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Hello all!
I have been lurking around these forums for a while but finally decided to post. So, I just got my transformer yesterday, but now I need a good note taking app. I was wondering if any of you guys know of an app that allows you to take notes with a tree hierarchy like in MS OneNote? In addition, a note taking app that also has notebook support like in MS OneNote also? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Evernote
Evernote doesn't really have options to bold, italicize, or underline right? Or at least in the android app. It also doesn't have a tree hierarchy when taking notes also no option for bullet points. This is most important to me because I need to organize my notes that I take in class.
You could use the stock polaris office...
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Billus said:
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Evernote is NOT what he asked for. Thats a super simple note collection sort of app. Have you seen a proper ipad esque note taking app? Evernote is pre-school compared to the level of note taking apps they have on the ipad. Pre-school.
Everyone always replies with evernote. So frustrating.
i think you would be best going with a word processing app like Polaris, quick office or docs to go.
there the best for taking notes
Hmmmm, it seems like my options are limited for now. I suppose the notebook feature isnt too important. Is there any note taking apps that allow you to bold, add bullet points and have a tree hierarchy? Or is that asking too much?
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Evernote is NOT what he asked for. Thats a super simple note collection sort of app. Have you seen a proper ipad esque note taking app? Evernote is pre-school compared to the level of note taking apps they have on the ipad. Pre-school.
Everyone always replies with evernote. So frustrating.
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Well I guess we can use your option"criticism" where do we find that on the market.
I tried out MaplePaint last night and it seems to be okay. It saves files in SVG format so they can later be converted into png/jpeg/etc. I would assume that SVG is also easier to convert to plain text with an OCR than other formats since the lines are cleaner.
silenceforus said:
Evernote is NOT what he asked for. Thats a super simple note collection sort of app. Have you seen a proper ipad esque note taking app? Evernote is pre-school compared to the level of note taking apps they have on the ipad. Pre-school.
Everyone always replies with evernote. So frustrating.
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I'm curious now! As a LONG TIME evernote user (6000+ notes), I haven't seen anything that compares. My wife uses the ipad, but she would be interested in a good note taking app. What do you recommend?
As for taking notes in Android, I find Colornotes to be fast and efficient for things like jotting down the details of a phone call or for creating a "sticky note" on your home screen. I also like the fact that notes remain open when task switching, so you can easily copy and paste bits from other apps without having to constantly open and save a note.
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Why not Google Documents? They just recently put out a Docs app, and it appears to run fine in Gingerbread so far.
I like it because I can write notes on the PC which quickly sync to my phone and my tablet. It's easy to write a note and refer to it later. One example is shopping lists. I whip one out on the PC at home and whip out the DX in the store to check it.
Springpad?
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+1 for springpad
Use it for most things, shopping list, Todo list, managing small projects, diary, looking up near by restaurants and has a cool widget.
And it syncronises with your springpad account so I got access to stuff on the phone aswell
Also, re Springpad I think they have just announced a Honeycomb version.
Stupid phatware still hasn't come up with their phatpad. I've used it on the Windows Mobile platform and it is superb.
It can do free writing too as well as text and shapes.
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Evernote is NOT what he asked for. Thats a super simple note collection sort of app. Have you seen a proper ipad esque note taking app? Evernote is pre-school compared to the level of note taking apps they have on the ipad. Pre-school.
Everyone always replies with evernote. So frustrating.
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Android's note taking apps all are underwhelmingly basic compared to the Windows Mobile selection.
Android stinks on note taking. I used to use handnotes by choung . No app even comes close to that one. I would pay 100 if someone could make a note app like that. I realllllly like being able to write freehand notes
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Does anybody have any idea when/if the "iAnnotate PDF" App will be actually available in the "S Choice" on the "Galaxy Note"?
This is an iPad App and it's site says there is no Android version yet, but it's featured here:
samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note/applications.html
as a major app... However it is not pre-installed on my phone and is not available, as far as I can tell. Some other apps featured here are available, but this one is not. Not yet, anyway.
I've noticed that launching Samsung Apps requires the SIM in place. So is it possible that this App is available in Samsung Apps store if accessed from, say UK, but not when accessed from US?
Thanks.
P.S. I live in US, but my Galaxy Note came from Germany.
That site you linked clearly states that the apps mentioned as "Coming Soon".
This could be one good app for us
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that app does look very nice considering it might have weight effect on the pen. Unfortunately i have been using a pdf nnotator on the noe which didnt have a weight effect but i recently had to remove everything from sd card because i was getting too many adverts and it kept turning off randomly.
