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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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[โ€“] witness_me@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I went back to college about 10 years ago, I did everything on an iPad. From note taking to studying. Everything was done digitally and synced to online backups.

[โ€“] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how did you write things? with the touch screen? not sure if apple had a stylus already back then..

[โ€“] witness_me@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Apple didnโ€™t have a stylus, but there were third party styluses with rubber tips available. It worked well for its time.