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Note taking apps for PC/mobile: Evernote, OneNote etc etc

Well there's digital paper, which is basically special paper you write on then upload via the stylus, so you still write on paper, but can also save the stuf digitally. I'd sugggest looking at companies like Anoto or Magicomm...
 
I've seen a demo of this technology, it's pretty good. You can even get ones that record audio at the same time, so you can take notes and record the meeting at the same time. Later, if your note seems incomprehensible, you can click it and playback the audio around the time you wrote the note. Very clever.
 
There's various 'digital pens' available that log what you write and then transfer it to your PC although I'm not really impressed with them. Saying that, we saw a really clever HP product in the States that let you write on paper normally and add audio notes etc and then transfer the lot to a smartypants app that converted it into onscreen text, linking the audio files to the notes.

It even recognised the page of the book you opened and displayed it onscreen. Very clever.

I use my Palm phone and various note taking apps, although you could take along a wee notebook and make notes there.

Another option might be to get a tablet notebook and use Microsoft One Note: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/onenote/default.aspx
 
Evernote has a handwriting recognition system, so you can - theoretically - write in a notebook then scan or just photograph the pages and it will record them.

http://evernote.com/

However, I've never found it all that good, perhaps it's my handwriting. I use a notebook all the time and I've found that the only way to make sure that you store everything you need to is to be disciplined in terms of typing it up. (Either that or rely only on the notebook.) You have to make sure it's a routine and do it regularly, just like checking your email.

I put a little yellow post-it on the last page in my notebook that I typed up, and then when I have a bit of spare time, go through all the pages typing up anything that's at all useful or relevant, adding to-dos, that sort of thing - then move the post-it to the end when I'm done. I also only ever keep one notebook at a time now, and put everything into it, which makes it less likely that you'll lose it because you're just concentrating on _that_ rather than picking up a new one every time.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
Evernote has a handwriting recognition system, so you can - theoretically - write in a notebook then scan or just photograph the pages and it will record them.
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From my admittedly short experience with that program, it's quite buggy. I think photographing or scanning pages is something of a major faff though!
 
marty21 said:
google documents?
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Dunno! Will have a look

zenie said:
you can get pdas with handwriting recognition, or the nokia 5800 ;)
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Yeah - I have had these before and I just can't get on with writing on a PDA screen with a stylus unfortunately!

Crispy/Ed/Kyser

I just had a look at some of these - the Pulse stuff from LiveScribe looks really good...just a shame you have to use special paper, though it seems you can print out sheets of it with a decent printer now and the notebooks are quite nice!

I might see if there is anywhere round here that I can give it a try as it is a bit expensive for a speculative purchase!


I guess the biggest problem for me is that I would probably end up losing the pen somewhere...

:rolleyes:
 
I've gone through a ton of note taking programs and have finally come closest to what I want with Natara Bonsai.
 
I've just merged these threads together as I'm once again looking for something to act as a digital note-taker for more general stuff (like clipping webpages for offline reading and being able to categorise and sort them into folders).

Bonsai is still doing a great job as a general to-do for my everyday work (it's a brilliant program), but I've just tried out the latest version of EverNote and have to day I find the interface of the desktop client an absolute monster. It's really clumsy and unintuitive (yes, I've been shouting at it!).

I keep hearing good things about Microsoft's OneNote but the price tag is way too big. Maybe Lifehacker were right when they made pen and paper the best note taking tools of the lot. http://lifehacker.com/399556/five-best-note+taking-tools
 
It sounds like you want an "everything bucket". There was a fairly small blogflap about them a couple of months ago, starting with that linked post by a bloke from Twitter, then with various other pieces defending everything buckets. Unfortunately while there are lots of programs mentioned in the various posts, you'll have to look quite hard to find any on Windows; they're all for the Mac.

If I were on Windows I'd probably be saving things as plain or rich text, or taking screenshots, and keeping them in normal folders, to be honest.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
Evernote is getting increasingly popular - it's recently gone all web-synced and cross-platform and looks absolutely nothing like it did a couple of years ago. A lot of people are raving about it, I've seen several move across from Yojimbo, and the free version offers quite a lot (the premium is about extra web features it seems). I've not done much more than try it myself, but it seems to be pretty specialised as a junk drawer, with things like automatic text recognition, mobile upload from phones etc - all about capturing and filing information.
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Just starting using it again a while after dumping it. Have a new project coming up that will make use of it very well, like the way it integrates with your browser for quick clippings...:cool:
 
Sorry to revive an old thread.

The boy, housemate and I are subscribed to Evernote.
Can we make our accounts talk to each other?
We basically want to share shopping lists and the like.
If Evernote cannot do this, what can?
 
I still haven't got a good combination going.

I use dropbox all the time for saving and sharing files mostly, and for syncing between various devices as a secondary use. But for note-taking and resource collecting? Nope. I just can't seem to settle on anything.

The problem is, I still take a massive amount of notes by hand (and I'm rubbish at filing them as well :o ), so when I do try to gather resources and make notes digitally, I never do it enough to get into a useful routine.

I tried using DevonThink for a while (http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/), but I can't sync it with a windows machine. Ideally I want something I can install on as many machines as I want, cross-platform, and have all my resources and notes wherever I want them, whenever I want them, but in a more organised and complete way than something that is simply file sharing like dropbox. I'm not sure such a beast exists though.

Problem is, I start using a new thingymajig, do some work using it, then decide I don't like it and either forget about what I've got stored there, or can't be bothered to import everything to the next thingymajig I try.

This digital lark is sometimes more faff than it's worth.
 
This seems to be the only 'palm-compatible' system I've ever managed to get to grips with....

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So far as the information age goes I just email shit back and forth to my gmail account to stash it - it it's part of the same train of thought it gets either the same label or sent as a reply to myself....still only at 4% capacity and it's available on anything I care to sign in from.
 
Ok.
Please excuse my annoying lack of tech knowledge :o

I have made a new google doc (using the google app on iPhone) but cannot see a function to share or add with other people...?
I can only really do this via the iPhone coz I have limited/no bet access at work.

Any ideas?
 
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