I want that old pdf annotator back now! i think i had one in word as well, it was very nice.
the reason i am here though is im interested in the best way to look at multiple pdfs and multitask! would it just be a case of using like four different viewers?? i think i am answering my own quesion really, unless there is a way two have an application open twice.
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That site you linked clearly states that the apps mentioned as "Coming Soon".
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That's funny...
The "(coming soon)" next to some Apps wasn't there earlier.
Now it's pretty clear that their release is simply delayed.
As a matter of fact, Goodreader for ipad is the best annotate pdf app out there.
it has a useful feature to extract all text highlited both with goodreader, with adobe acrobat, even with the galaxy note only worthy program for pdf editing: ezPDF.
even adobe acrobat can't extract highlighted text content (if it's not highlited in adobe).
basically, i am saying that iAnnotate functions are all there with ezPDF for android. i've tried also repligo reader but pen interaction is bad and everytime you lift the pen while ending the highlight, the text is deselected again.
what i am doing now is using dropbox to get the pdf, annotate and stickynote with ezPDF, then saving back to dropbox, edit them if necessary with adobe reader, then when all editing is done, i use GoodReader to extract just the annotation and sending them via eMail back to me.
got it?
PV.
nice work. will definitely look into this methodology at some point, presumably you have an ipad stuck on your desk then ?
i know what you are saying about adobe not even being able to highlight highlighted text aswell thats really annoying.
my first step is to re-install ezpdf because i accidently uni stalled it ..
although we're all screwed over with no pressure sewnsitivty in the note's ezpdf, iannotate will solve this though no-one likes writing then highlighting the whole thing to delete too!
I want this app as well... in the hope its a bit better than the .10c Ez PDF Reader Pro I bought...
"Lite" version of this App is finally available!
I think it's not compatible with our Note.
Edit: I finally downloaded app from Samsung App, looks promising but still too simple, I hope this app will be properly developed to reach the same quality as on iPad.
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I think it's not compatible with our Note.
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It works on mine, but it's pretty basic. They promise to keep adding features in the coming months...
yes it is, I have it installed, you need to get it from the Samsung market, not the Google/Android one.
Could someone generously provide the apk? Thanks in advance.
FYI, the "iAnnotate PDF" has been available from the Market for awhile now. It is more stable and has more options than the "iAnnotate Lite" version available from the "S Choice".
True, I didn't see it on the play store though, but I have seen it in the S-Choise.
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I tried iAnnotate and wasnt that impressed.
I've settled on QPDF Notes really good, allows me to annotate, drawing, scribble, highlight, you name it. :good:
When I was do a screen shot using the pen I get an option of scrap book apart from other options but I cannot find scrap book can anyone tell me where it is
Have you checked snotes?
That is where it is by the way
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When I was do a screen shot using the pen I get an option of scrap book apart from other options but I cannot find scrap book can anyone tell me where it is
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I have no scrapbook option when using the s pen to take a screen shot, which leads me to believe it is an app you installed, or is country specific, and would probably be found with the rest of your apps.
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I have no scrapbook option when using the s pen to take a screen shot, which leads me to believe it is an app you installed, or is country specific, and would probably be found with the rest of your apps.
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Are you not on jelly bean?
Scrapbook is a new feature with jellybean. It resides in S Note, but you will need to save something to it before it shows the folder for the first time. I don't have it on my note 10.1 yet but do have on my note 2 phone and really love this feature!
I love the Scrapbook as well for quickly collecting scraps.
Where I am stumped though is how to get data from the scrapbook anywhere else.
I would really want to be able to copypaste data from Scrapbook to another notebook in S Note, or even "save as" the Scrapbook so I can "upgrade" it to a real note.
I must be missing something, right? It cannot be that the scrapbook is a black hole from which data cannot escape except as a jpg or pdf via the export function?
Usually whatever I copy to the scrapbook is automatically put on the clipboard. From there I can use my "scraps".
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The clip key on keyboard
I'm on jelly bean stock samung keyboard on right lower side has a key to open the scrap book verry buttom right key icon pn key
While I concede that this method of accessing the clipboard does kind of work it is not practical at all.
I collect stuff in the scrapbook over weeks, adding handwritten notes and stuff to it. So all of this stuff is a) not in the clipboard, b) too complex to to copy&paste from a clipboard and recreate.
That's the whole point of the clipboard for me. It's just really really quick to get info into it. But unfortunately seemingly impossible to get it out.
