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Notetaking is considered, by many educators, as one of the critical actions of learning. There are several note-taking methods and approaches. Based on these methods and approaches, various applications, whether mobile, desktop or -Web-based, were developed. In this paper, a novel note-taking application based on a technique, known as Cornell Technique, is presented. For the software development process, Incremental Model was adopted. Requirement Analysis included, aside from examining principles and related note-taking structure of Cornell Technique, investigating (i) how to perform notetaking as an activity of learning, (ii) its product and (iii) relationship of notes for the purpose of storage. Models containing sub-activities, such as reviewing note have been identified and some were selectively adopted and related functions such as review alert (tickler) and collaboration on notetaking have been implemented. To the purpose of storage, a tree-based scheme called collection was modelled. User interfaces were first designed as mockups and click-through prototype using Adobe XD. The mobile application was implemented in Dart programming language. Google’s Flutter Framework was adopted to have flexibility in UI development. The application has been published in Google Play Store for users to install for free.
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Demirelli, H., İşler, Y., Yüce, Y.K. (2024). A Mobile Application for Taking Notes Based on Cornell Technique. In: Wang, B., Hu, Z., Jiang, X., Zhang, YD. (eds) Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning. ICMTEL 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 532. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50571-3_1
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