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Note-taking on the iPad 2
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"Stupid is as stupid does"
Get it?
And you probably drive a car that has neon lights all over, and nice expensive rims.
Noteshelf seems to have ink smoothing now. It works really good.
Doesn't allow you to crop images when importing them, and it doesn't treat them as objects that old be relocated, like Notability does.
But it has a great feel when writing, erasing, etc., unlike Notability.
I have the latest build of Notability, and it has improved a lot. The developer is very proactive about it.
Notes Plus, I tried gain, but ended up deleting. It has a terrible feel when writing.
I was using A note and syncing to all computers via the Evernote sync function- except it kept removing all my attachments each way on the sync. If they could fix this, I'd be an A note user for ever!
i think i find a new professional note taking app for Ipad
i do not use anymore EverNote and Awesome Note because i have discovered recently a very good app called " Beesy "
I have been using Ipad for 2 years. I used EverNote and then Awesome Note for a long time and their ability to sync but both had a disadvantage ; the lack of features to accommodate tasks, to-do and make monitoring
So i was seeking an alternative app to save time for my meeting. I have almost testest all the apps on Notes/ ToDo on the APPstore and I must admit I am still surprised they do not fit with a pro use. I have just discovered Beesy, an note taking and management app ToDo which apparently include taking notes with a business way. I have tried for several days and until now i'm really satisfied by Beesy. It's really efficient and maybe the only disadavantage is you need time to use it efficiently. I guess this App really deserve we spend a little bit time to understand it
I love shortcuts of Beesy's icons in order to use it quicky and easily add notes. Also, the advantage is to submit easily by email minutes about my different meeting
Guys, if yu are interested yu can google "Beesy" of go to the website http:/www.beesapps.com
i do not use anymore EverNote and Awesome Note because i have discovered recently a very good app called " Beesy "
I have been using Ipad for 2 years. I used EverNote and then Awesome Note for a long time and their ability to sync but both had a disadvantage ; the lack of features to accommodate tasks, to-do and make monitoring
So i was seeking an alternative app to save time for my meeting. I have almost testest all the apps on Notes/ ToDo on the APPstore and I must admit I am still surprised they do not fit with a pro use. I have just discovered Beesy, an note taking and management app ToDo which apparently include taking notes with a business way. I have tried for several days and until now i'm really satisfied by Beesy. It's really efficient and maybe the only disadavantage is you need time to use it efficiently. I guess this App really deserve we spend a little bit time to understand it
I love shortcuts of Beesy's icons in order to use it quicky and easily add notes. Also, the advantage is to submit easily by email minutes about my different meeting
Guys, if yu are interested yu can google "Beesy" of go to the website http:/www.beesapps.com
Well, the day that using pen and paper will support my objective of going paperless, I'll consider it
My History with Handwriting apps ...
Note Taker HD
The first one I settled on was Note Taker HD. This was quite a long time ago. I was excited about how well the zoom window worked. However, now nearly all good handwriting apps use a zoom window. Things may have changed for this app by now, but back then there were two things I didn't like about Note Taker HD - (1) jaggy marks when zoomed in. Seems the smoothing wasn't very good. (BTW ... other apps that boasted "smoothing" were over smoothing - and missing some of the intended characteristics of the stroke.) (2) The second thing that I didn't like about this app was it's GUI interface. The organization was lacking a bit. I found quickly found another app that addressed both of these dislikes, and also used the zooming window feature that I did like about Note Taker HD.
UPAD
IMO, UPad is still a fantastic handwriting app. I still think it has one of the most accurate stroke recognition engines out there. It's very quick and accurately follows the intended stroke with a fantastic balance between filtering and accurately. It's great. There's only one thing that I feel could improve UPad ... that would be how the ZOOM WINDOW ADVANCE FUNCTION works. As it is, (and, by the way several handwriting zoom windows work this way ) when you enter into that last bit of the zoom window, the app waits for writing to stop for a short amount of time - and then snaps the window to the next section. That works fine for about 80% of the time - but being in the MIDDLE OF A WORD RIGHT THERE, or, having to dot an "i" or cross a "t" right there sometimes was not done quickly enough by me. The dotting and crossing was done in the next section. Also, since this happens often, you enter into a mode of writing quickly - which causes you to become messy! Still, this is a great app - and probably one of the best as far as accurately following intended strokes. But I soon found a better app that addresses this complaint.
