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Mobile Applications - Studying & Memory

This page provides information on apps that can help improve your study skills and your memory.

Anki & AnkiApp

Anki is a program that makes remembering things easy. It's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods. You can either greatly decrease your time spent studying or greatly increase the amount you learn.

Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless.

Anki Tips

  • Whenever you have material you need to memorize (foreign language words, historic details, names of different bones), create a flashcard in a "stack" with the information you need to know.
  • Go through the flashcards daily so you can commit them to memory. As you memorize the cards, this will take less time.
  • Check out shared Anki decks, which offer cards for topics like foreign language, science, and math.

Download Anki for Windows or download the mobile AnkiApps.

Brainscape

Brainscape's online flashcards optimize your studying by repeating harder concepts in the perfect interval for maximum memory retention. This smart flashcard app will sync between devices, give you the option to share or keep your cards secure, and track better metrics.

Brainscape applies decades of cognitive science research toward an optimal educational experience that drills you on bite-sized learning objectives. By organizing our millions of adaptive flashcards into a comprehensive "Knowledge Genome," we are laying the groundwork for a new global education hub where our atomic learning objectives can connect to any other type of educational media.

Follow this link to the Brainscape website or download it through Apple or Android app stores.

Simplemind

A mind map is a tool for the brain that captures the thinking that goes on inside your head. Mind mapping helps you think, collect knowledge, remember and create ideas. Most likely, it will make you a better thinker.

SimpleMind is a program that helps you create mind maps for brainstorming, keeping track of ideas, and showing there’s a method to your madness. You can also add pictures, videos, websites, and notes to your chart.

Available for download for Windows, Apple, and Android.

MyScript® Nebo

Nebo® is the best way to take notes, always here to help you be more productive, day after day. Designed for Windows 10 and active pens, Apple Pencil or Logitech Crayon and Active Pens like Samsung S Pen.

Structure your notes by creating titles, paragraphs and bulleted lists. Convert them instantly into Word, text or HTML format. Add interactive diagrams that can be copied as editable elements to PowerPoint or as images to other apps. Equations and calculations can be copied to apps supporting LaTeX or as images. Draw sketches and annotate images. Use the latest innovations of MyScript Interactive Ink to be more productive with your pen! Check compatible devices on MyScipt Nebo.

With Nebo, users can:

  • Draw interactive diagrams with elements you can edit and move around. Copy them as images to any app or as fully editable diagrams to PowerPoint.
  • Get a Word, text or PDF (iOS only) document out of your Nebo note. View your HTML note in Quick Look (iOS only) or your browser.
  • Find handwritten ink and text across all notes in your library, including in your diagrams.
  • Structure your notes using titles, paragraphs and bulleted lists. Convert your handwriting into typeset text.
  • Sync your notes to iCloud (iOS only), Google Drive or Dropbox. Requires a MyScript account (free).

Learn more information, including a video to see Smart Note in action and to download MyScript® Nebo for both Apple and Android.

Kurzweil 3000

>Kurzweil 3000TM is the comprehensive reading, writing and learning software solution for any struggling reader, including individuals with learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, attention deficit disorder or those who are English Language Learners.

Kurzweil 3000 is only available in physical computer labs for all UWF students. Visit the Student Accessibility Resources Kurzweil 3000 webpage for more information and resources.

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