NoteBook

NoteBook is the best app for taking notes on iPad. Unlike other iPad apps, with NoteBook you can take notes using multiple fonts, styles, and colors. Text styling is important because it’s part of how we retain and recall information. On paper you might write something in large letters or different color ink to make it stand out. For notes on your iPad, you don’t want to lose this flexibility of writing on paper.

Also unlike other iPad apps, with NoteBook you can add attachments to your notes. So if your notes refer to a spreadsheet of calculations or a schematic in a PDF, you can attach the documents right to those notes. Other apps force you to store them separately, which completely separates the documents from their context.

Double-tap to add a quick text note, or use NoteBook’s full-featured outliner for power note-taking. An outline is perfect for creating a list. It’s especially good for managing a hierarchical list (a list with subitems), making it easy to organize any amount of detail and then to instantly hide it all with a tap.

In addition to NoteBook’s power outlining, its voice annotation feature guarantees you’ll never miss a detail of a meeting or lecture. Turn on voice annotation and NoteBook records the person speaking while you take your notes. When you review your notes, tapping a speaker icon starts playback from the point in the recording you began taking a particular note.

Words aren’t always enough to capture an idea, so with NoteBook you can add diagrams, flow charts and sketches to any page. Build your diagrams using NoteBook’s pre-built collection of shapes and line styles, or use your finger to sketch.

Take notes right on top of PDF class notes or lecture slides. Choose the “annotation” option when adding a PDF, and NoteBook adds its pages directly to the Notebook. Leaf through the pages, add text notes, create diagrams, circle and highlight important points. Trade binders filled with reams of notes for your iPad and Circus Ponies NoteBook.

With NoteBook being such a great note-taking tool, you can probably imagine taking lots and lots of notes. How do you keep them all organized? Read more….