A Complete Guide to Using Samsung Notes App Like a Pro There isn’t a shortage of note-taking apps on Android.Before the revolution of smartphones, we used to rely on a true and trusted pen/paper combo. Apple Notes vs Bear Notes: Which Note-Taking App Is Better… Note-taking has become essential these days.How Do You Take Notes on Your iPad?ĭo you take your iPad to the meeting or the classroom? How do you use it to take notes? Share with us in the comments section below.
If it fits your need, upgrade to the Evernote Premium plan. But as the app is free, it won’t hurt to try it out. Handwriting notes are available but transcription to text, saving them to Evernote and being able to search through them (a killer feature) is not. Penultimate is a free app to start with but unless you sign in using your Evernote Premium account ($4.99), the app will be limited. If you’re trying to create charts, the grid based background comes in really handy.
Once you’ve selected your stylus grip to avoid confusion, you can select the stroke you want, the color and also the background. Penultimate is a purpose built stylus based note taking app. I did it for the kicks but surprisingly OneNote held up better than I thought it would (I was predicting a crash).
I imported a 200 page PDF to OneNote and was able to annotate on it without many problems. Notes are infinitely scrollable – in form of pages. You can create a new note, choose the drawing tool, select your hand mode, and start drawing around. The app supports stylus input, palm rejection, and now it will even convert your handwriting to text. OneNote on iPad is a surprisingly well equipped note taking app when it comes to handwriting. We’ve talked about how you can use the Paper upgrade to brainstorm ideas, create flowcharts, mind maps graphs and more. For students, office workers and creative types alike, Paper is a great way to bring your next big idea to life.ĭrawing like a pro with Paper: With a recent release of Think Kit that includes tools for straightening up lines, copying smart objects and a sweet free hand fill tool, it’s time to upgrade your doodling skills.
Plus, the app is completely free and if you happen to have the Pencil stylus like I do, it’s a joy to use as well.Īs I’ve said, Paper is not meant to be a note taking app but it can be a really good creative outlet. But recently Paper introduced Think Kit, a set of tools that makes it easy to draw flowcharts, graphs and more. It’s a crazy, creative drawing/doodling app. Paper by FiftyThree is hardly a note taking app. I talked about Notability in detail when I compared it with Evernote. The app is available for just $3.99 in App Store. For students and office workers, Notability makes a lot of sense. So skipping to a particular part of the lecture will bring up the relevant notes you took. If you’re using the keyboard to take notes, the voice notes and the text notes are synced. Notability will also let you import documents like PDFs so you can draw over them and annotate. In just one note, you can start voice recording the lecture, use the keyboard to write, swipe with two fingers to move around the page and use the stylus to doodle/write. Notabilityįor students who want to take an iPad (hopefully with an external keyboard) to the classroom, Notability makes a lot of sense. And not just that, the ones that let you get the most out of the Bluetooth connection by enabling features like palm rejection and a basic level of pressure sensitivity. We’re talking about note taking apps that support stylus input. Today though, we’re not talking about the Pencil stylus.