Make The Minutes Work: How To Take Effective Notes During A Meeting
It’s a skill which few people have perfected; the perfect meeting minutes. The record of events saves you headaches further down the line. Here's how you take effective minutes in a meeting.
WriteRoom for iOS: A Minimal, Productive Text Editor for iPhone & iPad
There are those who say you can't get any real work done on an iPad, but I'm not so sure. For me, WriteRoom provides the perfect environment to write wherever I am.
3 More Unique Diary & Journal Apps for Your iPad and iPhone
If you're looking to start keeping a diary or journal on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, your biggest challenge will be choosing the right app. Here are three more.
5 Ways To Use Microsoft OneNote On Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone users don't need Evernote; they have OneNote! It can handle images, voice notes, transcribe audio to text, sync to your desktop, and others can add to your notes. Care to learn more?
Capture Your Quick Notes, Ideas, and Photos With Snipe for iOS & OS X
Shortly after I started using Snipe, it got moved to my iPhone and iPad home pages, and to the dock on both of my Macs. Let me show you why.
Simple Notes On The Go: Google Keep For Android Reviewed
There are some amazing note-taking apps out there, but here's one that merits a closer look: Google Keep, a note-keeper which has both a great-looking Android app and a slick webapp.
MagicalPad HD: A Notebook For iPad Power Users
MagicalPad isn't just another notebook app, but a highly useful app for creating outlines, notes, mind maps, drawings and more as you would on sheets of printed paper.
Simplenote for Android is a Free, Fast and Fantastic Notepad
Good apps like to show off their many features. Great apps get out of the way and let you do what you came to do.
Evernote's New Web Clipper Is The Ultimate Content Saving Tool
Evernote's Web Clipper isn't new. But if you haven't heard, or perhaps didn't like the Evernote clipper in the past, this is the right time to look into it again.
CherryTree: A Wiki-Style Notebook That’s Polished and Functional
Do you need help keeping your notes and thoughts organized? There is more to note taking than Evernote! Less conventional alternatives outside the mainstream include personal wiki-style notebook apps like CherryTree.
Box Introduces Notes For Real-Time Collaborative Documents
Cloud storage service Box has stepped into the online collaborative note-taking game with the launch of Box Notes, a new free service that lets you create documents and collaborate on them in real time.
Simplenote Launches Official Android App For Easy Note-Taking
Finally, the long wait is over! Simplenote has released an official note-taking app for Android, which is similar to the one that has been on the iOS App Store for a while now.
Back to School? How to Organize Your Classroom Work With Evernote
School time can become stressful for both students and teachers, especially in high school and later in college. Therefore, it's absolutely crucial that you stay as organized as possible so that you know where to find the information you need and make things as easy as possible for yourself. Evernote is a fantastic tool to take care of all of this.
Go Back to School Paperless With Notability for iPad & iPhone
With mobile apps like Notability, it's a lot easier to go paperless when it comes to recording lectures and taking notes, annotating documents and keeping your digital files organized. I've reviewed several writing apps in the past and notebooks for the iPad, but newer apps like the best selling, stylishly designed Notability (currently $2.99) seem especially geared to students. The app allows users to mix handwriting with typed text, highlight and annotate scanned or imported documents, complete worksheets, add images, and record lectures.
Collaborate And Edit Meeting Notes In Realtime Using Sync.in
Whenever you need to work with a team online, or even if you just have to collaborate with other colleagues that may work at other remote locations, the ability to have something visual to look at and work on collectively is invaluable. Sync.in is true realtime document conferencing. It is an online collaborative notepad tool that I believe stands out above the rest.
MinuteTaker and Meetings Help You Produce Professional iPad Minute Reports
In my free online MakeUseOf Online Meeting Guide where I provided some tips for planning and holding meetings over the Web, I referenced a few minute taking apps as well. While very few of us enjoy taking and producing minutes, Meetings ($3.99) and MinuteTaker ($7.99) not only make it easier to take minutes, but the reports you share will actually encourage meeting participants to read the minute reports. If you use your iPad as a laptop and you have the laborious job of taking minutes at meetings, I couldn't make better app recommendations for the job.
Read, Study & Highlight With Diigo and eHighlighter
The best way to study and review text is to highlight and annotate what you read, and two of the most useful tools for doing this are the online and iPad app, Diigo, and the recently updated eHighlighter. I won't pretend that making annotations with a traditional yellow highlighter and sticky notes is sometimes faster and better for study purposes, but digital annotations offer so much more when it comes to reviewing, sharing, and even archiving annotations.
8 Evernote Upgrades You Should Know About
It seems like every other month, Evernote gets additional upgrades. A few are quietly released, while others are highly anticipated by heavy Evernote users. Since I wrote my last article about Evernote's new design and file storage upgrades, the popular notebook has gotten important new features, including Reminders, a highlighter and tighter security for subscribers, among others, and today I'm taking a look at what's made it into the latest versions for Mac OS X and iOS.
NoteSuite: A Combined Notebook & To-Do Manager For Mac & iPad
From Evernote and Springpad to Google Keep, and the never ending list of iOS note apps, don't feel too embarrassed if you use more than one program for keeping track of notes, thoughts and to-do lists. You certainly need to do your homework when it comes to selecting a notebook app that is right for you. One of the newest kids on the writer's block is Theory.io's NoteSuite for Mac and iPad,
Draft: A High-Quality, No-Nonsense Way To Keep Notes On Android, With Full Dropbox Sync
I consider myself a discerning note-taker. If a note-taking application isn't just so, it can drive me crazy. This is where I'm supposed to tell you I'm on a never-ending quest to find a great note-taking app. But really, I'm not: for months now, I've had a duo of note-taking apps on my homescreen. One of these is the wonderful Draft, which is worth every cent of the $2.57 it costs. If you're looking for a great way to write on your phone, read on.