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I'm looking into getting the ASUS transformer (cause it looks awesome, and probably does what I want), but I need to know if there are any handwriting note-taking apps.
While this question might be best posted towards a Transformer forum, any application would do, and if it works on the Incredible, why won't it work on the other?
Does anyone know of any awesome handwriting note taking applications? I'm taking a lot of engineering/math classes in September, and I'd like to be able to write my notes (which will be a lot of math, where keyboards fail in note taking) using a stylus, and hopefully be able to save them in either google docs, or evernote (or any cloud based application that can interface with a computer).
I've been checking out Note Everything, and it seems pretty awesome, except that I can't export their "paint notes" to gdocs, only their text notes.
thanks for your help!
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I've been checking out Note Everything, and it seems pretty awesome, except that I can't export their "paint notes" to gdocs, only their text notes.
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Yes It's a really good application.
But for their "paint note" the export to GDocs is not supported.
Don't hesitate to write to their support ( Unfortunately I'm not allowed to write the link to the website, but you can easily find it ), they are very responsive, even the Sunday and the Monday at 11.00 pm
Google is probably holding back with Google Now, not wanting to scare people away by releasing too many features too soon that show just how much it knows about us. Here are my ideas:
1. Send to Now – As you browse the web or read a book, you could highlight words or people’s names to Google Now so it loads up information about them for you to read through later.
2. Photos – when you take a photo of a landmark, Google Now could load a card with information about the landmark. I think Google Goggles already does this but now would be a better platform.
3. People – when you take or scan a photo of a person or their business card, Google Now could load up a card in the background with their LinkedIn or G+ profile.
4. Things – scan a barcode or object and Now loads up information (price, retailers etc) about it. Again, just like Goggles but better.
5. Rules – Google could let us write rules to trigger cards. For example, I could ask Now to pop up a card reminding me to take my groceries from the fridge in my office when I start my car (connect to my car’s Bluetooth) at work on a Friday evening. I already kind of do this with an app called Automate It by the way – it’s similar to Tasker.
6. Networking – Google Now could load profile cards of people nearby who have opted in to the networking feature.
7. Second Screen – Google Now when prompted could listen to what’s playing on your TV and offer more information about the programme. It could even offer links to purchase products advertised on TV or radio.
8. Related Articles – As you browse the web, Google Now could build up a list in the background of other articles related to those you have read and you could later review the list at your leisure - rating, reading and/or discarding the suggestions as you see fit.
9. Conversations - This one is a little scarier than the others and I’m not sure I would opt in to it myself, but Google Now could listen in on your phone and email conversations and provide related information – links to products you discussed or articles about concepts or news mentioned. As I say, I think I’d pass on this one.
10. Custom Cards – Google could let retailers or even websites build custom cards that are loaded when you check-in to their stores or visit their websites. These cards could include special offers and promotions, best-selling items etc. I imagine Google could even charge businesses for such a service if it were so inclined.
In all of this it would be important that they are opt in only – opt out wouldn’t be good enough. Also, Google Now should always remain non-intrusive but perhaps one should be allowed to set which cards should pop up as notifications, cause the phone to vibrate or simply load in the background. I might want a reminder to trigger a notification by the way but for others I may be happy to ignore or review at my convenience. By the way, I haven’t seen or used Google Now yet so if I’ve completely misunderstood how it works or could work, this is my excuse.
Oh and I apologise in advance if this is not the right forum – I couldn’t immediately find a better one and I see others have posted about Google Now here too, I guess since the G Nex is one of only two devices with it on at the moment.
What are your ideas for Google Now?
How about more integration with GAPPS? (I'm looking at you Calendar!)
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How about more integration with GAPPS? (I'm looking at you Calendar!)
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Isn't Calendar already integrated? I see reminders for my calendar entries in Now. Don't know about setting events via Now though, since it isn't completely functional in German / other languages than US english.
On topic, OP has some great ideas! Hope to see some of the less scary integrated
Really? I thought reminders were only within the alarm app... I will have to double check...
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Really? I thought reminders were only within the alarm app... I will have to double check...
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I see a reminder for this evening right now, it's definitely integrated
there was a interview with matias, and he confirmed that there is calendar feature, only reading from it.
there isn't any feature to create a calendar entry from NOW. but he emphasise that the API exist and all down to developers.
maybe hinting that its possible for 3rd party developer to write some custom card that can be installed?
