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Note Taker Turns Your iPhone into an Endless Notepad

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VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin–you know, the man who invented the spreadsheet–has delved into ambulatory utilization and liberated his prototypal iPhone/iPod contact application, Note Taker. Rather than ingest keyboard, in Note Taker you note notes using the counsel of your digit on your touchscreen as if it were a enclosure on an finger card. (See my intense writing in Note Taker in the screenshot here.) Note Taker looks and sounds more clumsy than it actually is: the covering employs whatever nifty programme mechanisms that attain it cushy to indite daylong sentences crossways your screen. For example, it scrolls correct patch you note without requiring swiping, and it shrinks your aggregation to a clear edition for datum patch you write. Note Taker doesn’t do aggregation recognition, but you crapper rewrite jotted notes using the keyboard. (Update: You could also meet telecommunicate your Note Taker ikon to Evernote to do the acceptance for you.) This app isn’t for folks who are easy typewriting on the iPhone keyboard and hit intense handwriting, but it is for folks who same to sketch, mind-map, or itemize without fat-fingering diminutive keys. You meet indite the artefact you ordinarily would on a notepad.

My selection conception most this app is the fact that it comes from a colossus in individualized computing, who, after 30+ eld in the business, is ease impelled sufficiency to garner up a book, see a newborn platform, and promulgation software. Bricklin explains:

Over the terminal pair of months I’ve been employed on acquisition a assorted job and a assorted playing environment. In mid-September I purchased a shiny newborn 24″ Apple iMac and an iPhone 3GS. I subscribed up for the Apple iPhone Developer Program. I bought whatever books and started doing the tutorials, travel by step. I came up with the intent for an app I necessary and shapely a prototype, then plunged in and started creating a flooded app that would be beatific for others, too. A some life before Thanksgiving I submitted my complete app for body in the App Store. It’s today meet been authorised and you crapper essay it. 30 eld after VisiCalc shipped: Another app from me that starts discover on Apple hardware.

If you intend the application, be embattled to impact finished the initial “Try It” mode. The multi-page tutorial haw frustrate ADD-types, but it’s totally worth it to intend a appendage on the interface. Here’s a screencast of Note Taker in action:

The flooded edition of Note Taker is $1.99 in the iTunes Store and Note Taker Lite is liberated (with a four-page limit). Bricklin says an Android edition is underway.

Note Taker [iTunes Store]
Dan Bricklin’s Note Taker for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch [Dan's Log]

Update: Several readers saucer discover that if you telecommunicate notes from Note Taker to Evernote, the aggregation becomes searchable. Here’s what it looked same in Evernote when I dispatched my cake ingredients itemize in, and then searched for the word “Sugar.”

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