I've been loving Android since the day I switched from IOS, but to this day, I still can't find a good note-taking app (mostly for typed-in notes). On IOS, there are many of these apps that allow typing, drawing, recording audio, outines, fonts, colors, etc (AudioNote, Notability, etc)...
However, in Android, I can not seem to find a singe app that allows me to combine typed-in notes, hard-drawn drawings and audio recording.
I thought those were pretty basic requirements, and they are in teh IOS world - just wondering if I'm missing something or if maybe it's a market just waitng to be had for ANdroid?
Thanks for any help you can offer! I'm currently using EverNote, but it doesn't offer the ability to draw... I see that they just released Skitch as a companion app for EverNote that is for drawing, but it's really not integrated into Evernote...
Thanks Again!
You can try Extensive notes. It has options for those notes, but not all together in one. You can make a folder that has all the files. You could try emailing the Dev and ask if you can attach drawings to regular notes. I usually just use Extensive notes or beautiful notes for typing and handrite for drawings.
I've been using tabnotes. It's not bad at all. Wish I could cut and paste inside the note like on xournal, but other than that, it's great.
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Freenote might be what you are looking for. Though it's not tablet optmised.
I use evernote, but its just really a rich text editor.
THanks for all of the suggestions guys - I'll check them out!
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Note Everything can do text, paint, photo notes. And more. I been very happy with it. You can make a paint note and use a thin line to write with.
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If you have Evernote installed, and its sister app Skitch, you can you pretty much do whatever you want.
Another great app is Freenote which allows you to type, draw, handwrite, take photos and import/export pictures.
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Any of you use this phone for taking notes during college?
I'm looking for a nice app to take college notes (something like ms paint, because standard android drawing apps won't let you draw straight lines)
Please share your experience!
Jeroen
Skitch or Smart Diagram
Skitch and Smart Diagram both allow drawing of lines. I think both are free, although the free SD version has a limit on document numbers.
Skitch has the advantage of a free-form note and integration with Evernote (a beautiful app if ever there was one).
phatpad is also another paid app and works well with the Note.
If you go to their website, you can try it free for 24hrs by downloading the apk.
I'm not a student but there are apps like Soonr Scribble, ezPDF and iAnnotate that allow drawing and scribbling on top of your documents, etc. Then there are also Mindjet, and Epistle. Would like to hear what others have to say!
There is also FreeNote in the market. But after initial enthusiasm I uninstalled it. But others may like it better that I did.
I found/tried Phatpad yesterday. It is great because you can freely place everything everywhere: Text, scribbled notes and graphics. You can edit everything if you reopen a document, which you cannot do with Skitch (which would be a great app otherwise). Phatpad allows to lasso-select and move parts of the document around. That's a rare find for android 2.3 apps.
All in all it's a well composed app.
But ... it's very buggy. And for the prize (which otherwise would be absolutely justified) it's too buggy IMO.
If you can wait for ICS there are a few free-note-taking apps for 3.0 and higher which look very promising.
I am getting a note to use in my college courses and I am going to load up ICS right away and use "antipaper HD" or something along those lines. I tried it out on my nexus and it looks very promising. You get to keep separate notebooks and everything.
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I used Mindjet just to create a brainstorm for my dissertation. I need to reinstall Evernote really as I find that handy. It may not be relevant for you, but Dropbox is handy for sharing files.
I wanted something that enabled drawing on GDocs stuff, just like you can draw on their website version. Now THAT would be something. I take notes for college too with the Note, but i keep whatever i have to draw separate from the main stuff in gdocs.
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Do you guys know of any notebook/note app that enables auto zoom? Lecturenotes and Antipaper requires you to manually advance to the next part when you zoom in so can anyone tell me if there's an app that moves automatically when you've reached end of paper? Thanks guys!!
I am itching to use my new Note for extensive note taking and writing, but I haven't come across any apps like penultimate on the iPad. I'm through and through an Android user but I have to admit the apps on iOs are much more polished. sNote is good but if anyone knows a really polished note taking app, please let me know.
I spent quite a bit of time yesterday looking for a diary app but almost all the apps are typing-based and the ones for inking seem not very mature. Can someone suggest a really good diary app with date, weather, etc. added to that day's entry, allows entry with the sPen and is visually appealing?
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Not sure about weather but have a look at FreeNote and Papyrus. if you search this thread few people have recommended it and provided some good comparison.
Try `jotter´ its not too mature but its worth a while.