Notes Plus
Since I have been investigating several handwriting apps - I have populated a "HANDWRITING APPS" folder on my iPad with several apps. I have bought, tied, and quickly wrote off several that have just sat in that folder unused! One day, I decided to go back and try a few of them again since it had been quite a while since I originally bought several of them. Notes Plus was one of those that I bought back in the beginning. I quickly found that it has gone through lots of changes - I was pleasantly surprised! If you haven't tried this app lately - you owe it to yourself to give it another try. You may have been like me and just wrote it off in the past, but may be pleasantly surprised by it now.
Here's what I really like about this app - it's ZOOM WINDOW ADVANCE FUNCTION ! There is no "marked off" last section visible to you. But once you write past 50% of the window, you then see the end of your writing repeated in the starting third of the window. Why is this great? Because, you have the choice to use either the remaining last half OR start over in the first third! Either way is fine. If you just ended a word, then start the box over - but if you're in the middle of a word, well, then just complete it. This app is the only one that has really solved the problem of a zoom window being as seamless as possible to a natural workflow of writing!
There are a lot of bells and whistles about this app, but for basic handwriting - and really using that feature - this seems to be the best app out there.
Please let me know if there's another app that works it's zoom window like this!
Perhaps there may be a better app I still need to find. I look forward hearing recent updates from other. Like I said earlier, it's hard to keep up ... things are constantly changing!
Note Taker HD
The first one I settled on was Note Taker HD. This was quite a long time ago. I was excited about how well the zoom window worked. However, now nearly all good handwriting apps use a zoom window. Things may have changed for this app by now, but back then there were two things I didn't like about Note Taker HD - (1) jaggy marks when zoomed in. Seems the smoothing wasn't very good. (BTW ... other apps that boasted "smoothing" were over smoothing - and missing some of the intended characteristics of the stroke.) (2) The second thing that I didn't like about this app was it's GUI interface. The organization was lacking a bit. I found quickly found another app that addressed both of these dislikes, and also used the zooming window feature that I did like about Note Taker HD.
UPAD
IMO, UPad is still a fantastic handwriting app. I still think it has one of the most accurate stroke recognition engines out there. It's very quick and accurately follows the intended stroke with a fantastic balance between filtering and accurately. It's great. There's only one thing that I feel could improve UPad ... that would be how the ZOOM WINDOW ADVANCE FUNCTION works. As it is, (and, by the way several handwriting zoom windows work this way ) when you enter into that last bit of the zoom window, the app waits for writing to stop for a short amount of time - and then snaps the window to the next section. That works fine for about 80% of the time - but being in the MIDDLE OF A WORD RIGHT THERE, or, having to dot an "i" or cross a "t" right there sometimes was not done quickly enough by me. The dotting and crossing was done in the next section. Also, since this happens often, you enter into a mode of writing quickly - which causes you to become messy! Still, this is a great app - and probably one of the best as far as accurately following intended strokes. But I soon found a better app that addresses this complaint.
Notes Plus
Since I have been investigating several handwriting apps - I have populated a "HANDWRITING APPS" folder on my iPad with several apps. I have bought, tied, and quickly wrote off several that have just sat in that folder unused! One day, I decided to go back and try a few of them again since it had been quite a while since I originally bought several of them. Notes Plus was one of those that I bought back in the beginning. I quickly found that it has gone through lots of changes - I was pleasantly surprised! If you haven't tried this app lately - you owe it to yourself to give it another try. You may have been like me and just wrote it off in the past, but may be pleasantly surprised by it now.
Here's what I really like about this app - it's ZOOM WINDOW ADVANCE FUNCTION ! There is no "marked off" last section visible to you. But once you write past 50% of the window, you then see the end of your writing repeated in the starting third of the window. Why is this great? Because, you have the choice to use either the remaining last half OR start over in the first third! Either way is fine. If you just ended a word, then start the box over - but if you're in the middle of a word, well, then just complete it. This app is the only one that has really solved the problem of a zoom window being as seamless as possible to a natural workflow of writing!
There are a lot of bells and whistles about this app, but for basic handwriting - and really using that feature - this seems to be the best app out there.
