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Good Note-Taking Writing Apps?

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snakesayan

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Oct 10, 2011
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What is the best app to take handwritten notes with? Ima buy my iPad 3 this weekend (after selling my iPod touch for 150$), and wanna get my apps ready... I really like to take handwritten notes better than typing
 
After trying notability and Goodnotes, the best note taking app for me is Goodnotes. Although it is lacking some features such as the ability to add shapes, it is an extremely good note taking app that has been optimized for the iPad's retina display. The best feature in my opinion is the highlight tool. Instead of having a faint streak through the words you highlight, the app puts the highlight background to the text. This works on PDF files as well. There is a free version as well as a paid version so try it out yourself and see if it suits your needs when you get you new iPad.
 
Esoree said:
After trying notability and Goodnotes, the best note taking app for me is Goodnotes. Although it is lacking some features such as the ability to add shapes, it is an extremely good note taking app that has been optimized for the iPad's retina display. The best feature in my opinion is the highlight tool. Instead of having a faint streak through the words you highlight, the app puts the highlight background to the text. This works on PDF files as well. There is a free version as well as a paid version so try it out yourself and see if it suits your needs when you get you new iPad.
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THIS. Goodnotes is way more fluid and better looking. Notability is mediocre.
 
Notability is the best, it even let's you sync audio recordings with your notes. Reviewing your notes for class and want to know exactly what the professor was saying when you wrote that one specific sentence down? Tap the sentence and Notability will playback what was being said at that time!
 
Upad is the best IMO. There is a light version if you want to try it first.
 
DodgeV83 said:
Notability is the best, it even let's you sync audio recordings with your notes. Reviewing your notes for class and want to know exactly what the professor was saying when you wrote that one specific sentence down? Tap the sentence and Notability will playback what was being said at that time!
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Only works with typed notes. No synch for hand written notes.
 
omni said:
Upad is the best IMO. There is a light version if you want to try it first.
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I'll toss in my vote for Upad as well. I've tried notability, notes plus, and noteshelf. But Upad is the one I keep coming back to. I use it to annotate Power Point lectures for my classes and I think Upad is the best at that.
 
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