NOTE SAVER APP

Prof. Mrunal Shidore, Sahil Kakurle

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

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Keywords —Note-taking applications. Mobile
Abstract — Note-taking is one among the devices. Tablets. Mobile phones
more common and ever-present learning
activities that form a very important a part of
all students’ daily lives. The potential of using I. INTRODUCTION
technology to reinforce note-taking activities Despite the actual fact that a lot of
has recently come under the spotlight. university lecturers have embraced innovative
However, while mobile technologies is also teaching methods like peer teaching and flipped
applauded for his or her mobility and also the classrooms, some still spend most of their time in
value they will increase students’ learning school, lecturing within the traditional way as they
experience, they might easily become a need always done (Bui et al. 2013). Therefore, it's
distracting factor, instead of the advance they perhaps not surprising that a lot of students still
were intended to be. during this qualitative franticly take notes in school within the twenty-
study, eight students volunteered to experiment first century. Note-taking is that the one activity
with various mobile devices for a period of 6 that lecturers don't must actively encourage, as
weeks, and to share their experiences in a very students seem to require notes automatically
series of 5 group interviews. Information found (Morrison et al. 2002; Bui et al. 2013) without
within the literature about note-taking, being prompted to try and do so. irrespective of
combined with the students’ feedback on their previous research that claims that computers are
experiences, provided insight into how students often used for note-taking (Bui et al. 2013), many
record and process information. The students still use the pen-and-paper method.
affordances of mobile devices for cognitively Current researchers support this finding by
demanding note-taking that are thought to be confirming that if students take notes with a
useful in an exceedingly teaching and learning mobile device like a laptop, they mechanically
environment were also discussed within the transcribe what the lecturer is saying, which ends
group interviews. All the scholars agreed that in shallow cognitive processes (Mueller and
they'd not commit themselves to using only 1 Oppenheimer 2014). The dilemma faced by
application or device. They emphasised the lecturers is that students are constantly attached to
very fact that they used over one device, and in their mobile devices (Maclachlan 2016) which it
some cases multiple applications on those therefore seems worthwhile to explore ways
devices, looking on their educational setting. during which those mobile devices are often used
this text gives students, lecturers and software for educational purposes. because the process of
developers insight into the affordances of note-taking is related to action words and phrases
mobile devices and note-taking applications like capture, recall (Piolat et al. 2004), learn,
(apps), so as to support cognitively demanding remember (Anderson and Armbruster 1986),
note-taking  concentrate, organise, record, and making
understandable and legible notes (Bui and
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Myerson 2014), this text focuses on the
affordances of mobile devices that make it of taking notes is so demanding, the plain question
possible for college kids to require cognitively is why lecturers don't simply provide students with
demanding notes. For this study, Baffordances of sets of comprehensive and well-written notes.
mobile devices^ refers to those qualities and Russell et al. (1983) found that if notes are
properties that mobile devices offer to enable provided it's better to allow students partial
cognitively demanding note-taking, while outlines only, as hostile full sets of notes, as that
Bcognitively demanding note-taking^ refers to the permits them to feature their own experiences and
cognitive processes that happen during note- observations, and thereby expand on the prevailing
taking, and to not the notetaking itself that's information. Also, Anderson and Armbruster
cognitively demanding. Student participants (1986) claim that the act of note-taking assists the
experimented with mobile devices in various coed with learning and remembering information,
educational settings and their experiences were and with storing it for later use. The way within
recorded and analysed. The affordances of mobile which students take notes differs from student to
devices that support note-taking were subsequently student, and from educational setting to
identified from the feedback. educational setting (Ward and Tatsukawa 2003;
. Badger et al. 2001; Bui et al. 2013; Boyle and
Forchelli 2014). Two ideas for further research
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
that emerged from the work of Boyle and Forchelli
The value of note-taking as a learning (2014) were that researchers needed to research
activity Much has been written about the academic the employment of notes in numerous content
importance to students of note-taking. for instance, areas within the universe of the coed, which the
the researchers Anderson and Armbruster (1986), impact of technology on note-taking skills should
Ward and Tatsukawa (2003) and Kobayashi be examined. to retort to the present call, this text
(2006) found that students learn and remember looks at the affordances of mobile devices that
information after they take notes, and are able to support cognitively demanding note-taking.