I suppose I will have to do the slightly slower thing of actually directly importing my clippings into the relevant note from the beginning.
Which still is not ideal cause things change over time. You decide to split up the content of a single note into two or more, or something similar. I mean, that's the whole point of text editors isn't it? To be able to edit, transpose, cut, copy, paste as one requires....?
Guys,
I recently bought the note 8.0, while my goal was not to take my regular notebook (real one..you know..papers..) with me and use the note 8.0
as the only source for being use during my day. I still have my laptop, but I prefer to be able to take the note 8.0 with me while travelling and not my laptop.
I installed apps which I think it is necessary for business, and of course, I'm using the standard premium suite apps which pre-installed, but...
I would like to hear from you your top 5-10 apps you can leave with, and please...no game (this post will come later ), business app only.
I travelling a lot, and does not have connectivity always, so I need to have offline and online app as well.
Thanks in advanced,
Tomer
Google note and one Note. When I need to digital ink lecture notes
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teisner said:
but...I would like to hear from you your top 5-10 apps you can leave with, and please...
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For me:
TeamViewer Pro (yeah...I bought it because I use it all the time...but that's like a several hundred dollar app, but there's a free version)
Office Suite Pro 7
Dropbox and Box
Printer Share
GTasks
ES File Explorer
Those are my main ones.
This is such a great topic for discussion. I use my note 8.0 daily for business and general life stuff.
I stay organised around Evernote and GApps (Browser, Calendar, Drive, GMaiI, Google Docs, Tasks) following The Secret Weapon approach for organizing with Evernote. As for specific apps & Note-centric things....
Evernote with the widget on my home screen.
Note Buddy to launch Evernote when I pull the s-pen out and shutoff the display when I re-dock it.
Pure Calendar Agenda widget for a clean transparent calendar view on my home screen.
Skype
Everclip Pro
Pocket
Hello
gReaderPro
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It all depends on user specific needs,
for me the most useful combo is Dropbox + Folder sync + EzPdf - all important files I might need go to Dropbox folder on my PC, then after sync I never have to carry printouts with me, and ezpdf allows me to annotate the files if necessary
p107r0 said:
It all depends on user specific needs,
for me the most useful combo is Dropbox + Folder sync + EzPdf - all important files I might need go to Dropbox folder on my PC, then after sync I never have to carry printouts with me, and ezpdf allows me to annotate the files if necessary
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I have ezPDF and use it a lot. But I'm finding it's easier to import pdfs into LectureNotes for annotation. I hate not being able to erase my ink in exPDF.
teisner said:
Guys,
I recently bought the note 8.0, while my goal was not to take my regular notebook (real one..you know..papers..) with me and use the note 8.0
as the only source for being use during my day. I still have my laptop, but I prefer to be able to take the note 8.0 with me while travelling and not my laptop.
I installed apps which I think it is necessary for business, and of course, I'm using the standard premium suite apps which pre-installed, but...
I would like to hear from you your top 5-10 apps you can leave with, and please...no game (this post will come later ), business app only.
I travelling a lot, and does not have connectivity always, so I need to have offline and online app as well.
Thanks in advanced,
Tomer
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Great topic.
Just bought one myself and in same situation. Going to use it for work also. I have found that a combination of Polaris, ezPDF, Officesuite Pro w/font addon, cloud service, & Google Docs works for most things. Evernote w/Skitch is OK but last I knew you have to pay to sync with other accounts so it is limited. Not sure what you do for a living but there are also some cool space design/measuring/dimension calculating apps. I also have business and fraction calculators installed. Of course Lecture Notes.
Probably leaving some out but will post if I think of something.
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CCallahan said:
Great topic.
Just bought one myself and in same situation. Going to use it for work also. I have found that a combination of Polaris, ezPDF, Officesuite Pro w/font addon, cloud service, & Google Docs works for most things. Evernote w/Skitch is OK but last I knew you have to pay to sync with other accounts so it is limited. Not sure what you do for a living but there are also some cool space design/measuring/dimension calculating apps. I also have business and fraction calculators installed. Of course Lecture Notes.
Probably leaving some out but will post if I think of something.
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Yup, I pay for Evernote Premium. IMHO, It is totally worth it.
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Evernote for note taking, to-do, and reminders
Kindle Reader for all my professional books (and personal of course)
DigiCal calendar, better than S Cal in my opinion
Drive and DropBox
Polaris (included) and Kingsoft Office suites, like them both.
benattar said:
This is such a great topic for discussion. I use my note 8.0 daily for business and general life stuff.