I would love to be able to teach Google Now how to pronounce my name, placenames in my area etc. so that dictation works better.
Having said that, I find the accuracy of the dictation to be outstanding for most other things. I love GN!
There are so many possiblilities to this feature. I can't wait to see how it evolves over time. I actually use it quite a bit more than I thought I would. It makes a simple task so much easier, such as setting an alarm! Being able to set calendar appointments would be amazing though!
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I see a reminder for this evening right now, it's definitely integrated
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I think they're referring to that you can't use now to create a calendar event. If you want it to remind you of something, it can only set an alarm for you.
Music, it should tell you when an artist you like has a new single or album coming out, and if they are going to be playing a show withing X miles of your location. Or have just announced a tour etc.
Media, it should tell you when a new movie or video game is being released and give ratings for it and such.
I like idea number one, maybe adding in a dictionary for certain words, although that may be part of what your talking about.
That's one of the nice things I like about reading books on my Ipad. You can highlight a word in a book you're reading and, it will define the word.
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Music, it should tell you when an artist you like has a new single or album coming out, and if they are going to be playing a show withing X miles of your location. Or have just announced a tour etc.
Media, it should tell you when a new movie or video game is being released and give ratings for it and such.
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Well for the concert notification, I stumbled upon an app called song kick. Which will scrap your Google music and pandora ( maybe something else too) and email you when an artist you liked or own content from is touring near you.
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It should show a card every monday, wednesday, friday morning when I first unlock my device with the day's XKCD comic and the mousover text.
Keeping tabs on movie releasedates would be nice too. Google "The dark knight rises" and on the release day it shows up on a card with the theatre times for your cities movie theatres.
Connect with (Google) TV to give you a tvguide card when your watching tv.
Shows a card with directions to the nearest florists on your anniversary
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Well for the concert notification, I stumbled upon an app called song kick. Which will scrap your Google music and pandora ( maybe something else too) and email you when an artist you liked or own content from is touring near you.
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I will check it out, thanks!
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Keeping tabs on movie releasedates would be nice too. Google "The dark knight rises" and on the release day it shows up on a card with the theatre times for your cities movie theatres.
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Excellent idea. The more media related info the better imo.
One more feature I'd like to see is the ability to send a time or location based reminder to someone else. The person can then choose to accept the reminder or not. I suspect Apple will do this soon if they haven't already. The reminder could then appear in Google Now along with any notes the sender included.
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Integration with Tripit.
Integrate with Tripit directly to send reminders of all the little tripit events you have, check-in, check-out, flights, etc.
I want there to be an actual notes app for which Google Now can create a note and save it.
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A card to nearby news!
Hi Folks,
One of my primary reasons for buying the Note2 (arrived yesterday, so not had much time to experiment) was the Stylus^D^D^D^D^D^D S-Pen. I'm hoping that the phone can replace my Moleskine notebook, in which I make short notes, jot down my action items, etc in meetings where I'm not chair / taking full minutes (for those, I expect I'll need to stick to an A4 pad).
Given what the device is, and who the contributors here are, I thought I'd post, to see if anyone else had the same requirements, and come up with a good working solution? If not, I'll post updates as I go along, and whether or not I find a solution which works well for me.
Ideally, then, my workflow would look something like:
Attend a meeting
Write relevant notes on the Note2 using the S-Pen
Have those notes sync <somewhere> (ideally automatically, but I can live with pressing a button or two)
Have my notes subsequently available on a desktop computer (Windows PC in the office, Mac when working from home)
Ideally have the notes auto-handwriting-recognised at a reasonable level of quality into machine manipulatable text
Other initial thoughts/comments:
I'm happy to use S-Note for this if it works well, but just as happy to use a 3rd party app, and to pay for said app if the value proposition is there.
I've had an evernote account for years, always though the concept was great, but never really made use of it. This will probably be my first port-of-call.
I'm a heavy Dropbox user, so Dropbox integration would work for me (especially since gaining the additional 48gig through purchase of the Note2!).
It would be great if the single app divided out action items and notes "auto-magically" somehow, and populated a cloud-syncing task management tool with the action items. But on this assumption this is asking too much, I think I'd be adverse to switching between two tools, one for notes, one for actions (though perhaps Multi-View would be an interesting solution here?).
