Squid Notes - Take digital handwritten notes for class, work, or fun! Markup PDFs, sign documents, & more

Squid is an inking app that works on Android (and Chromebooks as an Android app) and allows you to take handwritten notes, create drawings, markup PDF files and more. 

You can create beautiful notes at any zoom level and on any compatible device, erase entire letters and words quickly with the stroke eraser, move, resize, copy/paste and change color and thickness of strokes at any time.




There are a variety of "paper" styles as well, including lined, Cornell Notes and Graph Paper.

Great for math and science classes.

You can also mark up PDF documents, add notes, grade student work, combine PDF pages, import, crop and resize images, and more. 

In addition, you can easily share and present your notes. Export notes to PDF, PNG or JPEG, create a virtual whiteboard and present and write directly on your slides. 

They have a site dedicated to using Squid in the Classroom with tips, resources and use cases. https://www.squidnotes.com/edu



Squid recently published a series of how-to videos about Squid and have a product overview video and a case study with a 6th-grade math teacher.

They do not currently have a way to backup notes automatically to Google Drive (but are working on it), however, you can create manual backups to Drive: http://feedback.squidnotes.com/knowledgebase/articles/1185616.

G Suite for Education does not currently support payments for Android apps, so they have released the Squid EDU Bulk License for the Academic Year. When this license app is installed alongside Squid, the premium features will be unlocked for the academic year. For more details, please see this FAQ article.

The cost of the EDU license fro 2019-2020 is $4/user with a minimum purchase of $100 for the academic year.


Check it out: http://squidnotes.com and https://www.squidnotes.com/edu 




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Google Keep note taking app gets labels for easier organizing and recurring reminders

Google Keep, Google's easy to use note taking app, is a great resource for students and teachers. It just received a new feature that helps with organizing your notes, labels, and recurring reminders.

This makes organizing your notes/tasks/reminders easier. You can add as many labels as you like to a note to track it by tasks, project, category, etc. Along with color coding, you can really organize your notes better.

You can also now set recurring reminders. Reminders can be set by location (great for reminding you to do something when you get to a certain place, if you don't know what time you will get there) and by day/time. You can also set recurring reminders as daily, weekly, monthly or yearly or even create your own interval.

Keep also has the ability to share notes, create tasks lists, and even audio notes.






I use Evernote for most things, but also use Keep for quick notes on the go and for shopping lists, along with voice notes, and then I can share the notes to other apps, or just access them as needed. It's quicker than Evernote, but has less features. It is useful for students and teachers.

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Tips to Using Google Keep in Education

Google Keep, Google's easy to use note taking app, is a great resource for students and teachers. Here are some of the features:

• Easily, quickly, Create notes, lists, and audio notes
• Add photos to any note
• Hide and show checkboxes to turn notes into checkable lists
• View and create notes from homescreen and lockscreen widgets
• Selectable color for notes
• Safely sync notes to Google Drive and other devices
• Notes can also be used from http://drive.google.com/keep

I use Evernote for most things, but also use Keep for quick notes on the go and for shopping lists, along with voice notes, and then I can share the notes to other apps, or just access them as needed. It's quicker than Evernote, but has less features. It is useful for students and teachers. 

Here are some tips for using Google Keep in Education: (click link or image for full article). It has a nice intro to Google Keep and some great tips for students and educators. 

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