Time to get serious about the iPad!
I was playing with some notepad apps awhile back. I find that Notability is the one I write best in if I want to use a stylus.
My needs are this: I work for an events company. I've been there since late 2009, so two full seasons plus the late 2009 events. We put on over 2 dozen events and I am involved in almost all of them - and I have two roles in some. We have weekly meetings and I do take notes, BUT last fall I switched to a bigger notebook, which I needed to carry more around with (and my old one was almost full). Downside is that I don't have my old notes to refer to anymore unless I carry both around PLUS I just write things out in the book as each day goes, I don't have categories for everything. I also had no desire to create a binder for each event - especially if I had to store them at my house! (I work from home a lot)
I'd like to use the iPad to gather everything up for me. The boss caught me off guard the other day by printing out our reports of a race last year and she had MY notes in her hand and I'm so glad she read them as they were important thing I had forgotten about.
Now, I love the look of the Paper by 53 app. When you go in, there is just a row of notepads that can all be titled. I was envisioning one for each event. But I'm not sure it will import and frankly that app depends way too much on gestures. Every time I'm in there I get stuck somewhere.
So back to Notability. It looks like I can take pix of my old notes with DocScanHD (I have the free version). With this I can import into Notability, though it won't convert to text (probably can't read my writing anyway lol).
I can of course type and write new notes. I think I can also import or copy old emails into each notebook too.
It does have a recording option - how good is that? Is there a limit to how long it can record for? I read a post here on AudioNote, how you can click on what you wrote and it will go right to that part of the recording. That's a pretty cool feature.
Ideally I'd like to have one app do as much as possible and avoid buying to many to test.
Some sort of synchronization with my laptop and/or the cloud may be helpful.
Oh - I did also download Evernote the other night, have not played with that much yet but it has good reviews. Not sure it can do everything I am looking for though, ie can I handwrite in it?
So I'd love to hear from those of you who are using your iPad to do things like this with!
Thanks!
Diane
I was playing with some notepad apps awhile back. I find that Notability is the one I write best in if I want to use a stylus.
My needs are this: I work for an events company. I've been there since late 2009, so two full seasons plus the late 2009 events. We put on over 2 dozen events and I am involved in almost all of them - and I have two roles in some. We have weekly meetings and I do take notes, BUT last fall I switched to a bigger notebook, which I needed to carry more around with (and my old one was almost full). Downside is that I don't have my old notes to refer to anymore unless I carry both around PLUS I just write things out in the book as each day goes, I don't have categories for everything. I also had no desire to create a binder for each event - especially if I had to store them at my house! (I work from home a lot)
I'd like to use the iPad to gather everything up for me. The boss caught me off guard the other day by printing out our reports of a race last year and she had MY notes in her hand and I'm so glad she read them as they were important thing I had forgotten about.
Now, I love the look of the Paper by 53 app. When you go in, there is just a row of notepads that can all be titled. I was envisioning one for each event. But I'm not sure it will import and frankly that app depends way too much on gestures. Every time I'm in there I get stuck somewhere.
So back to Notability. It looks like I can take pix of my old notes with DocScanHD (I have the free version). With this I can import into Notability, though it won't convert to text (probably can't read my writing anyway lol).
I can of course type and write new notes. I think I can also import or copy old emails into each notebook too.
It does have a recording option - how good is that? Is there a limit to how long it can record for? I read a post here on AudioNote, how you can click on what you wrote and it will go right to that part of the recording. That's a pretty cool feature.
Ideally I'd like to have one app do as much as possible and avoid buying to many to test.
Some sort of synchronization with my laptop and/or the cloud may be helpful.
Oh - I did also download Evernote the other night, have not played with that much yet but it has good reviews. Not sure it can do everything I am looking for though, ie can I handwrite in it?
So I'd love to hear from those of you who are using your iPad to do things like this with!
Thanks!
Diane
