I was surfing around in search of a free, open-source note-taking application for Mac OSX. I have MS OneNote but it’s (obviously) MS-only (and I’ve already ruled-out running VMware). My classes this semester have lectures that progress at such a slow speed that it’s unnecessary for me to take my iBook to class because I’m more than capable of writing one sentence by hand every four minutes.

I do a lot of research via the computer and Internet, however, and need a program capable of organizing web-clippings, notes, rough drafts of essays/papers, important terms, bibliographies, etc.

So far, the only program I’m really pleased with is Circus Ponies’ NoteBook. It’s a tabbed-based organizational application that has a lot of fantastic features that get the job done (the only draw-back for me is that I’m a dual-platform bitch and NoteBook isn’t exportable to anything Windows can read). There’s a free 30-day trial, which I’ve used, and for students it only costs $30. But $30 is $30 and I’ve already spent $30 on the OneNote (The Partner gets a discount) for my desktop PC. I’m cheap, what can I say?

I’ve also just downloaded VoodooPad, but haven’t gotten a chance to really mess around with it. Unless I register it (i.e. pay for it), I’m limited to the number of pages.

The Partner just recommended looking into stand-alone wiki options, so I’ll shove off to do that.

The main reason for this post was:

I came across Stu.dicio.us, which I’d never heard of before:

Studicious is a service created for students, by students.

Our goal is to break down as many barriers as possible towards what should be the objective of all educational institutions: the free flow of information.

It’s an open community note-sharing space for all levels of education. Don’t you just love the Internet?