Comments on: A New Year’s Resolution – Find My Ideal iPhone Note-taking Routine

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:09:11 +0000

In reply to Mike11. Interesting - I've heard good things about this app.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:08:30 +0000

In reply to Chris. Thanks for the info Chris. I may give it a go sometime, but my past experiences with handwriting on the iPhone have been so bad that it may not be real soon.

By: Mark Avey

Mark Avey — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:32:08 +0000

Anyone know why Dragon Dictation isn't available in the UK and if it's every likely to be? I'd love to give it a try.

By: Mike11

Mike11 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:38:31 +0000

I'm using Awesome Note (http://bridworks.com/) mainly because it can export/import (text+picture) notes to/from Evernote (since the new 2.5 I think). Transfer is VERY basic, but it works. But there's no option for automatic sync (or sync rules) and it can only export notes to your main notebook (but can import from all). For me, the second part is luckily no problem because I use my basic Evernote notebook for quick&dirty notes and have extra notebooks for long-time storage and specific topics. But I'm REALLY hoping Awesome Note adds more sync options in the future.

Here's how it works now:
Start Aweseome Note –> Transfer button –> Export button –> select note(s) in an abc sorted list of all you notes –> Start export button –> Done button

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:13:53 +0000

I've tried several apps and agree that those were always too hard or unwieldy to use effectively. Took too much effort to write small, etc. The guy that built this app is the same guy that invented spreadsheets (Visicalc). That gave the app enough street credibility with me for me to give it a try and spend the 10 minutes of orientation timing. It's not one of those you just get out of the box. Once you get it, though, and it's worth the 10 minutes, it has an interesting approach — you "write" in full size but the notes show up more reasonable sized under what you are fingering in — it's pretty compelling. My main gripes with it so far are:

1) It only lets you go so many lines down. It uses a 3×5 card metaphor. I can't help but wonder, what for? I was keeping a list of gifts for thank yous at Christmas and ran out of card space so had to start another. That bugged me, but just a little.

2) The Notes don't seem to be able to be organized. They sort in date order, that's it. I just email them to my gmail account and/or Evernote, but still. Why so dumb about this (or maybe I'm just naive about the apps features)

Anyway, very compelling to me to take notes with my finger. I had been using another app but can't recall the name. This one quickly replaced it and I use it daily. I'm a good typest but those little keyboards stink (whether iPhone virtual or Blackberry hardware).

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:24:53 +0000

In reply to Chris. Oh - surprising. I've tried 'handwriting' with both fingers and stylus in a couple of apps, and found it horrendous.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:24:03 +0000

In reply to Ben.

Yup, that's true – but as you've said, I'd prefere to see it a another direct option, rather than requiring an email.
Dragon functionality integrated = would be sweet 🙂

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:56:01 +0000

I use and like Evernote and the Dragon application. I expect both to stay around a while even though neither is perfect. I've recently begun to really like Dan Brickin's Note Taker. It allows you to take useful (and readable) notes by writing with your finger.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:56:12 +0000

Any app that can "send to email" can send to Evernote through your Evernote email address. It's more taps than a straight "send to Evernote" button, but it works.

FWIW, I'm mainly an Evernote user, but mightily impressed by Dragon Dictation. Evernote should just buy Dragon and integrate the functionality (just sayin')…

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