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Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intulon.android.jotter
Not sure if there's a free version of it
Evernote is the best appp for you
Hi there,
I have the best answer for you-EverNOte- All know how to take notes and share across platforms
-To use it as a Diary
- Create a new note book -my diary
- you can add notes and sort by date of creation
- hanwriting can be added by skitch and if you dont want to type you have swype or touchpal key pads
- you can add location data as well
- modify the date of creation by using the evernote PC app, of you want to create diary for any other date
- add as many pictures and videos you want
- use evercalendar for a calendar view
- share your diary with your loved ones
- see it anywhere, anytime and across almost all platforms
- The update gives it a sleek appearance
- you can also sort by tags
rgds
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Hi there,
I have the best answer for you-EverNOte- All know how to take notes and share across platforms
-To use it as a Diary
- Create a new note book -my diary
- you can add notes and sort by date of creation
- hanwriting can be added by skitch and if you dont want to type you have swype or touchpal key pads
- you can add location data as well
- modify the date of creation by using the evernote PC app, of you want to create diary for any other date
- add as many pictures and videos you want
- use evercalendar for a calendar view
- share your diary with your loved ones
- see it anywhere, anytime and across almost all platforms
- The update gives it a sleek appearance
- you can also sort by tags
rgds
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the only thing stopping me from using evernote is the missing s pen functionality (pressure sensitive) , at least when i last used it a few months ago..
otherwise its a great app , best note taking...
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I am itching to use my new Note for extensive note taking and writing, but I haven't come across any apps like penultimate on the iPad. I'm through and through an Android user but I have to admit the apps on iOs are much more polished. sNote is good but if anyone knows a really polished note taking app, please let me know.
I spent quite a bit of time yesterday looking for a diary app but almost all the apps are typing-based and the ones for inking seem not very mature. Can someone suggest a really good diary app with date, weather, etc. added to that day's entry, allows entry with the sPen and is visually appealing?
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Notes mobile is the best app you will find imho
SKITCH
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the only thing stopping me from using evernote is the missing s pen functionality (pressure sensitive) , at least when i last used it a few months ago..
otherwise its a great app , best note taking...
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Hi
there is an evernote add on skitch that lets you take notes using S-pen
also the page of skitch is almost infinitely big,
you write in the entire page pinch shrink and whola you have a lot more space...
I think it depends on what your note taking process is (or what you want it to be).
I tried every note taking app I could find and decided Freenote+ was the best for me.
I made a demo video of it here which might help give you an idea of how I use it.
But that was when I was on GB. Now I'm on ICS, I need to find some time to check out some of the other apps that I couldn't use before...
For me, LectureNote is the best.
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Depends on what kind of note taking you are trying to do. LectureNote is a really good app for notetaking and seems like it would be perfect for a student.
You could also try Quill.
+1 for Lecture Notes on ICS. Has even succeeded with rendering my beloved fountain pen obsolete ;-)
I wanted to create a thread listing for applications which can make use of S-Pen. Please discuss/review the various apps which you have used and maybe other folks can benefit from this. This could assist people who are considering to get this Tablet.
There was a contest for S-Pen applications before Note10.1 was launched. That contest was meant for Note. But since both have same resolution, I think the apps should work normally also for Note10.1.
You can find all the applications developed during that contest here: http://galaxynotespenchallenge.com/submissions
I have heard good things about applications like Papyrus. Other guys may give us more details if they have used other applications.
Samsung have this new contest now with total prize money of $4 million. This sounds quite decent.
Details here: http://www.smartappchallenge.com/eng/main.do
Please share good apps that are dedicated for Note/S-Pen.
cheers!
EDIT: I am adding some of the recommended apps that you guys mentioned in the thread. Hopefully new adopters will find it useful to take full advantage of the S-Pen capabilities.
LectureNotes
Adobe Reader
Soonr Scribble
Autodesk SketchBook Pro
Autodesk SketchBook Mobile
ezPDF
Papyrus (Beta)
FreeNote or FreeNote+
Quill
LayerPaint
TVPaint (Beta)
RepliGo PDF Reader
Lecture notes... Lecture notes... Lecture notes.
The note 10.1 + lecture notes has replaced my paper notebook finally. I recommend exploring treats like custom pencils etc. It's an excellent app.
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I dón't know if it already exists but an application that I would find very interesting for the note family is an score writing one. I mean something like the windows program Sibelius that allows you to write a professional looking score and it has the possibility to export it as a midi file. I think that the S-pen would make the writing much more easy that it is in a PC. In fact the note could probably the most ideal way to actually write an score. And, you know, you could use the lemma "you need a note to properly write a note" .
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Lecture notes... Lecture notes... Lecture notes.
The note 10.1 + lecture notes has replaced my paper notebook finally. I recommend exploring treats like custom pencils etc. It's an excellent app.
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Wow no kidding. What a great app. Much better than s notes imho
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Any chance for S Pen apps for eBooks?
Do Google Books, Nook, etc. lock their books so that only the corresponding "official" app can open the eBook? I'm wondering if there's any prospect of a third-party developer creating an app that allows us to mark up an eBook with the S Pen, or if we're at the mercy of those official eBook providers.
