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NOTE’d Is An Impressive iPhone Notes App With Themes & Dropbox Backup

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A good notes app should be cosmetically well-designed, with users having the confidence that all their work is constantly being backed up somewhere. Other features, like support for image attachments and audio recordings are bonuses that you will rarely find in one place. NOTE’d for iPhone fulfills all these criteria, offering a perfect combination of useful features and a beautiful interface. You can divide your notes into several notebooks, each with a different theme, attach photos, audio recordings and maps to notes. You can put your important notes under password protection, and everything can be backed up (and restored) to Dropbox with a single tap. Read More

WorkFlowy For iPhone: Create & Sync Detailed To-Do Lists And Notes On The Go

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It is always nice to see the release of an iOS client for a web service that has been around for quite a while. The good thing about such apps is the way they usually offer cross-platform syncing, therefore making something even as simple as a text editor way more useful than other applications of its kind. We covered WorkFlowy a few months back, highlighting its features as a note-taking and task management utility offering comprehensive bulleting. The service is pretty useful as a web app, but imagine the possibilities if you have access to such a powerful to-do list manager on the go. That’s exactly what the new iOS app for WorkFlowy intends to do. The iPhone app is quite similar to the web one, and pakcs all the simplicity and efficiency that you require from a good note-taking app. You can search through your notes using the app’s universal search feature, and sync all your notes and to-do lists with your account, making everything available across all your devices. Read More

Everyday.me Auto-Creates A Journal From Your Social Media Feeds [iPhone]

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Keeping a personal diary can be fun, but most people shy away from this habit due to the effort it takes to find some time each day to write a new entry in your journal. If you own an iPhone, now there is a really easy way of starting and maintaining a journal, and that, too, without the sense of responsibility of creating a new entry each day. Everyday.me is an iOS app that writes your journal for you automatically. Of course, you can manually write in it whenever you want, but if you don’t feel like typing, just leave the work to Everyday.me and the app will extract your journal’s new entries from your social media activities. Everyday.me taps into your Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts to find relevant stories that can be put in your personal diary. You can edit any of those entries to include your own thoughts and photos, or there is the option to start a post from scratch and make it a part of your Everyday.me journal. Read More

Notes For GMail: Sticky Notes In Your Email Threads [Chrome]

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Google Mail has set itself worthy as an email client for both personal and office environments. With customizations like backgrounds, themes and integrated chat facility, it has become fairly popular amongst the users. Notes for GMail is a user-friendly extension for Chrome that allows you to annotate your emails by using sticky notes within your Gmail. Although these notes are private by default, you can instantly share them on Facebook or Twitter whenever needed. It blends in with the native Gmail interface and provides the additional functionality in a useful manner, independent of your settings. Now, you can add, delete, edit and share notes from your email for better organization and management of information from within the inbox. Each one of the notes has a timestamp for easy tracking and the option to create a comment thread for the better. Read More

AddNote: Select Text Anywhere In iOS To Save It As A New Note In The Stock Notes App

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Developers and tech-savvy people measure an operating system’s efficiency in terms of processing time, but a common user just cares about the number of steps it takes to perform any given task on a smartphone or computer. AddNote is an addon for the Action Menu Cydia tweak that has been designed for the convenience of all jailbreak users who often find the need to quickly create notes for, say, things they're reading on the web. The functionality offered by AddNote might not appear too significant at first glance, but when you think about it, almost everyone can make use of a tweak like this. AddNote adds a new button to the text action menu of jailbroken iDevices, tapping which allows you to save any selected snippet of text as a new note in the stock Notes app. Users are saved a lot of trouble by the tweak, and you just have to hit the AddNote button after selecting the desired text to make it magically appear as a new, standalone note in the stock Notes app. Read More

NoteBar Is An iPhone-Inspired Note Taking App For Mac OS X

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NoteBar is a Mac app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store that looks just like the stock iOS Notes app, even with the same features; you can add notes (the first line of a note becomes the title), long titles are shortened, notes can be searched and shared via email, exported as a text file, printed and copied to the clipboard. Even on the interface front, expect the buttons to be exactly where you find them on the iPhone app, with the only slight change being that the note background doesn’t look resemble a margined notebook page. Read More

Create Citation Notes & Save Them To Google Docs Spreadsheets [Chrome]

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Citable is an instant web clipper that easily lets you copy titles, URLs, author's name and other important information for your research sources. With it, you can also add notes, summaries, tags and additional reference information, which is then automatically saved in a spreadsheet in your associated Google Docs account. These notes enable you to keep track of all your references and allow collaboration with others online. Citable automatically saves website details, adding each note to a separate, numbered row in the spreadsheet, ensuring easier management and retrieval of all your research sources. With it, you can create, manage and organize notes/quotes with only a click or two. Moreover, you can print the notes or export them any time you want. Read More

