As some of you know I’ve been beta-testing the NotesPlusApp V3+ (Viet Tran’s app).
If you have an iPad – NotesPlus is Amazing. Get it. Period. Why? Details below.
This app replaces pen/paper for me for everything I do.
Yes, it still has bugs, but they pale in comparison to everything this app does well:
- handwriting recognition, search on handwritten text
- drawing, shapes, automatic shape recognition
- takes images in from camera, from browser, or from photo roll
- image manipulation – rotate images, ‘send to back’ layering, scale, change aspect ratio
- recordings on note pages, also viewable in library
- PDF import and annotation – PDF export (to email, more)
- dual-panels – view PDF or browser on the left, edit notebook (or annotate the same PDF different page) on right
- collaboration using webarchive format – email your notebook to another NP3 user for updates.
- view webarchive (notebooks) in web browser
- insert shapes – rectangles, circles, hexagons, etc.
- copy/paste clipboard to paste any object between pages/books
- page naming so you can search pages like a table of contents
- page manipulation – renaming, moving, copying between notebooks, delete, insert…
- keyboard / typing friendly – I use my bluetooth keyboard for fast full-page typing
- close-up and auto-advance for handwriting precision
- palm protection
- *** left-hand writing support
- *** right-to-left writing support
- scribble out words to delete them
- circle items to select them
There is more. And the team is already in beta-testing v3.0.1 for quick release. Hugely responsive customer support website.
But that isn’t the big plus -
How many apps do you know that do PDF annotation AND recording AND image manipulation AND handwriting-recognition AND let you crop and copy bits of webpages to your document AND do document-sharing/collaboration with others?
At the very least, this app is 5 apps in one. Some flaws? Yes. Worth it? Holy Cow yes.
Yes I do think the dev team could use better organization, testing and roll-out practices.
But this app is quickly becoming my holy grail note-taking app anyway.
Looking forward to the v3.0.1 upgrades (and beyond).
M-g
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