Note-Taking
Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.
The app allows users to create a "note" which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note.
Notes can also have file attachments. Notebooks can be added to a stack while notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook.
Evernote Premium features:
Offline notes Your notes are available anywhere, anytime, even without an internet connection. Perfect for flights, international travel and working on the go.
Passcode lock Make sure only you can access your notes. Add a layer of security on mobile devices to protect your valuable information such as business plans, receipts, health information, and photographs.
Business card scanning Leave behind your stack of cards by scanning them using Evernote's camera. Capture and store all contact information, a photo of the card and choose to automatically pull additional profile details from LinkedIn.
Presentation mode Present directly from your notes in a full-screen layout for more collaborative, efficient meetings.
PDF annotation When a picture’s worth a thousand words, you can avoid lengthy email dialogue. There’s no quicker way to call attention to contract edits or design changes.
Context and Knowledge Discovery Context reveals notes with related content and documents, and Knowledge Discovery identifies co-workers who are experts on the topic or project you're working on.
Faster image recognition Find what you’re looking for, faster. We scan your images faster, so text within them is searchable sooner. Find text in handwritten notes, Post-it® Notes, whiteboard drawings and more.
Search in PDFs and Office docs Your files are easily searchable within Evernote. Quickly locate your Office and work documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs.
[ALPHA - UNDER DEVELOPMENT] OpenSource note-taking & archiving
Paperwork is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to services like Evernote , Microsoft OneNote or Google Keep .
NOTE In order to get Paperwork in its current state (under development) running, you have to have an understanding for how Docker and DNS works and know the basic concepts of HTTP proxying. Also, experience with Traefik and Minio might come in handy.
If you don’t have that, then the current state of Paperwork probably isn’t for you in first place. To make it clear: This software is not usable at this moment. It’s being worked on to be made usable in the near future. In its current state, Paperwork v2 is targeted to developers that would like to get their hands dirty and contribute to the project.
Noted is an audio recording and note-taking app for lectures, meetings, interviews, conferences and more, making it easy to record every moment with confidence.
With a rich text editor for formatting and 3D Touch for instant audio preview, it is the ultimate audio note-taking companion. Every word you type is instantly timestamped, so your notes synchronize effortlessly with your recording.
Record & Playback
- Seek to a key moment using #TimeTag, without scrubbing through the whole audio
- Adjustable playback speed (0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x etc)
- Noise reduction: remove unwanted background noise
- Preview your audio with 3D Touch
- Energy efficient background recording to preserve battery life
Note Taking
- Rich text editor: complete with formatting tools and options
- Capture or import images as references
- Make the most of your notes with the beautiful highlighter tool
- Drag text and images around the editor
- Support external keyboards
Organise
- Pin the most important notebooks to the top
- Categorise and easily search notebooks, notes and #TimeTag in one place
- Powerful full text search
- Secure & lock individual notes with a password or Touch ID/Face ID
Sync & Sharing
- Seamless and secure sync across multiple devices using iCloud
- Export text in .txt format, share as an attachment
- Export audio in .m4a format, share via AirDrop & more
- Share your note (complete with images, highlights and tags) with friends and colleagues
iPad features
- Drag and drop content from other apps & websites
- Supports Multi-tasking features
- Write, record or playback while using other apps in split view
Notebooks is the one and only notebook that you’ll ever need. It allows you to create as many virtual books as you need to write, store and structure your details of life, and so it can quickly become the one and only repository for all your journals, ideas, notes, drafts, diaries, projects, task lists and everything else you want to keep close at hand.
Notebooks stores and displays any type of document that you want to carry with you: PDF documents, web pages, MS Office or iWork documents, photos, videos, music and much more. Everything you would usually print out and file can now go directly into Notebooks.
You can even keep your task lists in Notebooks and tick off your to-dos as you complete them. Divide complex projects into nested sub projects, and cross-reference from a tasks’ description to your reference library (which is in Notebooks also). When a task reaches its due date, Notebooks’ badge on the home screen reminds you of pending business, and an optional acoustic alert draws your attention.
