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how many of you study from your smartphone? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by ricesoup@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm old fashioned and learn the old way: you print what you need to study, get a pen and a highlighter, have a seat next to a table and get to it.

My current position offers me ample downtime but I'm not allowed to carry a portfolio with my study materials around and I don't like folding my A size papers (ANSI standard) because I end up ruining them that way.

A smartphone's screen is not very big and highlighting text with it is a nightmare. This is medicine I'm studying, meaning lots of graphics to locate veins, nerves...

I don't find it practical but maybe you do? If so, any tips?

I could create an epub or pdf file from the materials and use LibreraFD to access them. I don't know.

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you need more screen realestate, consider getting a phablet (aka plus sized phone these days). If you can carry a tablet with you, that would probably be even better.

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is it for me, I might have to try a bigger phone to fill those time gaps productively. I encounter the same situation as OP, and if they can't easily carry A4 paper as they said they probably can't use a tablet..

What I hate about newish phones is the thin aspect ratio, and foldables are not robust enough yet to my liking :/

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 2 months ago

I used to have a Sony phone. It was so big and thin, that I was constantly worried about bending it accidentally.It had like some super cinematic 21:9 ratio or whatever. Looks good in a movie theater, but feels really awkward in your pocket. Actually, my jacket had pockets big enough for that phone, but It was really difficult to keep it anywhere else. In the bad old days, people used to keep the phone in dedicated belt mounted phone pouch/holster/thingy. I wish I had one of those leather pouches, because that phone really needed one.

Reading, browsing and gaming on it was great though. Having a bigger screen is something I really did appreciate when sitting in the metro every day.