In theory Google Books offers eBooks in PDF format, but that seems to be a rare option, at least for books published recently.
Regular old everyday Adobe Reader works very well for annotating PDF files with the s-pen.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble&hl=en
Soonr might be worth trying out. Probably test it out once my kids get done with my tablet. lol.
According to the description: " It works with any type of file, on any mobile device or computer, across teams, across networks, and across the globe in real-time. Whether you’re working on spreadsheets, presentations, proposals, expense reports or just taking notes, Soonr Scribble on the Samsung Galaxy Note is the annotation solution you’ve been searching for."
Great post man. I just got my Note and I am interested in other S Pen apps as well.
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Try the stock "S Suggest" app. I have found a lot of cool S-Pen friendly apps there. :cyclops:
Did somebody tried evernote
And Autodesk sketchbook ?
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Did somebody tried evernote
And Autodesk sketchbook ?
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Autodesk Sketchbook, on the "Phone" Galaxy Note, works great for sketching. I imagine it will be even better on a 10 inch screen. As for Evernote, works just the way it does on all other phones/tablets.
I'd recommend ezPDF for pdf annotation. I had previously been using qPDF but I decided to try ezPDF and its much better. The only thing its that qPDF, unlike ez, allows you to flatten the whole page rather than individual elements, if that's something that maters to you. I emailed the ez dev and he said it would be implemented soon, but until then I still use qPDF just to flatten the whole page.
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Regular old everyday Adobe Reader works very well for annotating PDF files with the s-pen.
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ezPDF works better.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwidWRrLmFuZHJvaWQucmVhZGVyIl0.
Tried them all, but this is my fav. :good:
Lecture Notes is imo the one with best development speed.
Did someone try Quill from Volker ?
It does Vektoring (different to Lecture Notes) and is very quick.
More S-pen apps http://www.sammobile.com/2012/08/23/galaxy-note-10-1-gets-more-s-pen-apps-from-samsung/
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only for UK owners? The Samsung apps I have dint show any of those at all or for free.
Just released, wait.
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http://youtu.be/U-c4DI2Tr5Y <- This is Lecture Notes on the Note 10.1. It has a ton of settings and is fully compatible with the S Pen (pressure sensitivity and all). Unfortunately the button on the S Pen isn't customizable (I Would have liked it to be a shortcut for the eraser). It only works as a shortcut (click + drag down) to open the options menu in the upper right corner.
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Lecture Notes is imo the one with best development speed.
Did someone try Quill from Volker ?
It does Vektoring (different to Lecture Notes) and is very quick.
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I had a Thinkpad Tablet for the past year, just switched to the amazing GNote.
Quill is a great app. It was literally developed by Volker by asking daily feedback on the Thinkpad Tablet forum, and releasing lots of updates. He did an absolutely amazing job with it.
But, my favorite inking app is Freenote. The down side is that it is not intuitive to figure out all the features. But, if you like Microsoft OneNote, I think Freenote is the closest thing to it on Android at the moment. Freenote lets you switch between ink/paint/text on the same note; lets you pinch zoom on an object (picture/text/ink) to make it larger, then ink it and pinch zoom back out, and the new ink is smaller relative to the object; powerful use of tags to make "to dos" or calendar entries or web bookmarks, etc., across all your notes, then to see all these scattered to dos/calendar entries/etc. in one view by clicking on that tag.
The thing I most love about Freenote though is that it lets you use a writing area at the bottom of the screen, similar to the Windows Tablet Input Panel that you can dock at the bottom. So, I can tap my cursor anywhere on the page where I want the ink to go, then just write the words very large in the writing area at bottom, and Freenote inserts them in a straight line at the cursor point at an ink height you can adjust in the settings. I love this feature because I have bad handwriting, but if I write ridiculously large in the writing area, it comes out legibly, quickly!
JCHP
Did you try 7notes with mazec? It does the same thing as free note, but it is a keyboard you can use like that on any note app. I even used it with Color Note. If an app uses a keyboard, I'm pretty sure you can use this app/keyboard to do HWR with it.
Guys as a medicine student and a newcomer to galaxy note Im lookin for an app that allows me to write with the S pen on a PDF files.
Take notes on the PDFs durig the lecture and so on.
Can u suggest some please?
EzPDF Pro.
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IAnnote PDF works quite well, and with direct (tho oddly) Box support. I've found using DropBox with it works better.
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IAnnote PDF works quite well, and with direct (tho oddly) Box support. I've found using DropBox with it works better.
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I thought iAnnotate wasn't supported on Android? Or at least not updated for like a year and missing a bunch of features?
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Lecture Notes is one of the best I've come across so far. I'm a business student and everything is done via pdf. l exclusively bought a note 10.1 for that purpose and lecture notes has been fantastic.
