Pad & Quill is a new note taking app for the iPad and iOS. Here’s its intro in the App Store:
Pad & Quill organises your notes in classic notebooks kept on a wooden shelf. It’s intuitive, simple and beautiful. Inspired by the Italian bonded leather cases made by Pad & Quill, the app turns your device into books you will truly love.
And some of its key features:
- organise notes into different books
- sync notes on all your iDevices
- realistic page turn effects
- universal app
- beautifully designed
This is an appealing idea for an iPad notes app, so I installed the app very soon after it was released in the App Store and have got to know it quite well. My reactions to the app are mixed. There are some very nice things about it, and some decidedly not nice things as well. Hit the break for details on highlights and lowlights of Pad & Quill …
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Microsoft OneNote for iPad hit the iPad App Store yesterday. There’s been an iPhone version of the popular OneNote note taking app for some time now, and now it’s got a big brother on the iPad.
Here’s a little about what OneNote for iPad can do:
Create searchable notes with text, pictures and bullets. Make and manage to-do lists with checkboxes. Then keep your notes in sync using free Microsoft SkyDrive® online storage to access, edit and manage them from virtually anywhere, from your PC or almost any web browser. Access your notes online at http://skydrive.com.
The app requires a (free) Windows Live ID to sign in with. You can use an existing one or setup a new one from within the app. It also requires iOS 4.3 or higher. It opens notebooks created in OneNote 2010 or the OneNote web app.
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Evernote, the powerful and feature-rich note taking app for iPad and iOS, has been updated again this week, to Version 4.1.6.
The big new addition for iPad users is a new rich text editor for iPad running iOS 5. This has always been Evernote’s Achilles heel. It syncs beautifully and automatically between iOS devices and desktop, it’s available everywhere, it’s got powerful OCR capabilities, and increasing number of links to other iOS apps, and plenty of other strong features – but editing notes in the app has always seemed crappy.
I take tons of notes on my iPad 2, and the apps I use most often for this are the ones where the UI for editing and writing is much nicer than Evernote’s – Plain Text, iA Writer and Elements have been my favorites for a while.
I’ve been playing with the new rich text editor for Evernote a little bit and so far I quite like it. It’s still nowhere near as clean as the apps mentioned above, but it has got some very slick formatting features now. For starters, you can now edit any note on the iPad – no more need to append and lose formatting or any of that nonsense.
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Evernote – one of the best and most feature-rich note-taking apps for iPad and iOS – has had a huge, major update this week, to Version 4.1.0.
The single biggest new headline feature is rich text support. You can now use formatting options like styles, bold and italic, underline and strikethrough, bulleted and numbered lists, blockquotes, and even add links to text. It’s excellent to see this added to Evernote.
There are lots more big new features though – as the Evernote blog indicates when talking about the update:
There are updates and then there are UPDATES. Our users are not shy about letting us know what they want, so we get incredibly excited to release an update that we know will make a lot of people very happy. I have four words: iOS rich text support. I have two more words: shared notebooks. But that’s not all. We’ve also added passcode lock, a redesigned new note screen, a completely new iPad interface, and much more.
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PhatPad – the versatile note-taking app for the iPad – has been updated this week, to Version 1.3. Three big new features in this update are:
- A clipart library with over 1,200 images in 27 categories, that can be inserted into PhatPad notes
- Support for the iPad 2 camera (not sure which one)
- The ability to send PhatPad notes to Google Docs as PDFs
PhatPad was already quite a feature-rich notes app. This update makes it even more capable and the Google Docs support is an especially useful feature.
Here’s an App Store link for PhatPad; it’s priced at $7.99.
