While neither Google Docs nor Evernote are a full-featured outlining applications, it is possible to create outlines with them. However, outlines are better handled in specialised outliners. Recently David Winer, with Kyle Shank, formed LLC in Delaware and released their first product - web based outliner LittleOutliner (made with HTML5 technology). Although it's not bad, (has text formatting, no need to log-in), it is just a first effort (no sync between computers, saving just locally, no support for mobile devices). While I was looking at comments about this new hobby of David Winer, I noticed...


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I love using my iPad for taking notes. I started with Penultimate. It was..ok. It's obvious to me that the people who believe that Penultimate is anything other than penultimate, have never tried any other note taking apps. I quickly left Penultimate when I discovered Notability and CaptureNotes 2. I've gone back and forth between those two for the last year - they each have completely different strengths, so it's been a tough call. Now I've met ZoomNotes, and it was love at first sight. This app is a beast! If you can think of a feature you would want in a notes app, (like the commercial says),...


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Like many people today, I live by my calendar. Being the OCD Control Freak that I am, I sometimes wake in the middle of the night, worried that I forgot to do something, call someone, go somewhere. If you know the feeling, read on. After a recent comment on an old blog post about a notes app, I started looking at Beesy, which is primarily a project management app. (I would not use it just for notes.) It seemed really full featured, and I wondered if I could use it as my calendar. Before I go any farther, I will say that as it stands now, Beesy cannot replace my calendar. The primary reason...


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Pen computing is not dead, it was just in hibernation because Steve Jobs hated styluses (styli?) and promoted multi-touch screens without support for digitizer pen. But watch out, boys and girls! In the near future (last quarter of 2012) several Windows 8 powered touch tablet are coming and they will be both affordable (because powered by ARM processors so much cheaper than Tablet PC of old times) and supporting both multi-touch and (high precision) digitiser pen. In the meantime, to get a feel what to expect from Windows 8 touch tablets, we can take a look at Windows Phone 7.5 apps! Here...


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Convertcast Episode 96 November 22, 2011   Scott Bryan capturenotes.com, CaptureNotes on Twitter,  support@capturenotes.com CaptureNotes 2 note taking application Locating information in your notes Written, typed, audio, add in pdf Flags Get App Savvy iPad in education App store prices Wrist rest "Paragraph" mode Archiving and iCloud Notebook sharing Tying it all together in a total suite of tools   Follow Jerry on Twitter Follow Alli on Twitter Call the Just Another Geek Site Google Voice number, and leave us a message! (304) 884-JAGS...


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abcNotes is another app in a large collection of similar iPhone/iPad apps. With a universal binary, you can use abcNotes on both your iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad. Beautifully designed, I have no doubt that this app looks great on the large screen of the iPad. It is, however, a bit cramped on the smaller iPhone screen. abcNotes' hook is that it offers you multiple "desktops" on which to place your sticky notes. The desktops are customizable. You can use a variety of preset backgrounds, or import your own photos. Each note can be a different colour, and you can set the font and size. The notes...


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I thought Awesome Notes was, well, awesome. Then I heard about NoteMaster. It looked like it might be similar to Awesome Notes, so I emailed the nice people at Kabuki vision and requested a promo code. They were kind enough to supply one, so I'm passing on my findings. The very first thing I discovered was that NoteMaster syncs with Google Docs, whereas Awesome Notes backs up there. Syncing is far preferable. I open up NoteMaster, hit the familiar sync icon, and any changes I made to my documents in NoteMaster are instantly applied to the document on Google, and any changes I (or someone with...


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I bought another iPhone app last night. It appears that I am now playing a speculation game, because like I did with Agendus, I bought it more for what it will be able to do, than what it does now. Allow me to explain. Awesome Notes, at $3.99 from the iTunes store, is definitely not cheap by iPhone app standards. It's a beautiful little notes/memos replacement, though, and reminds me a lot of Treo Memo (Palm os) from Gx5. Awesome Notes provides a variety of backgrounds for your notes, as well as a number of fonts/sizes.   As you can see, you can choose backgrounds that go with the note....


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