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Sadly, CES 2026 did little to take away the distinct whiff of a shameless money grab from the world of high-tech, AI-enhanced note-taking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Hopkins for Mashable When you're a student, your notes are your lifeblood. With more online options than ever for note-taking ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

Google Keep is a go-to option for taking quick notes and creating lists on Android phones. Still, its limitations become ...

How many notes do you have saved on your phone? At a quick glance, I have 743 notes stored in Apple Notes alone. I had more than that in Evernote, and let's not talk about the scattered notebooks ...

Imagine this: it’s 2025, and your notes aren’t just static lists or scribbled reminders, they’re living, breathing ecosystems. With a single tap, your app connects ideas across projects, suggests ...

Charter tested seven different AI meeting-notes tools, some that take notes by adding a bot to virtual meetings and some that rely on data from your computer’s speakers and microphone without the use ...

Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...

Gone are the days when carrying around a pad and a pencil for notes is considered the norm. With the rectangular glass and metal slabs in our pockets getting increasingly more competent at undertaking ...