Cheers!
Gav.
I'm very interested to see what your thoughts are after using it a while. I'm an engineering student, and was looking to buy a Note2 and take advantage of the SPen functionality. I like the idea of 'Formula Match' although I haven't experimented with it since I don't know anyone with a Note/2/10.1 etc.
I had the Note, and just got the Note 2 last weekend. The problem with S Note is that it only seems to sync to the PC as an image. So, you can't edit them on the PC.
The best solution I've found is using OneNote on the phone and PC. And, syncing them via skydrive.
Evernote seems pretty good, but I figured since I already had OneNote installed on the pc I'd try and make that work first, and never got around to Evrenote. It's a bit clunky though. I use the MS app most of the time, bit it doesnt do everything, so I bought MobileNoterSE and that does some things the MS apps doesn't. But neither is a complete solution.
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Best options will be to use something like Google Drive, to use google docs support, or Polaris Office (free with this phone) or QuickOffice to create word documents and sync with somewhere like Dropbox.
This way you will have easily editable files, you lose the ability to do things like the formula thing and easily insert images etc, but it works perfectly for handwriting.
Experience thus far
So, my story thus far.
Firstly, I had a play using S-Note and Evernote together:
To get your handwritten notes into evernote, you export via JPEG to Evernote (note, not a problem in the short term, but I've found the Note2 keeps a copy of the exported docs on the internal storage, so if you use it a lot, it could conceivably munch a lot of your space).
Evernote doesn't (so far as I can find) do OCR on the text to make it machine readable, but it does do an amazing job at OCRing for the purpose of making your handwritten notes searchable. Because it can be a little more "relaxed" in doing this (i.e. if it's not sure if you've written "pound" or "sound", it'll index the word as both for searching purposes) it does a truly wonderful job. It almost makes me wish I'd bought a page-whiz type scanner and fired in my hand written notes over the past few years.
My initial perception of the possible value of this search facility might be enough to make me forego the machine manipulatable part of my requirement.
However...
The handwriting recognition option, replacing the keyboard, built into the phone is very good. It does, I would guesstimate, about an 80% accurate job in recognising my (awful) handwriting in tests yesterday/today (how it fares when used "in anger" vs at my desk tests, I've yet to determine). The advantage here, ofcourse, is that it can deliver machine manipulatable text directly into Evernote, or any other tool you so wish (e.g. Polaris Office as mentioned above).
And, of-course, machine manipulatable text is searchable via any one of a hundred methods or varying complexity and sophistication, as suits your needs.
Ideally...
Of-course, ideally, both would be great. Being able to write, without worrying whether or not the machine "gets it right" is a godsend. I (most of the time) can recognise my handwriting, so if offered both, I could correct where necessary.
My experiments continue!
I'm a teacher and have used the Note II for a couple of weeks. Here are my thoughts:
-I previously used a 7" tablet, a swype-style keyboard and Evernote for making notes
-I bought the Note II after playing with it in the phone shop and seeing how accurate the handwriting recognition was. I have used a Palm PDA in the past and the Samsung system is lightyears ahead of the gesture-style recognition of the Palm.
-I input text now either using handwriting recognition and the S-Pen or voice recognition (when I'm at home and on my own!). It's very possible that using the swype-style keyboard is quicker, but I find in terms of vision, seeing my own handwritten, rather large words on the screen easier to see than the smaller keys of the keyboard, so it works out quicker and is more restful for me.
-I use Evernote for all of my notes. It's amazing. An example is of me helping another teacher assess some speaking and listening tasks in the classroom - I made my comments on my Note & Evernote, then emailed them to her. I now have a copy on Evernote for future reference. I travelled on the train over the weekend and planned all of my lessons on the Note. I'll be able to share these with support assistants easily, can access them from the desktops at school, and they are all automatically tagged with the date.
-I use several Evernote widgets. I use tags and notebooks to keep all the quick-reference notes a touch away, like this week's lesson plans and my timetable. I can find other notes very quickly using the search option.
-I've toyed with writing notes in cursive using the stylus - but in the end think - why would I want to do that, since the handwriting recognition is so good on the Note and I can then edit the text later very easily? My handwriting is not THAT beautiful! If you were really attached to cursive handwriting, S-Note can save notes with both drawing on and written text, although this would be converted to an image file were it then uploaded to Evernote.
