 0 Comment

Evernote is one of those applications that just keeps evolving as the need arises. It would be impossible to describe all of its features in a single review and some of the material would be outdated by the time I finished. In my previous post about Evernote, I mentioned several features but in this post, will focus on the app’s value in research and writing. What Evernote Can Do? Where do I begin? For saving data, Evernote does almost anything…

Read More Read More

Why Use Cloud Storage?

Why Use Cloud Storage?

Comments 0 Comment

Has This Ever Happened to You? (If it hasn’t yet, it most likely will!) You just spent six hours working on a chapter revision and feel really good about it. The creative juices were really flowing and you were in the zone with lots of great ideas. Not wanting to lose any revisions, you religiously did backups every 15 minutes to make sure to safeguard those thoughts. The next day, you decide to make other revisions but when you turn…

Read More Read More

The Value of Planning Your Writing- Outlining and Flowcharting

The Value of Planning Your Writing- Outlining and Flowcharting

Comments 0 Comment

Background Having taught for many years and mentored students at all levels of education, I have noticed one thing that is often overlooked by novice and even experienced students: the power of outlining and flowcharting in the writing preparatory phase. However, I can recall my high school days when English teachers would always tell us to “start with an outline and then write” our papers. I didn’t learn that lesson in high school or even in undergraduate work; I only…

Read More Read More

What is Evernote?

What is Evernote?

Comments 0 Comment

Attempting to describe Evernote is much like the story of the three blind men attempting to describe an elephant based on the place that each touched the elephant. Each one has a separate perception based on the area that was touched. In a similar way, different Evernote users have different descriptions about what it is and what it does. A Place to Store Everything Evernote can store almost every kind of data that you could imagine and in most cases,…

Read More Read More

Task Management

Task Management

Comments 0 Comment

Do you want to get more done with your time? Do you want to improve the quality of your academic work? Try a task management app! Planning your work during an academic program of any kind, whether a semester full of classes with assignments or a thesis/dissertation, can mean the difference in failure and success.  Any assignment consists of many smaller tasks that must be done to successfully complete the assignment. While there is not enough space in this post…

Read More Read More