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 I decided to give Notebooks by Alfons Schmid another try. I had actually bought this app months ago and can’t remember being all that impressed. Boy, what a difference a few months can make.
I’m not sure if it’s the speed of the 3GS or a particularly good set of updates in months past, but everything that felt ho-hum about Notebooks is now charming and intriguing. It’s an app that makes me want to write, and it feels more like WriteRoom (fullscreen Mac OS software just for writing) than even the official WriteRoom application on the iPhone. It doesn’t feature all of the fancy themes of Awesome Note, but Notebooks has a charm all its own. My sister would destroy me for saying this, but i’m likening my Notebooks experience to what people seem to love so much about owning a Moleskine. I know there no leather, and I know the UI is just being drawn on a glass screen, but dammit, this app really feels like a cozy notebook.
Furthermore, it’s a cozy notebook that won’t run out of pages (though it will run out of battery), and it’s infinitely divisible into other sections (“notebooks”) of my choosing. It’s also more flexible than I’d initially anticipated. The app can no longer handle rich text, but it can still view a number of different file types (.doc, .pdf, .jpg, and more). I’m planning on taking a more detailed look at the app soon, but for now I’m quite happy just typing drafts out in full-screen mode, copying all the text, and sending it to my Writeroom on my Mac via Pastebot.
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