NoodleTools is an online tool that helps students take notes, organize sources, and create citations and bibliographies. It allows students to take three-part notes that link quotes to their sources. Students can organize their notes and sources into projects. The tool also provides outlines and allows dragging and dropping notes to create different organization structures. NoodleTools aims to help students stay organized while researching and writing papers in order to spend more time thinking critically about their topics.

1. NoodleTools Helps you use your “noodle”! Taking notes

4. Your work is organized into projects. Open a project you’ve started…or start a new one

5. Manage a project from your dashboard

6. Keep track of your goal and the assignments

7. Get feedback from your instructor and revise in an organized way

8. List view shows notes

9. Source Notes Your notes and sources stay linked !

11. Cut-and-paste first Author’s image Author’s words

12. You’ll get quotes and attribution right!

13. Reread and color-code information Red for problems Green for statistics Highlight main ideas

14. Annotating helps you understand

15. Explain it to yourself * *Using words that you understand

16. What do you think? I wonder…? “ To do” next

17. Add the main idea last

18. Add tags now…or later * * It’s easier to add tags when you know more

19. You can always go back to the source Sometimes rereading clears up questions

20. Use your tabletop to organize notes Your new notes

21. Sort notes however you like! Drag notes

22. Make piles Group notes that you feel belong together

23. Take as many notes as you need to! Your tabletop is larger than the screen A bird’s eye view

24. Label your notes with visual cues Add reminders, colors and tags

25. Build your outline on-the-fly…

26. … or create it before you take notes

27. Drag notes and piles into your outline

31. Don’t forget to follow your ideas !

32. Easy to add more sources if you need to!

33. … and your work can never get lost!

36. “ Noodle” time…start thinking! Questions? For more information: contact: Ms. Nardelli, Librarian [email_address]