It is becoming easier and easier to replace the pen and the folios with a laptop or tablet, even more so with the reduced size and lightness of the MacBook Air and I say nothing if we have a MacBook.
Therefore, we will see in this article, the Essential applications for our daily lives as students. In addition, we will discuss a native Mac or Apple application (and free) as well as a third-party application.
- Calendar / Fantastical 2: Lets start by the beginning, it's time to organize. We will need to create a new calendar for our teaching activity. With Calendar We put the classes, exams or delivery of work. It is synchronized with IOS and allows us to notify us of the time to leave the class or attach the "homework" for the next day. Fantastical It also allows us to interact in the same interface with the list of tasks, so that we always keep it in mind.
- TextEdit (or Pages) / iA Writer: As lazy as we are, we have to take notes in class. The simplest and fastest option is TextEdit, the simplest text editor I know, but it has all the necessary functions for taking notes. It is always good to incorporate a photograph, graphic or link, and therefore, we recommend Pages for it. If we want more, we can use iA Writer, which allows writing very fast thanks to incorporating the technology Markdown.
- Preview/ PDFExpert 2: it's time to study. We have handwritten notes, typed texts. preview It will allow us to: underline, mark in phosphorescent, even make some annotations to the text. On the other hand, PDF Expert It has many more functions, but it also has IOS function and it syncs with icloud, therefore, you can finish the job on the iPad or iPhone where you left it.
- One last recommendation is MindNode to make concept maps. Sometimes the branches do not let us see the forest, with MindNode we can make the planning of the study or work, in a clearer way and move on to develop it.
Do you have any application that is essential for you in the study? Tell us about it.