Quick iPhone Tip: Using Awesome Note for journaling instead of Momento
While I was away, Awesome Note apparently added something awesome (surprise, surprise). They call it the Diary view, but I call it a great Momento App replacement.
Sure, Awesome Note won’t import your Facebook and Twitter updates and create a you-centric timeline of events like Momento does, but it does feature OTA backups and landscape editing — two things that Momento still sorely lacks. Awesome Note also features an equally gorgeous interface, that has finally matured to a stage where I can really enjoy using it.I don’t really keep many journal entries (I’ll start and stop), but I love the idea of having my thoughts archived and shown in a very relevant format. I simply keep individual notes as journal entries, and keep them in their very own folder. Diary view shows these notes organized by date (as shown above), which is why it reminds me so much of Momento.
I can also view entries in chronological order, organized by title, or look them up on the monthly calendar organized by creation date. It goes without saying that this all looks bloody awesome, but it’s the extra functionality that really gets me. Awesome Note’s menus are much easier to use now, and although the application is feature-packed, the features don’t feel packed in.
I had been on the fence about purchasing Awesome Note for quite a while, but it was the Diary view that tipped the scales. I now keep a special Evenote notebook for quick journal accounts of the day’s events (complete with pics), knowing full well that my thoughts are easily transferrable to other apps, should I one day want to switch things up.
The only downside here is the lack of geo-location (not a big deal for me, but perhaps for others) and the lack of a streamlined syncing service. Awesome Note does initiate full two-way syncing with Evernote, but you’ll need to start your notebook names with “[aNote]“, and the manual sync isn’t very fast (about five to eight seconds).
On the other hand, full two-way syncing was only added a couple of updates ago, and I’m hoping Awesome Note can streamline the process even more, and make it nearly as seamless as it is with Evernote’s native iPhone client. They haven’t promised anything of the sort, mind you, but I can hope 
Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea about the Diary View. Just applied it in Anote. Very nice.
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Am keen to know how to change the colour of the icon that appears for each event in their relevant day in the diary view. Anyone know?
Also, how can one event spread across multiple days in the diary view? Or does one have to make an event for every day?
And yes, I'm aware odds are no one will answer this. I've seen questions at the bottom of reviews on other sites, thought "what a plonker, anyone coming to this page is here because they have no idea about the app and want to know more". But here I am.
thanks for the post. installed awesomenote and synced with evernote seamlessly! i was able to import all my notes from evernote
I really just need to know how I can have A.note sync with my google calendar…please anyone?????
Sorry – A.Note only sync with G Docs and Evernote. Note apps don’t usually sync with Google Calendar.
Is there a way to sync ANote with outlook?
Sorry. ANote only does Evernote/Google Docs.
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Is there any possibility to transfer notes from Momento to Awesome note? i want to use awesome note now, but got 2 months worth of notes from Momento. Thanks~~~
I forget how Momento exports things, but if it does so in individual entries (one file per day, let’s say) then you could throw those notes into Google Docs or Evernote and sync them to Awesome Note. They wouldn’t have all the right creation dates, though, so a journal entry that you wrote on Jan 1, 2011 will look like it was created on the date you first imported it to Awesome Note.
Just so you all know you can setup an INBOX in your evernote account. Than you define that as your primary Evernote notebook. Than you can email ANYTHING to evernote email address (get it in your evernote account sattings) and it will go into that notebook.
So all you need to do is sort your intray from within awesome note.
BTW you can create new folders/notebooks directly inside evernote just make sure you name it {aNote] YOR FOLDER NAME HERE.
You can also email or write in evernote with tags that will give awesomenote info as to when you want alarm what note type is it etc.