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Sadly, CES 2026 did little to take away the distinct whiff of a shameless money grab from the world of high-tech, AI-enhanced note-taking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Hopkins for Mashable When you're a student, your notes are your lifeblood. With more online options than ever for note-taking ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

Google Keep is a go-to option for taking quick notes and creating lists on Android phones. Still, its limitations become ...

Digital note-taking is one of the most efficient ways for students and learners to emphasize and organize all the information in their lectures/classes. It uses technology to recall the relevant key ...

How many notes do you have saved on your phone? At a quick glance, I have 743 notes stored in Apple Notes alone. I had more than that in Evernote, and let's not talk about the scattered notebooks ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are more of a cluttered archive than a useful tool? Maybe you’ve scribbled down ideas, bookmarked articles, or highlighted passages in books, only to find them ...

Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...