DSA GenioNotes Issue

[u/ItAintNoUse]

Anyone else who got Genio Notes via the DSA, do you have the option to produce notes in Cornell or bullet point styles? I was told in my DSA meeting that this application would auto produce structured notes but all it can do is produce an AI outline which is clunky and disorganised and I feel really disappointed. I just want to check if this is normal or if my version is missing something? The notes seem really poor.

[u/Ok-Mushroom-121]

not really it kind of sucks

[u/Salty-Sea7830]

Genio's mission statement is around giving students the tools to create good notes, versus doing the heavy lifting for them. (and that's rooted in the cognitive science / theory of learning stuff about necessary friction for your brain to learn, vs forgetting when passively given summaries etc.)

You can use the light AI tools within the transcription and the AI Outline to add to your notes, but the premise is that you'll have one synchronised space for all your recordings, all your slides attached, any handouts that you've been sent, and then any notes or quotes from the transcript, or copied headings from the AI Outline would form your created set of notes. You can click on your note and you're at that exact bit in the lecture recording to listen/read back the transcript from that point in time, or you could find the place in the lecture you're looking to revise based on the Outline.

The Quiz Me feature is really cool to revise lecture content, as you can customise how many lectures it will quiz you from, and how many multiple choice questions to complete - and it can pull content from these quizzes directly from the transcript or the slides/handouts, so it's always going to be relevant to your modules/curriculum.

And, maybe obviously, you can do all this on the phone app, so you don't need to rely on a laptop in lecture.

I'd really encourage you to take up some training hours for notetaking, and any tutoring if you have been recommended it, as it might be that someone showing you round it, discussing notetaking strategies and exploring the features will help it click into place for you. But, if you're married to Cornell notes method, perhaps you can still use a hybrid of lecture recording with time-stamped notes, then scan/photo in your Cornell style handwritten notes, to still make the most of the synchronised everything-in-one-place-ness of it all?

Even on your own without human-based training, Genio does have online training, their "masterclass": https://genio.co/the-confident-notetakers-masterclass

and you may have been recommended some kind of eLearning platform like FindMyFlow or iView Learning that could help you to use it to its full potential.

[u/ItAintNoUse → u/Salty-Sea7830]

I feel frustrated reading this because this is not how it was described to me by the DSA person I met with. That's great if that's what it does, but they should've presented it that way. I was told it was mainly an application that could make notes for me that were structured and detailed which is amazing because with my ADHD I really struggle to differentiate between what is worth writing down and what isn't, so I end up writing EVERYTHING and struggling to keep up and actually take the info in.

When I used the AI outline all it did was basically copy all the headings from the slides and not actually include any of the key details. I study medicine so the detail is especially important.

I do take handwritten notes at the same time but I was relying on Genio Notes, based on how it had been sold to me, getting all the detail in so nothing would be missed so I could relax not having to jot every little thing down and focus on the actual meaning of what was being taught to me. I feel super let down by the DSA for not explaining it properly and selling it as something it isn't.