My lab partner showed me Onenote from Microsoft Office, which is a great program and allows you to put in all sorts of equations, lines, arrows, put text where you want; basically it just made sense if you wanted to take notes.
However, the main problem I’ve come across is that if you want to take notes, get a touch screen notebook so you can actually take notes, rather than sit there and type them out (or atleast I personally would prefer that despite the fact that yes I am a fairly fast typer, I think I learn more writing than typing)...
I think the main issue is that since wifi is basically a necessity nowadays at college, people find themselves attracted to the internet etc. and away from their classwork, everyone i’ve seen with their laptops in class (well not everyone, but close enough), will be chatting to their friends, facebook, you name it they are probably doing it besides paying attention and taking notes.
I however want to get something like the Eee PC or some ultra portable for a cheap price that I can take to class and take notes on, because my iPod touch won’t cut taking notes as easily as a mini pc, as opposed to my behemoth 17” e1705