Have you ever accidentally bought an application and then decided to
review it for JAiB? Yeah, happened to me, too! There are two Notebook apps:
one is the singular and the other is the plural of the word. Long
story short: I bought Appigo’s Notebook thinking it had removed the
"s" and updated its app logo (common occurrence) and was surprised to find a completely different program on my iPhone.
Oh well, review time!
Interface 
Notebook is ridiculously easy to use. You aren’t
overwhelmed by too many buttons, but it’s also easy to access the ridiculous number of features at your disposal. I like to think of it as the mobile equivalent of Wordpad on my PC, but it ‘s actually more capable than that.
To edit a note, you tap on an edit button and type away. This prevents accidental editing of notes when all you want to do was scroll around, but it can take some getting used to if you were a Notes user. If your note needs more formatting than plain text provides, the insert button on the top-left can add bullet points, bold/italics, and even configure the text alignment. Once you ‘re finished with a note you can password protect it, e-mail it, or even turn it into a task with Appigo ‘s ToDo or with the online service, Toodledo.
If your note contains any links or numbers, Notebook supports smart linking just like the new and improved 3.0 Notes app. I didn ‘t ever really use this feature, though, since I ‘ll end up bookmarking something or just adding the number to my contacts list.
The app uses a folder system to sort notes but also supports an ‘All ‘ folder to see everything in one gigantic list. One final feature I ‘d like to mention is landscape support with the ability to lock the orientation. I forgot to take a screenshot of it for this review, but believe me, it ‘s there. 🙂
Experience 
This is the best mistaken app purchase I’ve ever made. Granted, it’s
also my first, so let me put it this way: alongside Evernote, Notebook
is my favourite 3rd party note-taking application. I often write notes
up in Notebook and then send the notes to Evernote for storage.
Because of its speed it really can function almost like pen and paper
when I need to jot something down, and I’m excited to see how the app
will perform on my 3GS. The 3.0 firmware update made the default iPhone notes
app a lot better, but I’m definitely going to have to think about
whether I ‘ll use Notes or Notebook on a regular basis. It ‘s a tight race (winner gets nothing).
Conclusion
Notebook is fast, supports rich text editing, and has an interface that doesn’t get in the way. I really appreciate the clean look of the app, and it makes it a lot easier for me to concentrate on writing out information rather than fiddling with the cool buttons. For $5 it’s a great purchase, regardless of whether or not you mean to buy it 😛
Notebooks is $4.99 on the App Store; link here.
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