Tag Archives: note taking

I’ve been re-evaluating the apps I use to write drafts and keep notes on iOS devices, and have decided to try a combination of iA Writer, Byword, and Evernote. My previous setup was highly dependent on Dropbox for storing all of my iSource drafts and day-to-day notes in separate sub-folders. …

  Appigo’s Notebook is one of the first purchases I made on my iPhone 2G in 2008, and so it comes as a pleasant surprise that Notebook 2.0 has been released as a free update. The two major features of this update are a switch to the plain text (.txt) …

Simplenote is back, and it’s better than ever. I was taking a little break from the app while I tried out the latest version of Awesome Note (great, but syncing is far too slow). Version 2.6 has a lot of under-the-hood changes (see the above screenshot), but the one I …

Last night I ended up picking up a copy of Taskpaper to compare notes with Patrick and accidentally stumbled upon a very cool, very free syncing service called Simpletext.ws, run by Hogbay Software. Simpletext.ws is a lot like Dropbox, but for small text files. This means that you can use …

[Note: I realize that Synotes is now version 1.1.1, but the last .1 is really just a bug fix - so I'm really talking about 1.1 here.] I reviewed Synotes 1.0 a little while ago and thought that it was a charming cloud-based notes app, but that it was also …

The JAiB Brain Trust met last Tuesday at the offices of Googlius Male to discuss the recent rise of note-taking applications on the iPhone platform. Unfortunately, no consensus was reached, as each team member insisted on naming a different note-taking application as their favourite. In an effort to appear as …

Notational Velocity, the popular open-source notepad for the Mac, has been updated to sync with Simplenote. This change addresses one of the major downsides to using the Simplenote iPhone app: the lack of a decent native Mac client to sync with. Instead of getting into a big old “wonder out …

There are more and more good-looking iPhone apps coming out, and that’s certainly not a complaint. I think it’s actually one of the major advantages of the platform (really sexy apps!), but as more and more of these gorgeous designs hit the App Store, it becomes even more important to …

Awesome Note lite version is limited to a maximum of seven notes and no syncing, but it’s a fair demo version that shows you most everything else that the full version has to offer. The app combines a gorgeous note-taking UI with some basic task management features, theoretically offering you …

Patrick’s new year’s resolution about note taking got me thinking about how I record info on my iPhone. I’m satisfied with the Notes app, but I started to wonder if there wasn’t something better out there. I’m hoping to get a review copy of Awesome Note, but in the meantime …

The greatest (okay, so it’s my favourite) note-taking app to ever have an elephant in its logo was updated to 3.1 last night. The major change this time around is another speed increase. If they keep up with these kinds of updates, they might have to change their logo to …