retrieve that information at a later stage. This 2.Note-taking with an device Note-taking with an
phenomenon was explained by Bui et al. (2013), device within the past decade many researchers
who stated that the more notes students record, the advocated the utilization of computers for
stronger the influence it's on their learning, as recording and summarising important concepts at
more information is processed. As far back as school. Bui et al. (2013) did a study where they
1925, Crawford (1925) found what Boyle and compared pen-and-paper note-taking with taking
Forchelli (2014) confirmed in an exceedingly notes on the pc. The authors found that although
more modern study, namely that if high-quality there was no difference in recalling information,
notes are recorded, learning and comprehension of the pc was better for transcribing notes than for
fabric improve. Students often complain about the organising them. therein particular study,
balancing act they have to perform at school by transcribing mentioned typing or writing as many
simultaneously trying to read from slides, hear the facts as possible, while organising involved
lecturer, critically engage with new constructs, and summarising facts before and while typing or
write legible notes. this can be confirmed by Piolat writing them. Furthermore, when students were
et al. (2004) and Bui et al. (2013), who state that tested immediately after they'd taken the notes, the
the method of note-taking is cognitively scholars who transcribed the notes achieved better
demanding. University students, and first-year scores than those that first organised them. When
students specifically, are battling with the question there was a time delay, students who first organise
of a way to capture and recall the flow of data in notes were more successful. When the researchers
traditional lecture periods for several years (Piolat allowed students who had only transcribed the
et al. 2004). this could be because students who notes to check them also, the advantage that the
take notes have to listen, organise the knowledge, scholars who had organised the notes had over
and so record it in a clear manner before it's time fell away. From the above, the belief is
forgotten (Bui and Myerson 2014). If the method created that computers can indeed be used for
note-taking with some level of success. However, Room is one of the Jetpack Architecture
care must be taken, because if one wants to Components in Android. This provides an
interact the student’s mind, notetaking has to be abstract layer over the SQLite Database to save
cognitively challenging, with technology playing a and perform the operations on persistent data
supporting role (Ward and Tatsukawa 2003), locally. This is recommended by Google over
instead of it being a distracter at school (Mueller SQLite Database although the SQLite APIs are
and Oppenheimer 2016). in an exceedingly more powerful they are fairly low-level, which
contrasting study, Mueller and Oppenheimer requires a lot of time and effort to use. But Room
(2014) wrote that when students record notes with makes everything easy and clear to create a
a laptop rather than within the traditional way with Database and perform the operations on it.. 
a pen and paper The authors argued that this is 1) Primary Components of Room
often because students typically try to transcribe 1. Database Class: This provides the
everything the lecturer says verbatim. main access point to the underlying
Furthermore, when students during this study had connection for the application’s
to require a test, those using the laptop persisted data. And this is annotated
with @Database.
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM 2. Data Entities: This Represents all the
tables from the existing database. And
A. Details of Hardware & Software annotated with @Entity.
Hardware Requirements: 3. DAO (Data Access Objects): This
contains methods to perform the
1.Laptop or PC  i3 Processor Based  Computer operations on the database. And
or higher annotated with @Dao.
1GB RAM 5 GB Hard Disk
2.Android Phone or Tablet
1.2 Quad core Processor or higher 1 GB
RAM
Kotlin ,Android Studio
2.Android Phone or Tablet
Android v5.0 or Higher

Technology Used:
Android Studio, Jetpack compose, Kotlin. .
D.Design Details
B. Analysis/Framework/Algorithm
● About Jetpack Compose:
Jetpack Compose is Android’s modern
toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and
accelerates UI development on Android. Quickly
bring your app to life with less code, powerful
tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs.
● What is Room? 
 VI. CONCLUSION
Note App built to improve transparency in the
blossoming note taking space. With the
unprecedented pace of innovation and cross-
pollination happening in the note taking space,
there has never been a better time to explore new
note app.

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Fig 3: Real-time working images of app [5]
https://github.com/akhilesh0707/Easy-Note/blob/
V. FUTURE SCOPE master/feature_note/src/main/java/com/aqube/
Taking notes using different color for each notes. notes/feature_note/data/data_source/NoteDao.kt
This method is a combination of longhand note [6]
taking and technology. However, with the https://github.com/juanchosaravia/KedditBySteps/
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likely to become more common among faculty [7] https://youtu.be/8YPXv7xKh2w
and students, just like many of the technologies
we use today. It will also work like reminder app
for checking important things in our daily
schedule
.