I use the app Teacher Notes(it's free!) to take quick notes on students. I love that I can tag a single note to multiple students. Everything from a note saying that they are struggling with a certain concept, or a note saying they did not have homework that day, or even my notes from individual writing conferences, this app lets me quickly record my notes on students. You can then email them to yourself to save or print out to use for parent conferences. The same app on the iPad has the feature that let's you graph the number of notes per student so you can quickly see which students have the most/least notes. I prefer my iPhone though because it is small and always with me.
I use the app Teacher Notes(it's free!) to take quick notes on students. I love that I can tag a single note to multiple students. Everything from a note saying that they are struggling with a certain concept, or a note saying they did not have homework that day, or even my notes from individual writing conferences, this app lets me quickly record my notes on students. You can then email them to yourself to save or print out to use for parent conferences. The same app on the iPad has the feature that let's you graph the number of notes per student so you can quickly see which students have the most/least notes. I prefer my iPhone though because it is small and always with me.