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Lecture Notes is one of the best I've come across so far. I'm a business student and everything is done via pdf. l exclusively bought a note 10.1 for that purpose and lecture notes has been fantastic.
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Yea me too as a student i will only use this tablet for learning purposes. I wonder if i should flash some custom rom so i can tweak it only for writing and reading.
I wanted to try the trial version of LectureNotes, but i dont know how to import my PDF files there and take notes on them.
I bought the Repligo thou but one thing that annoys me is that when i write it detects also my fingers and cant disable them..
@kris234: LectureNotes cannot directly handle PDF, it needs a free helper app PDFView (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acadoid.pdfview or http://www.amazon.com/Acadoid-Developer-PDFView/dp/B00CPR4L6K/) to convert the PDF file to its own format. Restart LectureNotes after installation, then there will be additional menu entries and the PDF import settings will be accessible.
I'm also a surgeon, and using EZPDF pro for more than a year. And it's more than perfect. You can easily write notes, add notes and photos. Underline and highlights. Can open Campbell Orthopedics in few swconds ( > 1GB, ~5000 pages )
Also you can save all your annotations and sync it with other devices.
Highly recommend this
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I thought iAnnotate wasn't supported on Android? Or at least not updated for like a year and missing a bunch of features?
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I'm not sure which features are explicitly missing for you. For my needs, however, it seems to be working just fine. The last update was November 5 of this year (2013)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.iannotate
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I'm not sure which features are explicitly missing for you. For my needs, however, it seems to be working just fine. The last update was November 5 of this year (2013)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.iannotate
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Be nice. Don't be rude, just move on to another post without leaving a comment. We are not 7 years old.
And PLEASE, do not ask for the "best" anything. We all have our preferences.
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Interesting. For so long it was December of 2012 as the latest update. I'll look at it again, thanks.
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FoxIt
I just noticed that a version of FoxIt is available.
I haven't had much chance to try it out though.
Lecture Notes and ezPDF are definetely the major apps for dealing with pdf.
Wenn I`m reading books or stuff like this where I just make some single notes on a page I use ezPDF. For a lot of lectures I need to write pages of notes in the pdf script, for this lecture notes is much more efficient.
Recently I tried PDFmax, which is rather new and buggy. Sometimes it crashes and thereby damages the file (ezPDF could still read it but PDFmax no more), but it is way much faster than ezPDF, on my device at least twice as fast!
IMHO Ezpdf is still the best. But it is slow as hell. I think even adobe reader has that facility. Am also a medicine postgraduate so it helps me a lot. For chm files though hyreader is the best till now.
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Well thanks guys, i have bought lecture notes , ezPDF, repli go, but all of them has their + and - ... For example Lecture notes takes time to Import a PDF file, and i cant see how can i highlight or how can i set up a highlighter.
On the other site ezPDF is good it loads faster, but the options there are reduced but i vote ezPDF
Thanks again!
@kris234: In LectureNotes, you can use one of the custom pencils as highlighter, choose your favorite color and line width and an intermediate opacity.
I would go further with LectureNotes and PDF editing/anotating. Once you import the PDF, you can set different layers to, for instance, highlight and anotate. They can be in separate layers. All what you want to do. Also, I like the ability of importing pictures, screenshots/screen areas from the brower or any other program into the PDF if necessary as a way to enrich the contents of the already imported pdf.
Needless to say, you can export the final product afterwards in PDF again.
Im in grad school too and use it for lots of stuff. EzPDF is nice as well, though I haven't tried adding content to the pdf. The highlight and anotation works flawlesly. On tip, dont forget to flatten all annotations before copying the PDF to the computer or send it to somebody else, the file will not be readable. Once all annotations/highlights are flattened then is ok.
Hope this helps
I've always had mixed results with pen input on anything other than s-note. Using repligo, I love the direct cloud storage support, but after a few lines of annotations, it starts to bog down a bit and pen input degrades. So I still use s-note, but importing and exporting and syncing to dropbox is a pita. I wish apps like lecture notes and ezpdf didn't make you get so many add on apps and just made one app. It gives me a cluttered and not fully developed feeling when I have to get extentions all the time.
Edit: my main use is also pdf annotating. Damn grad school.
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I also advise EzPDF Pro. It's the best one.
check out the new handwriting app, it is a lite version of notes plus from ios. I had used lecture notes, write and more apps, but with INKredible close up mode I experienced the most comfortable way to take notes. It has small list of features (for example you can't make folders), and some bugs (i cant export files), but it still in progress. It also looks great
what do you think about it?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viettran.INKredible
Does not touch Lecture Notes in anything other than the "ink." Inkcredible looks nice pen wise, but performance lacks throughout the application. What bothers me the most: palm/finger rejection is lacking. I also do not want to pay for each individual option. Charge me once and let us move on.
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yes , it's a very good app
but the lacking bathers me
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