Inkflow: Quickly Scribble Ideas In High Quality, Rearrange Them With Ease [iOS]

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Finger painting appears to be a popular app genre among iOS users these days. It’s not just “Draw Something”; there are also many other sketching apps that have managed to gather a sizable fan base. Most such apps come with a slew of colorful features, and that’s exactly what sets Inkflow apart from them. The newly released Inkflow doesn’t even have the option to change the pen color (in the free variant, at least), but it is still a good app thanks to the attention it pays to minor details like the smoothness of the ink, and extremely good responsiveness of the pen. The app can be used to write down lengthy notes quickly, or you can create monochromatic drawings using it. Inkflow comes with a pretty neat editor of its own, and you can select any portion of the page for resizing or moving to a new location in the document altogether. Read More

SwipeSelection Allows Easier, Gesture-Based Text Selection In iOS [Cydia]

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There isn’t much wrong with text selection in iOS, but needless to say, it could've been much more convenient. The area where the text to be selected is located, is usually hidden under your finger as you strive to move the cursor to an appropriate point. Also, users have to rely on the little magnifying glass that appears while seeking within text, and that can get a bit disorienting at times. This problem has been countered by a certain developer from the Cydia store, whose new tweak, SwipeSelection, makes use of gestures to make text selection really convenient for jailbroken iOS users. You don’t have to play a tedious game every time you want to edit a single alphabet in a whole paragraph once you have SwipeSelection installed on your iPhone or iPad. Read More

thinkery: One Place To Take Notes, Save Webpages & URLs For Later While Browsing

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With the massive amount of information online, sometimes we just can't keep track of all important and interesting content that we come across. This is where thinkery can help you out. This handy web application makes life easier by letting you focus on the important content, and access it instantly at any later time. Basically, thinkery is a bookmarklet available for all browsers (and an extension for Chrome) that allows you to quickly capture anything that comes to your mind, and save content that you come across on the web for future reference. With it, you can quickly save all important URLs to your thinkery account. Moreover, it lets you access or edit your saved content in a super-fast way, with instant search and tags. Read More

Characount Displays Character Count In The iOS Notes App [Cydia]

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An idea doesn’t have to be overly complicated in order to be brilliant and useful for the masses. This principle holds true for app development as well, and a clear testament to that is the Cydia store. Most of the tweaks available in the jailbreak store are single-purpose, and users still love them. Characount is the latest of such tweaks, and the functionality it offers is so simple, that you have to wonder why no one thought of it before. If you have ever used the stock Notes app in iPhone or iPad, chances are that the lack of any method of keeping track of character count might have annoyed you. A good word editor is never complete unless it can count characters and words, preferably in real-time. While Characount does not let you see the word count of your notes, it does the next best thing - it counts the characters your note is comprised of. There are many word editors with similar functionality, but having a counter in the stock Notes app is really cool. Read More

Moments Is A Highly Customizable Personal Journal For iPhone

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The practice of keeping journals might not be as common as it once was, but still, there are many people who get a strange kind of satisfaction in recording the events of their daily lives. As paper has been replaced by technology in almost all the areas of life, diaries are no different. If you want to maintain a journal, then it is better that you make use of your PC or iPhone, as that way your writings will have a longer life and you can protect your privacy more efficiently as well (you can’t put a password over a paper diary, can you?). If you own an iOS device, then you can make use of the stock Notes app to write your journal, but where’s the fun in that? There are apps which are there in the App Store specially for diary writing, and are customized to have all the features you are every likely to look for to express your feelings accurately. Moments is one such app, and if you are in to diary writing, it will be a pleasure to use. Read More

Add Notes For Each Conversation/ Email In Gmail [Firefox]

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Gmail’s interface cleverly deals with long email conversations by turning them into threads. It makes it easier to catch up on a conversation or to quickly go over a long one before you address the latest issue regarding it. The feature is pure genius and sure beats having to manually search your email for old conversations. The only problem that arises is when conversations get too long for you to skim through them quickly and that’s when you realize how convenient it would be if you could post a virtual post-it note on a conversation and write everything you need to know on it. While many note taking add-ons exist, none let you separately add notes for each conversation, none except Gmail Notes Sidebar. It is a nifty little add-on for Firefox that works with a the help of a web service at its back end. Gmail Notes Sidebar allows you to create notes for each conversation or email in your Gmail account. With Gmail Notes Sidebar, you can create notes to, let's say, summarize key points in a long conversation thread, or record notes from a follow-up. The add-on works via a separate web service which you will have to authorize to connect with your Gmail or Google Apps account. Notes are stored on the web service’s own servers and not to your Gmail account or local drive. Read More