I stay organised around Evernote and GApps (Browser, Calendar, Drive, GMaiI, Google Docs, Tasks) following The Secret Weapon approach for organizing with Evernote. As for specific apps & Note-centric things....
Evernote with the widget on my home screen.
Note Buddy to launch Evernote when I pull the s-pen out and shutoff the display when I re-dock it.
Pure Calendar Agenda widget for a clean transparent calendar view on my home screen.
Skype
Everclip Pro
Pocket
Hello
gReaderPro
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This is a great thread! I would add to it but basically all of the apps I frequent have already been identified. I would like to use Evernote more but it does not utilize the S Pen.
Can you tell me more about the secret weapon approach to Evernote?
I use Lecture Notes for work. Replaced the many project notebooks I used to have to juggle.
Genius Scan is useful when you need to scan something into your notebook.
Splashtop if you need remote connection to your laptop.
Cloud print to print.
Applock for time or location based locking of applications, so you can lock up the tablet at work, but not have to deal with the hassle of unlocking at home.
Droid48 for those of us who used to have an HP48 calculator.
ESFile explorer for easy access, copy and paste between files on tablet and on network, cloud based files, etc
Mobizen to mirror tablet to computer screen and use keyboard
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Take a look at Notes Mobile also. Unfortunately, if you use the developer setting to do all your 2d rendering on the GPU it has a display bug - no fix and they're aware of it, and the same company has a scientific notation app which works correctly.
The up side is it's the best handwriting recognition I've seen on this device. It does substantially better than the onboard stuff does.
Until they fix the bug, I'm sorry to have purchased it but they're getting dinged enough in the Play store for it that I'm optimistic they'll eventually address the issue.
Milhouse82 said:
This is a great thread! I would add to it but basically all of the apps I frequent have already been identified. I would like to use Evernote more but it does not utilize the S Pen.
Can you tell me more about the secret weapon approach to Evernote?
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Just Google it, there's an own website for it. Basically it gives you a structure of tags to organize all's your tasks, especially your emails, too, which are kind of a task. Imo it's only useful if you use outlook in Windows to export mails to evernote. If u use Gmail for example the complete structure can also be achieved using labels, which is just another word for tag..
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Just Google it, there's an own website for it. Basically it gives you a structure of tags to organize all's your tasks, especially your emails, too, which are kind of a task. Imo it's only useful if you use outlook in Windows to export mails to evernote. If u use Gmail for example the complete structure can also be achieved using labels, which is just another word for tag..
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I should have previously let you know that I have already been though all of the TSW videos and I'm setting up Evernote. I live and die by Outlook and I appreciate you pointing me in this direction.
Milhouse82 said:
This is a great thread! I would add to it but basically all of the apps I frequent have already been identified. I would like to use Evernote more but it does not utilize the S Pen.
Can you tell me more about the secret weapon approach to Evernote?
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http://www.thesecretweapon.org/
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sign-easy
pdf
dropbox
I have installed NCP VPN Client and Remote RDP. Using those apps i'm able to connect to my office computer and some others services of my network.
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http://androidfannetwork.com/2013/07/12/must-have-business-apps-for-android/
I took some of your recommendations from this thread and wrote an article on it. My business partner just bought a galaxy Note 10.1 and he wanted a list of apps for our restaurant that could help.
Thank you all for the recommendations, I got them from you. :beer:
We are recruiting writer for anyone interested. Pm me for details.
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I posted a new thread for this, but some great business apps are free on Amazon today...
Check out that other thread for more info, but an office suite, remote control software, wireless/Bluetooth/cloud printing app, wireless file access, and more.
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I use a combination of the follwing
Solid explorer where I keep all my pdfs and books in an external sd card
Kindle and mantano reader for all epubs, mobi and pdfs
Evernote for note taking
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Hi guys, I've bought a samsung galaxy tab a 10.1 2016 (the model without the s pen) and an Adonit ADJD2B Jot Dash 2 on amazon, I'm searching for app that allow me to take note easily and to edit and write on pdf files.
what do you suggest?
Also I know that this pen is not a bluetooth pen, do you know any bluetooth pen that works with my tablet which include palm rejection function?
thanks for your help
After that I've tried many apps, no one of these is satisfying. The one that I prefer is INKredible but I've many problems like so much lag on scrolling pdf pages and sometimes don't read correctly pdf file that other apps loads normally.
Please suggest me something, I am searching apps like notability on ipad
Editing on pdf? I guess thats a no no.
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