Please let me know if there's another app that works it's zoom window like this!
Perhaps there may be a better app I still need to find. I look forward hearing recent updates from other. Like I said earlier, it's hard to keep up ... things are constantly changing!
I am using Evernote currently and although it doesn't do a lot of things I would like, the one main thing it DOES DO is snyc across my iPad2 and my MBP.
I am project manager and I find myself in a TON of meetings. Sometimes I work on my iPad, other times I work on my MBP so I really need the ability to sync notes across both. Everytime I look for a new note taking app, this is one of the first things I look for.
An iPad only app just doesn't work for me.
I am project manager and I find myself in a TON of meetings. Sometimes I work on my iPad, other times I work on my MBP so I really need the ability to sync notes across both. Everytime I look for a new note taking app, this is one of the first things I look for.
An iPad only app just doesn't work for me.
I've been taking notes daily on my iPad for almost 2 years now, and the system I have devised is to use Notability for anything freehand, such as drawing a diagram, and using Pages for everything else. I love love LOVE using pages due to its seamless tie in with iCloud, and one month from now when Mountain Lion rolls on out, your mac will also seamlessly tie into this system as well. Its great because if your on the go and you need to look at your notes real quick, or make a note real quick, its right there and you know it will go to all of your other devices. When the time comes to do something freehand, I'll make it using this sylus (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Targus+-+Stylus/1151337.p?id=1218226504600&skuId=1151337), take a screen shot, and embed the screenshot into pages. If you need to type anything onto the diagram/freehand, you can choose to do it in Notability, or Pages (you can accomplish this in pages by inserting a text box). Finally, as you know, when you take a screen shot, you get the WHOLE screen, so to eliminate this problem while inserting your diagram/freehand into pages, you can do a quick mask, which essentially crops the screenshot. Also, when your done with your document, as you may or may not know, you can export it/share it in three different formats; as a Word Document, as a PDF, or as a Pages file.
I know its a lot to read, but this is what I personally have found best over my year or two of experience. Buena suerte amigo
I know its a lot to read, but this is what I personally have found best over my year or two of experience. Buena suerte amigo
This is OFF TOPIC I know, but I take screen shots a LOT !!! I wish iOS had some settings option to take a screenshot without the top border stuff ... I.e. eliminate that black bar that the top with the
AT&T | wifi strength icon | time | battery percentage icon | information from your screenshots !
I've tried pretty much every iPad notetaking app under the sun, and by far my favorite is Notability. When I take notes, I generally want them to be mostly typed, but with the occasional handwritten or drawn diagram or equation. While multiple apps let you use both handwritten notes and typed text in the same document, Notability handles it best in my experience.
BUT there are still some very large rough edges, and the experience is not nearly as good as I hoped it would be. It got the job done, in a pinch, but I found the total experience inferior to just using a pencil + paper and scanning it afterward.
I would love to be able to go paperless and use the iPad for all note-taking. I think the day is coming when that is possible, but we're not there yet. As of now, I cannot honestly recommend iPad-only notetaking in a school environment.
BUT there are still some very large rough edges, and the experience is not nearly as good as I hoped it would be. It got the job done, in a pinch, but I found the total experience inferior to just using a pencil + paper and scanning it afterward.
I would love to be able to go paperless and use the iPad for all note-taking. I think the day is coming when that is possible, but we're not there yet. As of now, I cannot honestly recommend iPad-only notetaking in a school environment.
I can understand that, dws90, if you take mostly typed notes. That would make sense. Personally, I just love to hand write ... and I really love to hand write in cursive. I think the "best app" for someone may depend on what they use the app for. For doing letters, I like Notes Plus, hands down. Again, it's close up window continuation functionality is the best for continuous writing, which is a big factor that pushed it over UPad. However, for layout design, I am coming to like Noteshelf a lot. The cut and paste function is slightly easier than Notes Plus ... and the background paper choices is much better.
I guess I like following lots of apps. I'm hopeful that they will all copy the best features from each other.
For example:
I wish they all copied Note Plus' close up window continuation functionality.
I wish they all had the rich paper selections of Noteshelf
I wish they all were as responsive and accurate, with the balance of smoothing, for the intended stroke as UPad.
etc ...
I'm sure they will all only get better and better in time
I guess I like following lots of apps. I'm hopeful that they will all copy the best features from each other.