-When I have time and energy, I mean to look into Tasker to make note-making more automated, for example opening a new note when I draw out the S-Pen. I'm sure Tasker can save and open notes according to location or calender appointments (you mentioned meetings)
My only wish was that attachments like spreadsheets could be edited and saved while still being attached to the Evernote note. Instead, I used Dropbox for files such as PPT and spreadsheets.
Hope this helps!
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-When I have time and energy, I mean to look into Tasker to make note-making more automated, for example opening a new note when I draw out the S-Pen. I'm sure Tasker can save and open notes according to location or calender appointments (you mentioned meetings)
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Ooh, now, here's something I've not yet considered. If my notes could be auto-labelled based on the meeting I'm (supposed to be) in. That would be interesting.
Evernote can actually do this already. There is a setting which labels the title of your note with the current appointment from your calendar.
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I have started using Papyrus...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...m5vdmF0aW9uLmFuZHJvaWQucHJvamVjdHBhcHlydXMiXQ..
And Dropbox on my Note 2.
Handwrite notes whilst out at meetings, conferences, etc. Then share to Dropbox in pdf format and thus available on my Desktop when I get back to the office.
Papyrus is still under develeopment and doesn't do OCR afaik. I use my notes for my own recollection, so no need to produce keyboard text or send to colleagues.
Quite simple, but works for me.
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Best options will be to use something like Google Drive, to use google docs support, or Polaris Office (free with this phone) or QuickOffice to create word documents and sync with somewhere like Dropbox.
This way you will have easily editable files, you lose the ability to do things like the formula thing and easily insert images etc, but it works perfectly for handwriting.
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Must admit, this is the way I am leaning at present. The coolness of Evernotes indexed handwriting though continues to appeal
Google's note application, Google Keep, is on play store !
Quickly capture what’s on your mind and recall it easily wherever you are. Create a checklist, enter a voice note or snap a photo and annotate it. Everything you add is instantly available on all your devices – desktop and mobile.
With Google Keep you can:
• Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos
• Have voice notes transcribed automatically
• Use homescreen widgets to capture thoughts quickly
• Color-code your notes to help find them later
• Swipe to archive things you no longer need
• Turn a note into a checklist by adding checkboxes
• Use your notes from anywhere - they are safely stored in the cloud and available on the web at http://drive.google.com/keep
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DOWNLOAD:
Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep
Mirror:
1.0.77: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Led1An5K9-T2toa1Y3SmtYdkE/edit
ermagherd!
is it any better than evernote?
I saw this on Google+. Interestingly, I could not find it in the play store on my phone. I had to go to the store on my computer browser and choose to download it to my phone from there.
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ermagherd!
is it any better than evernote?
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I never tried evernote, but Google Keep have the essentials note app feature with a very nice UI
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Paddington said:
I saw this on Google+. Interestingly, I could not find it in the play store on my phone. I had to go to the store on my computer browser and choose to download it to my phone from there.
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I have added a link for the apk if someone else need it
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Vissionary said:
ermagherd!
is it any better than evernote?
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Not better .. Keep is more Basic .. Evernote is a more mature app with Advanced features.
Keep has a prettier UI. Does the simpler jobs easily.
Also its integrated with Google Now .. or Google Voice commands. You can say "Note" or "Make a note" , "Note to self" and Google with take voice input and create a note for it.
sweet, thanks... i've been trying to follow this, but the drama behind it going from "coming soon" to "canceled" back to "coming soon" to, now released was getting annoying.
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Can't find it in the play store, but the direct link works.
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dexterboygenius said:
Not better .. Keep is more Basic .. Evernote is a more mature app with Advanced features.
Keep has a prettier UI. Does the simpler jobs easily.
Also its integrated with Google Now .. or Google Voice commands. You can say "Note" or "Make a note" , "Note to self" and Google with take voice input and create a note for it.
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Hmmm I like what I'm reading. I may have to give keep a shot.
Awesome!! Thanks
I'm enjoying it so far haha, now I have no need for any 3rd party task managers!
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autosave?
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Thanks for the mirror, for an obscure reason i cant download it from the playstor on my SGS2
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Thanks for the mirror, for an obscure reason i cant download it from the playstor on my SGS2
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Are u on gingerbread if so it's apparently incompatible
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autosave?
