Comments on: Note Taking in Word: A Tale of Two Methods http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/09/03/note-taking-in-word-a-tale-of-two-methods/ law for the rest of us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:49:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Andrew Flusche http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/09/03/note-taking-in-word-a-tale-of-two-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-2833 Andrew Flusche Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:28:39 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/09/03/note-taking-in-word-a-tale-of-two-methods/#comment-2833 George, You are absolutely right that dual monitors are a good way to go. I actually wrote about this a while ago: <a href="http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/04/21/multiple-monitors-increase-productivity/" rel="nofollow">Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity</a>. Now that I have a new, better laptop, a nice secondary monitor is high on the tech to-buy list. I envision precisely the scenario you suggest: research on one screen, writing on the other. Thanks so much for commenting. I'm really glad to hear your feedback. Andrew George,

You are absolutely right that dual monitors are a good way to go. I actually wrote about this a while ago: Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity.

Now that I have a new, better laptop, a nice secondary monitor is high on the tech to-buy list. I envision precisely the scenario you suggest: research on one screen, writing on the other.

Thanks so much for commenting. I’m really glad to hear your feedback.

Andrew

]]> By: George Lenard http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/09/03/note-taking-in-word-a-tale-of-two-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-2830 George Lenard Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:55:43 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/09/03/note-taking-in-word-a-tale-of-two-methods/#comment-2830 Great suggestion. Back in the day when I was in law school (1980-82), my "reading notes" were just color-coded underlining and marginal asterisks in the casebooks. I then took lecture notes and reviewed the cases and notes simultaneously to prepare meticulous outlines. Now that I'm done reminiscing, fast forward to 2007. I have gone one better than your side-by side method, which is somewhat cramped. I now use a two-monitor system, especially when writing up research, with downloaded cases or statutes on one monitor and my memo on the other. With a laptop running XP all you need to do is plug in a standard monitor, decide which one should be the primary monitor, and you're good to go. You can drag screens from one monitor to the other, and the mouse smoothly crosses the boundary (you can set the geometry of the monitors -- top-bottom or left-right). If you don't have one, you should be able to pick up a used CRT monitor very inexpensively. It should make merging the highlights from the two sets of notes a snap, if that's what you want to do Great suggestion. Back in the day when I was in law school (1980-82), my “reading notes” were just color-coded underlining and marginal asterisks in the casebooks. I then took lecture notes and reviewed the cases and notes simultaneously to prepare meticulous outlines.

Now that I’m done reminiscing, fast forward to 2007. I have gone one better than your side-by side method, which is somewhat cramped.

I now use a two-monitor system, especially when writing up research, with downloaded cases or statutes on one monitor and my memo on the other.

With a laptop running XP all you need to do is plug in a standard monitor, decide which one should be the primary monitor, and you’re good to go. You can drag screens from one monitor to the other, and the mouse smoothly crosses the boundary (you can set the geometry of the monitors — top-bottom or left-right).

If you don’t have one, you should be able to pick up a used CRT monitor very inexpensively.

It should make merging the highlights from the two sets of notes a snap, if that’s what you want to do

]]> By: Henrico’s Homepage » Using Word http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/09/03/note-taking-in-word-a-tale-of-two-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-2670 Henrico’s Homepage » Using Word Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:38:27 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2006/09/03/note-taking-in-word-a-tale-of-two-methods/#comment-2670 [...] Found this link: http://www.legalandrew.com/200.....thods/. Describes a good way to take notes using Word. Helpful for classes where students need to read a textbook, and then take notes on a lecture based on the textbook. Posted by admin @ 1:38 pm :: eLearning Comment RSS :: Trackback URI [...]

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