For example:
I wish they all copied Note Plus' close up window continuation functionality.
I wish they all had the rich paper selections of Noteshelf
I wish they all were as responsive and accurate, with the balance of smoothing, for the intended stroke as UPad.
etc ...
I'm sure they will all only get better and better in time
Remarks was just updated to be faster and include audio notes. Pretty sweet updates if you ask me
Remarks was just updated to be faster and include audio notes. Pretty sweet updates if you ask me
Couldn't agree more - after an evening of taking notes during a meeting, the speed improvement is quite noticable.
Remarks was just updated to be faster and include audio notes. Pretty sweet updates if you ask me
Has they increased the zoom level for zoom writing box? Someone told me it was 2X maximum in 1.2 or 1.3.
Also, is the audio embedded in the pdf file or saved in a separate file?
Zoom level hasn't changed, I think. It's still 2x, which is still a little bit too zoomed out for my liking as well.
I've just tested with an audio note and as far as I can find the file is doesn't seem to include the audio at all. Not even in a separate file. A little disappointing but I guess it's a work in progress.
Audio recording works for me, but only after I discovered my volume was switched down all the way (can't remember I did that myself, so maybe Remarks did something on first launch?).
I couldn't find an audio file myself either...
Interesting, neither embedded nor synced as a separate file? Hope they fix this otherwise it's pretty useless. Remarks is one of the few (maybe the only one?) note-taking app (excluding apps like goodreader or iannotate) that does real two-way sync(notability only does auto-export which shouldn't be called sync at all) so I always keep an eye on it.
At least when I either upload or email the Remarks file that holdq an audio recording, in both cases I end up with just a pdf file.
As to the iPad itself, I've always assumed that app data somehow become part of the app and are somehow embedded in the app. Of course I may be wrong, but still I wouldn't know where and how to look for this audio file in particular on my iPad.
Seems to me though it could be found digging through an iTunes made backup of the iPad (I do my backup to the cloud).
Hi JazzyFizzle,
I've taken lots and lots of notes with a note pad and a pen ... but I can't seem to find them right now. However, the notes I've taken on my iPad are all in one place. Also, I don't really think I'm trying to look cool ... most of my notes are not really taken in front of anyone. In short, I think I would be a datapoint where your assumptions are wrong.
just saying ...
If one is taking notes on lecture notes with 40 plus pages he wouldn't think so, it's a huge pain in the ass when you need to do revision and realize you have to carry a thousand pages with you.
For this reason, note-taking app that can't import PDF never has a place for serious note-taking I reckon.
Also, taking note on iPad looks a bit silly sometimes, can't understand where the heck did that looking cool judgement come from.
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iTakeNotes
They are plenty of apps to take notes on your ipad but very few are really productivity apps able to generate structured reports. Writing down meeting minutes or meeting reports is a painful process which is time consuming.
iTakeNotes has been released on the appstore recently: the principle is to formalize notes during the meeting and get a meeting report as soon as the meeting is over in pdf and in .txt if you want to review the format. They provide audio recording and camera so as not to lose any data during the meeting. The app exists in english and french and a spanish version is on its way, it is a very productive tool for those who spent desperate time formalizing their meeting notes.
Available on iTunes for $2.99!
They are plenty of apps to take notes on your ipad but very few are really productivity apps able to generate structured reports. Writing down meeting minutes or meeting reports is a painful process which is time consuming.
iTakeNotes has been released on the appstore recently: the principle is to formalize notes during the meeting and get a meeting report as soon as the meeting is over in pdf and in .txt if you want to review the format. They provide audio recording and camera so as not to lose any data during the meeting. The app exists in english and french and a spanish version is on its way, it is a very productive tool for those who spent desperate time formalizing their meeting notes.
Available on iTunes for $2.99!
I'm using Moleskine for handwriting during meetings. I have just started trying to use my iPad mini as a hand writing instrument. Of the different apps that I've tried, Moleskine is the only one that advances to the end of the line and then returns to the beginning of the next line automatically while you are writing. The UI is designed so your wrist is not a problem while writing, but the typing feature is too sluggish to use 'real time' if needed.
Can you tell me if Notability will do the auto advance/return to next line feature? It is my primary requirement.