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Daily iPad app: OneNote for the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 26th, 2011)

After years of developing mobile tools for its own platform, Microsoft has finally released a series of apps for the iPad including Lync, OneNote and Kinectimals. Hands down, the most anticipated of the bunch is OneNote, Microsoft's popular desktop app for taking and organizing notes. It's the ...

Daily Mac App: Memo

by Samuel Gibbs (Nov 30th, 2011)

I've written about quite a few note-taking apps in my pursuit of the best one. Most shy away from the Post-It note paradigm because OS X comes with Stickies, a pretty decent representation of the repositionable note, but Memo takes it head-on. Memo is basically Stickies with iCloud and ...

Phone Arts shows off original works created only with iOS

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2011)

This is one of the more interesting art projects revolving around Apple's touch devices -- Phone Arts is a series of works that highlights pieces made specifically with the iPhone or the iPod touch. We've seen art made with iOS apps and devices before, but this is a little different. Rather ...

Daily Mac App: Quick Note

by Samuel Gibbs (Nov 18th, 2011)

Lots of people still use notepads to jot down quick reminders, even when they're in front of their Macs. Quick Note is a note taking utility that gives you the simple, quick writing experience of a pad of paper on your desk, but on your Mac. Simplicity and speed are key in this kind of app ...

Put a whiteboard on your laptop with DrawTop

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2011)

I love this idea. The DrawTop is a sticker that goes on top of your laptop and basically turns it into a whiteboard surface. The one, ahem, drawback that I can see is you might pretty easily wipe off any designs you happen to have on it just by sliding your laptop into the usual protective case ...

Daily iPad App: Ghostwriter Notes

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 20th, 2011)

Ghostwriter Notes for the iPad is a note-taking solution that'll let you scribble your thoughts or jot down the highlights of a lecture on your tablet device. The app uses the idea of a virtual notebook to store your writings and lets you create an unlimited number of these notebooks. You ...

Evernote offering developer competition, conference

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2011)

Evernote has announced two big events for its developer community coming up later this year. First, the company is holding a competition with over $100,000 in prizes available to win. To enter, all developers need to do is build an app, service, or device that works with the Evernote system by ...

Dr. Drang's excellent comparison of iPhone notes apps

by Chris Ward (Feb 22nd, 2011)

If you're looking for a good note-taking app for your iPhone (especially if you're fed up with the built-in app's syncing non-functionality), check out this comparison of four of them from Dr. Drang. Simplenote, Elements, PlainText and Nebulous Notes are all compared for cost, syncing, TextExpander ...

VoodooPad now available for your iPhone and iPad

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 13th, 2010)

VoodooPad gets its share of TUAW screen space, and it's one of the few apps that's always open on my desktop. As one of the original "personal" wikis, VoodooPad has a simple aesthetic and a great feature set for organizing and linking your important information, notes and everything from bookmarks ...

Notational Velocity ALT adds Markdown support and widescreen view

by Richard Gaywood (Dec 12th, 2010)

The runaway success of the iPad has provoked significant demand amongst people who want to seamlessly edit cloud-synced files across their iOS devices and their computers. We've seen a lot of apps vying to be the iOS part of that solution (such as SimpleNote, Elements, WriteRoom, Edito and a whole ...

TUAW's Daily App: inClass

by Mike Schramm (Dec 10th, 2010)

With all of the great games that have come out this week, you probably have enough to play already, so let's spotlight an app that can actually help you get some work done. inClass is just such an app. Now's probably not the best time to talk about it, as we spin down towards finals and holiday ...

Note & Share for iOS: Markdown, Dropbox, Evernote, and more

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 18th, 2010)

With the tide of plain text editors showing up in the app store, I'm getting a little soggy, and I know you might be, too. However, I have another one for your consideration: Note & Share (for both iPhone and iPad) adds some unique features to the standard mix, primarily from the "Share" half of ...

Captio: The simple app that just might change your life

by Josh Helfferich (Sep 30th, 2010)

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I have the worst memory. I also have a bad short-term memory. This makes it tough to remember the things that pop into my head throughout the day, and it makes it especially hard to keep track of tasks and other actions that I must take. I've wanted to use ...

What's new (and gorgeous) in iOS 4.2 beta

by Josh Helfferich (Sep 17th, 2010)

If you're as excited as I am about the iOS 4.2 beta being released, you probably spent the majority of Wednesday paging through all of the tech blogs and/or neglecting your responsibilities as an adult. For those of you who aren't able to experience Apple's latest firmware until November, I've ...

Over-the-air notes syncing option disappears from iPhone 3G in iOS 4.1

by Chris Rawson (Sep 10th, 2010)

For the iPhone 3G, the biggest new feature for many users under iOS 4.1 is the phone now actually works. Making the iPhone 3G usable under iOS 4 came with some trade-offs before the new OS was even released -- app multitasking and wallpapers didn't make the cut on the older iPhone -- but it looks ...