The FreshMeat website features a list of newly released, open source software.  I periodically browse through the site to see if there is anything new and interesting.  Earlier today, I found a link to a piece of software named Notalon.  Their website describes the application as one that is “designed to make taking Cornell notes faster and easier. It is written specifically for the task of taking Cornell notes, unlike a word processor.”  I had never heard of Cornell Notes, so I looked that up on the internet and found something that was very cool.  It is a method for taking notes in a class.  There is a good little explanation of how to take Cornell Notes at lifehacker.  I think I am going to have Kelly and Christian start taking hand-written notes at Sunday afternoon gospel meetings.  I am going to start doing that myself, too.  Then on Mondays we can do the post sermon review to finish the notes.  It will be great practice for when they get to college!  Of course, in college they can use a laptop computer to take notes for most of the classes.  I do not think it would work very well to use a computer for chemistry or math classes because of all the symbols, but the format still works and it would be great for just about everything else.  It almost makes me want to go back to college.  Almost.