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Note are automaticly saved in cloud on your Drive account at https://drive.google.com/keep/
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Nice and simple app. but missing an option to encrypt notes.
When I use google now voice option to "make a note" or "note", i am unable to pull them up in google keep app. Where does it save those notes?
FAQ on the speech-api in 'keep'... if you tap the mic icon and speak, it does realtime speech-to-text AND has a filesink for the Audio track. At the end of your session with speaking to the mike, there are 2 outputs ( mp3 file with the widget for playback/audio, the TextView w/ the text converted during your speech )...
that is a nice trick. Will that be in an intent or in the api? IMO the buffer that's filled by the mic is used to both send the FLAC stream to speech-recognizer-api and the buffer is encoded or saved for audio track that can be playback by the player widget.
Here is log on the event 'tap the mic icon to make new keep-note' ...
I/ActivityManager( 389): Displayed com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/com.google.android.voicesearch.intentapi.IntentApiActivity: +807ms
They should just make a Holo themed Apple Notes, stick it in AOSP and call it a day. Seriously I've wanted something as simple as that in the stock suite since Froyo O.O
I don't want to use it....loving it.....and next spring, Google cuts it loose like the Reader.
I like Google Keep, its nice and simple , clean etc, works great for me, but I have a little question, how do you color code the notes ?
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I like Google Keep, its nice and simple , clean etc, works great for me, but I have a little question, how do you color code the notes ?
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Never Mind ,, found it , now I feel silly ,
10 best note taking apps for Android
I would like to know which is a good Note app
which will sync, so if I change or format my phone
I still have all my notes
Which of these Apps would do that or suggest one please
Thanks
Google keep is nice. It's more for lists in my opinion. This Syncs using Google account
The Note 7 will have Samsung Notes, which will contain the S Notes within it and it syncs across devices using Samsung account
I suppose it depends on what you are looking for it to do.
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Evernote and One note?
SNote actually does that by default!I have all my Notes synced on Samsung since my Note 2 days!
Evernote is also very nice as Majeeed mentioned
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Google keep is nice. It's more for lists in my opinion. This Syncs using Google account
The Note 7 will have Samsung Notes, which will contain the S Notes within it and it syncs across devices using Samsung account
I suppose it depends on what you are looking for it to do.
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Thanks Bro will try it
Im looking for keeping my Personal Accounts
& which will syncs across devices cos i keep buying new Samsung phone every 6 months
Samsung Store suggested Every Note
I work as a tutor and has to write down a lot of stuff and math equations on my device. Squid becomes quite handy for me. Here is my top list:
1. Squid (because it´s very intuitive)
2. Lecture Notes (It has every feature you need)
3. Snote (feature rich but every year a complete new interface pops up)
4. Evernote (limited in features, bur perfect for organizing your notes)
Does anyone know if Samsungs Smart Switch will transfer notes from iOS to Snote?
I've tried several and keep going back to Google Keep. It has all the features I generally need and it's very easy and fast to navigate.
SomNote - Beautiful note app
This is the Best i like
★ Features
- Taking a journal: Take journals and edit with SomNote. You can take pictures and attach it and also put a picture you draw yourself into a note. Wanna read pdf and text files? Just pull it from PC and read it on your mobile device.
- Making a folder: Folder feature is now included in SomNote. Make any folder in any color and name you like - categorize all your notes according to your taste.
- Protecting your secret: SomNote will protect your journals. You can lock your journal, folder, and even SomNote itself. Keep your secret journals safe from others with ease!
- Finding your journals: You can find every journal with the search menu. It will instantly highlight every note and folder simultaneously as you type what you want to find.
★ Extra features
- Auto sync: Every journal and file written and attached in SomNote will be synced automatically after you log-in. SomNote will keep everything you write safely even if you initialize or lose your mobile.
- Theme: Meet special SomNote, picking up themes designed in various ways.
- Font: Four beautiful fonts are waiting for you in the setting menu in addition to basic system fonts and more gorgeous fonts are coming. Stay tune with SomNote!
- Sort: You can sort your journals by a date and alphabetical order and we will add more sorting methods steadily.
- Restore: When you activate automatic backup, you can restore a deleted note from the trash. Try it on SomNote web.