Note Taker App Reviews

It is overall noticeably smoother on my 3G iPhone now. This program is the most comprehensive replacement for a paper pad youll find for the iPhone, written by one of the worlds most influential computer programmers. The new tagging system lets me use it as a true GTD-style reference database for notes now- Just what I needed! WARNING: This tool is somewhat advanced, requires some time investment to learn. Watch the video on the website to see it in action first, to make sure the program is what you expect, before buying.

this is exactly what i was looking for. a way to replace my notebook. i take many notes at work, from meetings, to calls and other items. the ability to tag gives me the option to search my notes over various criteria. (what i wasnt able to do with my physical notebook). i would like to see the ability to add tasks, by note, and to be able to tag those tasks. otherwise this is a great app!

To illustrate, last night I jumped out of bed and went to write down an idea for my iPhone app. I did it in Note Taker, fast, easy and outstanding. This is a great app that got even better with the upgrade!

This is by far my favorite iPhone App. It makes it very easy and convenient to take handwritten notes. I use it as a journal, to remember things I want to check out, to compose my thoughts, and to write little lists for myself. It does require some time to learn how to use, but once you know how to use it, its a pure joy!

I have used a lot of note taking apps and this is the one that just works. Perfect for taking notes any time, any place - works on the street or in the middle of the night. The app shows a lot of thought on how people take notes - and from a software legend.

I carried tiny notecards in my pocket with a little pen for years. It served as a way to capture stuff in my GTD-based system. Now I just need to carry a pen for those special moments when the server at the restaurant gives me a dry one. The uniquely ingenious UI on this app makes all the difference. Add a feature to let me set a default tag for new notes and this app would be nigh perfect!

Works well. Follow tutorial. Just wished I had thinner fingers 

This is so far an excellent program solving the problems of previous apps with digital ink . A lot of forethought went into this app and it certainly shows. I have already implemented it as my número uno input app, and I have found no faults so far. I have been using digital ink for many years with tablet pcs and pocket pcs and finally now the iPhone! Great work mr bricklin!!, this is "as good as it gets!" Dr Sellinger

I just deleted it. It is awkward to use.

Why is the drawing so laggy on the iPhone 4? You seem to be having trouble optimizing for the A4 since the iPad version shows similar problems recording smooth pen strokes. Disappointing.

Note Taker is a well-thought and working app with apparently active support. No glitches or annoying behaviors caused by lazy programming. If you want a truly useful app for notes, this may be the only one. I cannot take typed notes quickly with the other note apps. For $2 you cant go wrong. Saying that, there are improvements I hope Dan will make: 1. Sketching Improvements a. Include line straightening, curve smoothing, and snap-to points. My drawing skills are similar to what I see in the Note Taker videos; sure, it’s acceptable to remember something for later, but wouldn’t it be great to have nice looking sketches? Note, I dont want to have to pick a straight line or curve; I should be able to hand-draw those, and it will straighten and smooth them automatically. b. A few colors, maybe dashed/solid lines. 2. Include photos and audio on the note page. 3. OCR hand-drawn characters. I know this was problematic for a long time, maybe it still is, but for instance the Dragon folks do an amazing job translating speech into text. So maybe handwriting or handprinting could be OCR’ed?

This is the most amateur and pointless app i have ever downloaded. The line strokes are slow and laggy even though I have an iPhone 3GS. The user interface is really complicated, and the description is very misleading. There are free apps out there that do a far better job than this.

I must say that the iPad App has been a joy to work with. So much so that I recently purchased the iphone app for when I’m working outside of the office, and didn’t feel comfortable taking my iPad. Well I was pleasantly surprised to find the transcript and typed note feature in the iphone app. It would be even better if the transcript notes could be emailed along with the handwritten notes. As I see it you can only make a great app better.

It would be great tho if hand written text could then be converted to typed text for cleaner readability.

This app rocks the house! I take my school notes on it. Its perfect because in my engineering classes I have to take notes with lots of equations and diagrams. One page ends up being enough space for about a period of notes if Im conservative with space. Then I email into evernote for better organization and search-ability. Some things that need help: - line smoothing. The writing does end up being a little rough, so if something could be done to smooth out the lines that would be awesome. My writing ends up looking about like that on the tutorial video. - organization. I know the iPad version allows you to staple pages together, and would like to see that feature here. - color. Diagrams could be much easier to interpret if different colors were available - copy and paste. Obviously this has to be done differently than on a word processor. Just allow me to draw a closed loop and move all the writing in that loop to somewhere else. - import PDFs. Again, the iPad version has this and I think it would be a really handy feature to have. Even without these changes the app was well worth the $2. With these features I would easily pay more for it. Hint for those looking into the app: try the free version if you havent. The functionality on there is plenty for most peoples needs. I just felt it was worth it for the extra functionality for me, and I felt the developer deserved the money for a well thought out and executed app.

I read a lot of the reviews of this app before I purchased. I am not sure what all the people are calling great about this app. It is horrible!

Well that was a waste of time and money. Probably the most cumbersome interface of any app I have ever tried. CANNOT write or sketch over a jpg or pdf. CANNOT mix type and freehand in same document. CANNOT change color or lineweight. The only good feature is the ability to send multiple pages in a pdf but the pages are not worth sending. Just not worth the time or money. There are better apps such as Sketchbook from Autodesk. Very disappointing.

Ive had this app on my iPad for a year. I use it every day. Its a great app. I bought it for my phone too. I really wish there was a folder system for your pages (you can tag them, but folders would be great). There must be a simple reason that it cant be done because every thing else youd like to do is in there!! Buy it, youll like it!!

I like the app but its lacking that it doesnt export the typed text with the hand written. It also Looses on quality of the writing. I have downloaded and tried many hand writing apps and this appears to be the worst. Though the other features make it an excellent app. It would be even better if it could make a chart and export it as a csv.

I really like Note Taker. I am using it to scribble down thoughts on the go. My iPod Touch (2nd Gen) is always with me and this app works well for my purposes. I prefer scribbling to typing notes, because when typing I always need to watch that I hit the right letters or need to hold and slide to get a special character, while when I scribble my own writing might look bad to somebody else, but it is always readable, at least to me. Also to me scribbling down notes it just more fun. I tried the free version first and quickly decided to upgrade. I think the free version is a fair offering and everybody interested in Note Taker should try it before buying. I think Note Taker is a very good app, but of course it might not be the app for you. It is worth watching the videos on the website and going through the introduction. I use tags to organize my notes. For instance I tag notes *work* or *personal* and then I might attach another tag for a specific project. At first I thought it might be nice to stack notes, but now I think tags are powerful enough to get organized. I was a user of Apples Notes app before getting Note Taker and have now completely switched over. I am not using this app for sketches, although it is possible to create simple drawings. I think there are other apps better suited for that purposes.