With its unique combination, Notebooks can replace several dedicated apps:
Note Taker Text Processor (don’t compare it to Word or Pages, please!) Markdown Composer Task Manager File Storage Clipboard Manager PDF Converter
Microsoft OneNote, part of the Microsoft 365 (Office), is a digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. It also offers shared notebooks, syncing between multiple computers and devices via Windows Live online storage, and optical character recognition (OCR) for getting a text from pictures, business cards, etc.
An online version, OneNote Online, is also available as part of Office Online. Only the online version is free.
Note-ify it's an elegant, simple and easy-to-use application made in minimalistic design developed for the iPhone and iPad. It will help you quickly and easily save your thoughts, ideas and all necessary information in the form of text notes.
Colorful and customizable interface
- Color notes
- Lined paper
- More than 50 themes
- A variety of fonts, colors and font sizes
Easy management notes
- GTD methodology
- Incoming
- Reminders
- Favorite notes
- Color selection
- 3 options of sorting the list of notes
- Folders to organize your notes
Security and Timing
- Protect notes with password
- Automatic backup
- Synchronization of your devices via Dropbox
And more;-)
- Universal app: Pay once - use everywhere
- Fast sending to the selected email
- Share your notes via AirDrop, SMS
- Publish your notes to Facebook, Twitter
- Quick typing using TextExpander
- Nice and easy interface
- Support: you will never be left with your problem
Google Keep is a service provided by Google which integrates note-taking and web surfing.
Quickly capture what’s on your mind and recall it easily wherever you are. Create a checklist, enter a voice note or take a photo and annotate it. Everything you add is available instantly on all your devices – desktop and mobile.
With Google Keep, you can: • Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos • Have voice notes transcribed automatically • Colour-code your notes to help find them later • Swipe to archive things you no longer need • Turn a note into a checklist by adding checkboxes • Use your notes from anywhere - they are safely stored in the cloud and available on the web at http://drive.google.com/keep
Online Notebook application: Zoho Notebook lets you combine text, images, audio, video, RSS feeds, documents and much more. Online Collaboration: You can share a single image or selection of text from a page rather than the whole document, giving the author absolute control over what information is shared with others. Notebook also provides real-time collaborative editing. Firefox plug-ins for instant web clipping; Skype integration for instant chat and IP telephony.
Bear is a beautiful and flexible writing app for note-taking and prose, both on the go for iOS devices and for the Mac OS desktop.
KEY FEATURES
- Stay organized by linking notes to each other.
- Use hashtags to organize and add context to notes.
- Notes are stored in plain text, easily portable.
- Focus mode to keep you on track.
- Advanced markdown with full in-line image support
- Powerful search to easily find notes with Search Triggers.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• Rich previews while writing so you see prose, not code • Advanced Markup Editor that supports and highlights over 20 programming languages • Use Cross-Note Links to build a body of work, quickly reference other notes, and more • Quickly add todos to individual notes to keep yourself on task • Multiple export options including HTML, PDF, DOCX, MD, JPG, and more • Smart Data Recognition of elements like links, emails, addresses, colors, and more to come • One-tap formatting on iPhone and iPad with a custom shortcut bar • Focus Mode hides notes and other options when it matters • All your notes are stored in plain text for the ultimate in portability • Effortless, secure, and private multi-device sync via iCloud • Regular updates to keep you and your writing current
Made by the company behind WordPress, Simplenote enables users to take notes, lists, and ideas. These notes are stored on the cloud and are accessible across multiple devices.
Simplenote's both client and server components are free and open-source. However, the service component of Simplenote requires free registration and accepting the terms of service.
Cool Note Apps I Rock
GNotes is an Android notepad/notebook that can synchronize with Google GMail.
GNotes is a notepad design in mind for easy note-taking. What it do is to help you taking notes easily on mobile phone and sync all of your notes with GMail. You can easy access your notes online, and you'll never loss it! To sync with your GMail, please check the FAQ.
Features:
- synchronize notes with your GMail
- widget support
- take simple text notes
- take check-list notes
- take photo notes
- take record voice and audio notes
- take handwriting notes
- take other kind of file type notes
- search all notes contents
- share with other apps on your phone