Create Notes & Access Google Docs Through A Pop Up [Chrome]

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Notebook Professional is a simple note editor that can be used to copy selected text from a webpage, create to-dos/notes or simply jot down your ideas for later use. With it, you can create, manage and organize notes with a simple, list interface. NoteBook Professional automatically saves the entered text along with the time and date, whereas notes that are created by selecting text and sending it to the extension view the context menu are saved with the first few words of the text as the title. You can also switch between the HTML and Visual Editor mode. You can clip both images and text, and open Google NoteBook, or Google Docs. Read More

BigNote: View All Your Evernote Notes On A Single Virtual Noticeboard [Android]

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When it comes to selecting a convenient and feature-packed note-taking app, the popular cross-platform note taking, editing and sharing tool, Evernote, is undoubtedly the number one choice for many users. While the official Android client of Evernote is quite good at helping you with preparing text and multimedia notes, it is restricted to displaying the contents of just one note at a time on your screen (even in the tablet version). What if you wanted to take a look at all your notes from a specific notebook on the same screen? This is where BigNote for Android comes in handy. Fresh to the Google Play Store, BigNote presents all your Evernote notes from within a selected notebook on a single noticeboard of sorts (referred to as Notes board) that you can zoom in and out of - particularly useful on an Android tablet. That’s not all; you can also rearrange your notes on the noticeboard through simple drag-and-drop. The app also supports exporting the entire Notes Board as an image (JPEG) file so that you can share the notes with anyone on the go. Read More

Quick Well Free: Note Taking App Lets You Create Folders [Mac]

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Note taking apps focus mainly on creating stand alone notes. The majority of such apps support text content only, and very few will have any advanced text editing options. Quick Well Free is a free Mac app whose purpose is taking notes at the core, but lets you add images to them. The notes can be stamped with any date and time, and you may even add comments. Notes are grouped into folders, which makes it easier to keep them organized. While the app does not support any advanced text editing options, it does support adding images, and while some might argue the importance of using styled text in notes, it is actually more useful to be able to add images. Read More

NVALT: Create, Link, Sync & Encrypt Notes Across Multiple Devices [Mac]

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The Stickies app in Mac is bare bone when it comes to features, and doesn’t sync across your other Apple devices. Similarly, you will find few other note apps out there that will let you sync notes between two devices. NVALT is a free Mac app that lets you create as many notes as you like, lets you link one or several notes within another note, supports basic text-styling attributes like bold, italicize, underline and strike through, and much more. It also allows you to encrypt notes, and sync them across devices via a third party service SimpleNote. Notes are saved locally to your system and not to the cloud. Only when you enable syncing are the notes uploaded to SimpleNote’s cloud server. Read More

Create, Backup & Password-Protect Notes With Snap-it Notes For iPhone

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Creating notes on your iOS device is not something about which you worry too much. There is always the stock Notes app, and if you are a bit more adventurous, you can always look in the App Store where a plethora of notes apps are available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. However, that doesn’t mean that all notes apps are equal; some do have certain advantages over others. Snap-it Notes is an example of such note-taking apps that are pretty advanced, and let users do a lot useful stuff with the notes they create. For one, the app lets you add images to notes, and it is also possible to backup your creations to your desktop computer via iTunes. If you are privacy-conscious, Snap-it Notes has something for you as well, as you can put a passcode on it, and no one will be able to see your personal notes. Read More

Collector Notepad: Easily Catalog & Manage Collections With Photos

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Among many habits that people have for leisure and entertainment, collecting a particular type of item is a very common one among people. Specially the previous generations of humans, when computers and smartphones were not that common, collecting things used to be a very popular past time. People still collect different items, such as stamps, coins, buttons, key chains etc. If you are one of the dying breed of collectors, it is very important to manage your collections and have complete information for each item. One part of collecting items requires you to know where each item came from. When the quantity of collectibles is still low, it is not that difficult to remember where they came from, and when they were acquired, but when the quantity increases, you have to start taking notes if you want to remember the history behind them. Collector Notepad is an application for Windows that allows collectors to catalog their collectibles in a simple way. Read More

Collect Notes & Information Online, Access It From Any Computer [Chrome]

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Often while we browse the web, we need to jot down notes, copy text or save parts of a webpage for later use. Clipping Note, a Chrome extension, is a useful tool for collecting notes and information from the web. With it, you can also create multiple notebooks and categorize your notes accordingly. Once you’ve made your notes, they can be accessed from any other computer or shared with others. The extension requires a simple sign up, after which you will be able to create and save notes online. Read More