I'm in college now and I use one note, I think it's one of the overall better notebook/ note taking apps out there and it's free.
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Best Note Talking App for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil?
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I'm in college now and I use one note, I think it's one of the overall better notebook/ note taking apps out there and it's free.
For me, OneNote always slightly zooms or moves the page when my wrist hits the screen before the Pencil does. Kind of annoying. GoodNotes doesn't do that.
Doesn't do that for me at all. I've never had the page moved on me, maybe there was an update that fixed that or maybe you need to select your hand writing position in the stylus input menu. If only there was virtually no lag like the Apple notes app I'd give it 5 stars. Right now it's like a 4 and a half.
It is true that you cannot resize or move. But to be fair it's a digital notebook, it's not like in real paper you can resize or move text anyway. I'm sure these features will be added in a future update. However I think overall it's the best note taking app.
If you touch the screen, can you ink with your finger? If you turn off 'finger drawing mode' so you can't ink with your finger, it'll still ink (only) with the Pencil, which is nice, but a wrist touch occasionally gets mistaken for a page move or zoom. Guess I'll try to get used to 'finger drawing mode' being on so it doesn't move the page.
Yes if I touch the screen with my finger it does ink but the palm detection is really on point, once I rest my palm on the screen it doesn't move at all when I'm writing.
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I started with OneNote then tried Notability. Liked it but wanted to be able to search hand written notes so went to GoodNotes. Liked it, but could flick between odd fast enough - so I'm back on OneNote. I guess I only moved because it's MS and I wanted to support other developers, but fast changing between sections as the tabs are above and to the left all the time of wanted and searching of handwritten notes makes it my go to app.
Yes. - I miss the lasso and being able to move/rotate things. I had to pick a sacrifice to make unfortunately :/
Yes. - I miss the lasso and being able to move/rotate things. I had to pick a sacrifice to make unfortunately :/
OneNote on Windows is great but the iPad and Mac versions lack too much to make it functional.
I use Notes Plus extensively because you can convert ink to text.
I use Notes Plus extensively because you can convert ink to text.
Has Notes Plus been updated to support the iPad Pro screen resolution? Had it but deleted it.
It's very functional though it's lacking some things the windows counterpart has or other apps have. Keep in mind that this is hasn't been on iOS as long as other apps. This is only version 2 and it has not been updated to support the iPad pro and Apple pencil yet. When it does it will be even better with more features too.
OneNote has been on OSX for a while already and even that functionality is very poor. Even if you run the desktop model on windows, you still can't convert ink to text for anything created on the iPad although you can search the handwriting.
I'm referring to iOS that's only in version 2. It will get better with future updates.
For now the notes app is still my note taking app. I write for the week on one page and then share the images to one note to document them at them at the end of the day . As much as I want to use other apps, they don't have some of basic features as I really enjoy on the default note taking app and I really want apple to actually improve on it.
when having onenote opened up, it seems to shutter when double tap the homebutton and getting to multitasking screen. Even the scrolling shutters a bit.
Can you confirm that?
Furthermore I still got that weired line-correction feeling when handwriting in GoodNotes, that keeps me away from using it.
Can you confirm that?
Furthermore I still got that weired line-correction feeling when handwriting in GoodNotes, that keeps me away from using it.
If any app developers are reading this - I'd pay $20+ for a full-featured app that gives us the best of what GoodNotes, Noteshelf, Notes Plus and OneNote offer.
Pro-level apps (if truly pro-level) deserve a premium price and I'd gladly pay for a quality app.
Pro-level apps (if truly pro-level) deserve a premium price and I'd gladly pay for a quality app.
Not happening for at least another few years...these applications have been around for 5 years+ (in some cases) and they are still complete amateurs compared to desktop offerings (OneNote for windows for example)
I'm not so concerned with handwriting, as my penmanship is abominable. What I need is all my notes everywhere - I have thousands. So far, I haven't found anything better than Evernote. (I loved Yojimbo, but of that the less said, the better.)
Hear! Hear! I have not objection to paying for value. I'm an Apple Fanboi, after all...
I've tried everything so far and I keep coming back to Evernote each program has its pitfalls but to me Evernote is the better of them all. I wish it had features found in other apps as well. One note is nice but it has some quirks as well. If the native notes app had albums and the ability to choose paper types, lined or not, it would be awesome.
