In the swarm of new social networking/personal database websites popping up everywhere, here's a new application that I'm surprised didn't pop up earlier. MyNoteIT is an online app specifically designed for students. And, unlike Facebook, it is geared toward academics, not toward social networking.
The functionality of the application is well developed. MyNoteIT allows students to input a wide variety of information into their account, including class schedules, grades, due dates, contact information for classmates and teachers, as well as typed notes.
Through this database, students can search their own notes and the notes of others by keywords and by course so that they can easily find specific information they are looking for. In addition, by having "friends" listed on their accounts, students can read and comment on other people's notes. You can also email notes to others directly from the database. And, in case your computer is prone to crashing, there is an autosave feature that saves your work every 10 seconds, so it's basically impossible to lose work.
This has the potential to be a fantastic tool for students, and make it easier for people to organize their academic lives. But, I do forsee some problems with the tool:
In order for social networking/personal database applications to be successful, they have to integrate tools and techniques that people already use. Electronically organizing notes is not something done by a majority of students on a regular basis, and thus using this application would require students to do extra work. I am skeptical about how much it will take off.
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