Tag Archives: Writing

Penultimate For iPad Now Free; Gets Evernote Sync & Handwriting Search

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Evernote is great if you want to make sure your idle scribbling and great ideas never get lost. There are times, however, when you don’t have enough time to type everything. Say, you are attending a lecture, and want to make notes quickly, your inclination might be to grab a pen and use your handwriting to get the work done. Fortunately, you can use your smartphone to achieve this in a really efficient manner. Evernote offers Skitch for annotating images, but if it’s a standalone sketching/handwriting app you want, give Penultimate a shot. Acquired by Evernote in 2012, Penultimate is a well-crafted, user-friendly sketching and handwriting app for the iPad. The app has just been updated with a revamped UI and Evernote integration, which includes handwriting search and the ability to sync all drawings and scribbles with your Evernote account. The character recognition makes your handwritten text searchable both from within Penultimate as well as any Evernote client. What's more, the app has gone free! Read More

MyScript Calculator Is A Handwriting-Based Number Cruncher For Android

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Android’s stock calculator app is handy enough to let users easily perform standard mathematical and scientific calculations. That being said, we’ve been frequently bringing you several useful and feature-rich alternatives in the form of CALCNEXT, AirCalc, Statistic Calculator and Handymate etc. Where almost all aforementioned options present you with a button-laden, tap-to-input calculator interface, MyScript Calculator takes an entirely different route to offer you a canvas on which you can draw/write mathematical expressions to get all the required answers. Supporting several basic mathematical operations and functions, the app has the capacity to automatically interpret input (user-drawn) data, complete with both the operator and the operands detection, and perform requested operation on any amount of operands that you provide via drawing. Interesting, isn’t it? What’s even more fascinating about MyScript Calculator is that, unless you wipe the canvas clear, the app lets you continue with further operations, thereby amending the results accordingly. It accepts input via finger as well as stylus, and supports palm rejection, with additional support for left-handed users. Read More

Grandview Is A Writing Pad For The Easily Distracted

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Distractions during work are normal, but there are some tasks that fall prey to procrastination more easily than others, and writing is at the top of the list. When you’re writing, it’s just you and your thoughts, and a text editor. In times like these everything from organizing the mess of icons on your desktop to adjusting your screen so that there is minimum glare seems like an extremely important task that should be done before you’re comfortable enough to start writing. Grandview is a free Mac app that gives you a distraction-free writing space. The ‘space’ is basically a big blank white void on your screen where you write; you can write such that you see a whole sentence once it’s complete or you can see the sentence as you type it. Read More

Storybook: Helper App For Writers That Stores Scene & Character Details

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Not everyone might be as creative as Christopher Nolan or J.R.R Tolkien, but with meticulous planning and the right set of tools, we can at least come up with mesmerizing storylines that we all aspire. Great stories are intertwined with deep character building, memorable plots, fantastic locations, and most importantly, proper connection among all the aforementioned elements. If you are a writer, novelist or someone who pens stories just as a hobby, you must have an idea that, in order to tell readers of what’s happening in a particular scene or a chapter of your book, you should understand it yourself first. Any overlooked element in your novel or book can mislead to various plot holes, which itself leads to unexpected criticism. To overcome this very reason, one comprehensive story writing software you can probably try is Storybook. The application is open source, and contains various features that one requires for all kind of story writing. It lets you work on your project, in a scene by scene manner, meanwhile tagging various characters, locations and other factors to an on going scene. You can store information regarding chapters, parts, scenes etc, to get an overview of where the actual plot is headed. Read More

Google Handwrite: Enter Search Queries By Scribbling On Your Smartphone

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After yesterday’s GTalk outage, Google appears to be on a roll today. In addition to the huge Google Earth update for iOS, Handwrite has also been unveiled a few hours ago. Handwrite is not an app, it is just a feature that has been added to Google’s web interface for smartphones. For now, Handwrite supports iOS and Android devices, and if you enable it on your phone, you will be able to write your queries in the search engine rather than typing them. This use of freehand scribbling certainly improves the time in which you can search for a particular keyword, and is more convenient than typing. If you are already making up your mind about Handwrite and all its potential downsides (not the least of which is the fact that people will have trouble entering longer queries), then wait a little more and read the rest of the article. Google has thought of just about everything. Read More

Interactive Theater: Script Editor With An Integrated Media Player

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We all appreciate fascinating storylines in movies, videogames, television shows and theatres – and sometimes most of us dream of creating our own, as they say "Everyone has a story to tell". Most of the writers who want to start working on stories get befuddled, not knowing where to start and how to start it. If you were looking for a simple tool that could help you in script writing for various media projects, you should consider giving Interactive Theater a shot. As every great story is backed by a powerful and exciting script, this software is developed to make script writing a lot easier, so you can focus more on the actual writing . It lets you play script-related media files from within the application, while allowing you to write script in a separate rich text editor. The software is more than capable and quite handy for those writers who often work on parody projects and theater shows etc.  What's more, all this comes with an extra topping of ergonomically friendly interface design. Read past the break for more details. Read More

Storify: Use Internet Photos, Videos & Text To Write Stories [iPad]

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Writing isn’t easy, specially if you have to start something from the scratch. A writer’s block occurs so frequently that there are many iPhone apps designed to let users overcome this bane of people who have to be creative on regular basis. When you surf the iOS App Store, you will come across apps like Opuss and Storytree, which are pretty good options for letting people write with ease, and overcoming any kind of mental block. Storify is a new app in this genre (although the web service has been around for quite a while), and using this iPad app, you can start creating masterpieces using (via drag and drop) images, videos and updates from various sources like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Google. Read More

Storytree For iPhone Makes It Easy To Start Writing A Story & Share It

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Every person who is even remotely related to writing, or just likes to take notes for fun, is sure to have run into a writer’s block on one or more occasions. Once you have a grasp over the main idea of anything you have to write about, and you get the first few words out, it is relatively easy to proceed with the creation of your masterpiece. Storytree is an iOS app that gives you a lot of ideas on what to write about, and you can also use this app to save and share your memories in the form of photos, videos and audio recordings using your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Read More

Antipaper Notes: Feature-Rich Handwriting App For Android Tablets

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Say hello to Antipaper Notes – a useful handwriting app for Android tablets that aims to enhance note taking & managing experience on Honeycomb devices. With Antipaper Notes, users can carry their notes with them and share images (PNG, JPEG) of their handwritten notes via email. The app sports an extremely simple-to-use, tablet-optimized interface with all the editing and navigating options always accessible at the top of the screen. Read More

TextRoom Is A Free Fullscreen Distracion-Free Text Entry Tool

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If you’re a writer, journalist, blogger, or anyone who has to perform a writing task on their PC and cannot resist the temptation to check your IM notifications, email client every few minutes, and all these activities are causing hindrance in your primary writing task, then TextRoom might be the answer for you. This tool provides a totally distraction-free writing environment as it works in full-screen, covering everything as you type. Read More