United States"Best App for Handwritten Notes" - O'Reilly Best iPhone Apps "Using Dan Bricklin’s Note Taker is a beautiful experience, as the app is a brilliant workaround to a formerly sticky situation. More important, it works like a charm." - John Fuller, Macworld.com (writing about version 1.0 . . . and version 2.0 is even better!) Dan Bricklin's® Note Taker makes it easy for you to quickly write down and organize names, phone numbers, addresses, shopping lists, notes, and more. You write directly on the screen with your finger. It's like having a stack of note cards and a pencil always with you. Pages are flexibly organized by date/time last modified, tags, favorites, and more, with thumbnail images of part of each page to help you find them later. You can write in large letters on the screen rather than trying to make tiny motions like a pencil. Note Taker automatically shrinks your writing so you can fit a lot of text on the screen. You just keep writing and Note Taker automatically adds new writing next to the old. To quickly correct mistakes, it has a multi-level undo button as well as an eraser -- just drag your finger over the page to erase the "ink" under it. The "paper" your writing ends up on is equivalent to about a 3"x5" card. You can write anywhere on it, so you can cross out shopping items as you buy them, go back and underline, draw diagrams, and more. You lay out the page the way you want. Use any markings: stars, underlines, and characters in any language. Create multiple pages. You can email your notes as JPEGs, or save them to a photo album. This Lite version has a limit of 15 pages at a time in the page list. Note Taker was designed and programmed by Dan Bricklin, the same person who 30 years ago came up with VisiCalc, the pioneering electronic spreadsheet that made working with numbers on a personal computer so easy. See the Note Taker YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/DBNoteTaker -- MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THE "How to write on the screen" video or follow the "Try It" tutorial in the app itself to learn the "trick" to writing.
When will you update so I can use for my current phone ?
Hi it no longer works with my current iphone 11, will you please maintain the app so I can use the purchase?
United StatesPlease update for 4 inch screen
Great app but it would be awesome if this could get updated for the iPhone 5
United StatesSImple, perfect
After the short tutorial, this was incredibly easy to use, and does exactly what I was looking for: simple, stupid sketches with some written notes. Easy as pie. The only thing I might ask for is the option to type text instead of hand-writing it over a sketch. I mostly use this for making a quick sketch with written dimensions that I later use as a reference for CAD drawings.
United StatesVery Well Done.
Easy to learn, great tutorial. Love this app for map drawing and such- will gladly get the full version now.
United StatesHandy app
Well, this app was just what I wanted. I plan to use it for all of my assignments in the fall. As a grad student I've found going digital is easier than ever now. The app is simple easy and fast. I love writing on my iPod touch because it is quick and easy. Also it's easier to remember things if I have to actually write the letters. The app is slightly pixilated and the amount of notes is limited. I will buy the full program if this can help me replace my planner.
United StatesNote Taker
Okay, I'm not a tech person so who can tell me WHAT HAPPENED TO MY NOTES after I updated Note Taker??!!! I guess maybe I shouldn't have updated?! Not too happy right now and surprised at what happened. I've updated all my apps in the past without any problems or major changes! Where did I mess up??
United StatesGreat simple app
This is a nice little simple app but there are few little quirks to learn. First, I thought you couldn't work in portrait mode but you have to enable it in the options. I think the reason may have been the help won't show up in portrait so maybe it was easier to disable by default? In any case, it works if you need it. The other confusing part for me was when in landscape, how to move the paper up and down. If you are in drawing mode, obviously using one finger will draw and not push the paper. So I tried two fingers. The page moves, but opposite what you would expect! After reading the help, I found what you need to think about is that you are moving the blue rectangle around. If you want to push the paper around, you actually use three fingers. For myself, this wasn't intuitive. I think a simple two finger to move the paper would have been fine. The blue rectangle could have be constrained to always be visible on the part of the page you were looking and then you could drag it around. In any case, now that I understand what was implemented, no big deal. Great app and if I find I need more than the 15 pages, I will go for the full version! A couple quick comments. You can email to your evernote address to get the jpg in evernote. This also makes your handwriting searchable! As for people that complain the full version should be free. You can't be serious. A well written app for a couple bucks is less than you spend on a bottle of water. Developers will keep writing good apps as long as they can make a living doing so. And the developer has even provided a free version! Thanks Dan!
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It adds thumbnails, tags, favorites, sorting, and more to the list of pages. Auto-advance now handles cursive handwriting better, especially when dotting an "i" or crossing a "t". The Lite version page limit has been raised to 15 pages. Writing is reportedly smoother on iPhone 3G and the older devices thanks to new code. See www.youtube.com/DBNoteTaker for more information.
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