The Apps in Law podcast is a fantastic podcast for attorneys looking to get the most out of an iPhone or iPad in a law practice. In each episode, Brett Burney interviews one attorney (or other legal professional), and the focus is typically on why that person finds one particular app useful in a law practice. I appeared on the podcast when it started in 2017 to discuss why I consider 1Password such an essential app. Burney recently invited me back to the podcast, and this time I decided to talk about GoodNotes, an app that I use to take handwritten notes on my iPad. We recorded the episode near the end of last year, and I see that the episode was posted yesterday.
In this episode, I talk to Brett about how I use GoodNotes, why I prefer taking handwritten notes on an iPad versus on paper, and why I prefer taken handwritten notes versus typing notes on a laptop. I also give some tips for getting more out of the GoodNotes app.
Once nice difference between Episode 4 that I recorded in 2017 and this new Episode 23 is that I’m now using a Blue Yeti USB Mic. (I’m not sure what I used in 2017, but it may have just been the headphones that come for free with an iPhone.) The Blue Yeti microphone produces audio that sounds so much better.
The timing of the release of this episode was very appropriate for me. I used GoodNotes extensively yesterday (and I plan to use it again today) to prepare an outline for an appellate oral argument that I’m giving tomorrow. I plan to use my iPad at the podium — the backlit, large iPad screen makes it easy to see my outline and related notes — but I’ll also export to PDF and print that out later today to have the paper version as a backup, just in case I need it.
You can click the episode link to listen to the episode on a computer, but I recommend that you subscribe to the podcast in your iPhone podcast app of choice (I use Overcast) to check out prior episodes and to learn about new ones as they are released. I learn something new from every episode.
Click here to listen to the episode in the Overcast app.
Click here to listen to the episode in Apple’s Podcasts app.
How do you connect the yeti mic to your iPhone
Although I suspect that you could do so, I always use a computer (Mac or PC) when I record a podcast. Recording a podcast on an iPad or iPhone is difficult because of the limits in the current operating system on recording audio. You cannot easily participate in a Skype call on an iPad while also recording the different audio feeds on the iPad. It can be done, but it requires extra equipment. For example, see this post:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/02/a-week-of-podcasting-with-only-an-ipad-pro/
There may be a time in the future when this changes and becomes easier without extra equipment being necessary, but for now this task works better on a computer.
On my Mac at home, the Yeti mic just connects to the USB port.
-Jeff