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Taking notes at conferences

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:44:00 -0400

With WWDC approaching we thought we’d write a short summary of best practices on how to use SubEthaEdit to collaboratively take notes at conferences together. So, what to do when you are sitting in a session eager to write down what has been said?

First open up SubEthaEdit and press ⌘K to see the Connections window. If you’re lucky, others on the WiFi are already taking notes of your session. If so, join ‘em!

If not, just make a new file with the “Conference” template, like this:

The template has some syntax coloring for headlines and metadata and makes it easy to take structured notes. Don’t forget to save your file under a descriptive name, e.g. “Session 101 - Introduction” and annouce it with ⇧⌘E.

Oh, and before you are typing away and having fun documenting your conference experience, here’s another tip: Conferences tend to have slightly shaky networking and WiFi. To make sure SubEthaEdit uses as little precious network bandwidth as possible for a quick connection, disable transfer of the full document history, in the Preferences, like this:

We hope you have fun taking notes at WWDC!

(Oh and btw: You can use our free trial to do so, it runs for 30 days and is available here.)

We’re very happy that Develop Magazine ranked us as 10th...

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:05:00 -0400

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Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:15:00 -0500

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Thanks, Mr. Levine! :)