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Mental Note ๛ app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 6736 ratings )
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Developer: Zymbiotic Technologies
3.99 USD
Current version: 3.15, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 20 Nov 2009
App size: 14.76 Mb

"...a true notepad experience that may help you make a clean break from the pencil-and-paper era." -New York Times.

Users describe Mental Note as "the only notepad app... thats actually better than, and as simple as, a pen and paper." Its "the future of note taking", and "a big sketchpad... [to] free associate and put stuff down in any format".

Turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a digital notepad. Combine photographs, voice recordings, drawings and text - all on the same page, in any order you choose.

An idea... a flash - a moment of genius. When a thought hits, and you have to remember it, why limit how you record it? The more context and sensory details you can capture, the clearer the idea can be put down. Use photographs, audio, sketching and text together on the same page... a digital page that can be shared with anyone.

Mental Note allows you to capture ideas as they happen: use photographs, dictate, add text, sketch on anything. Ideas clarified. Creativity captured.


FEATURES

- Draw with your finger using multiple colours and widths on top of photographs, text, or anywhere else on the page. Zoom in to sketch fine details.

- Take a photo or choose one from your album and add it to the page.

- Add audio to the page by recording with the built-in microphone (iPhone) or an external microphone (iPod touch). Continue to edit your note while recording.

- Organize your notes using tags.

- Password protect your private notes and flag your important ones.

- Attach Calendar events to your notes.

- Undo, redo anything in the note by shaking the device.

- Delete note sections using the toolbar button or by swiping any note section.

- Move a note section by swiping and then dragging it to its new location.

- Length of a note is limited only by device memory.

- Export in a variety of formats including PDF, text, Mental Note format, and more. Send using email, iCloud, Dropbox, and more.

* Send a note in Mental Note format so the note may be imported into another persons Mental Note app.

* Using email, export a complete note directly from Mental Note as either a PDF document or a picture (each audio recording is attached to the email as a separate file; use QuickTime or another modern media player to play the attached audio). You can also email just the text from your note.

- Export your notes and backups to your iCloud and/or Dropbox account.

- Share a note with your friends using Twitter.

- Map the location a note was created at (if location services are enabled).

- Change the size and font of the text in your notes.

- Change the color and background of your notes.

- Numerous other configuration options.

- Supports all orientations.


THIS VERSION IS OPTIMIZED FOR iPhone & iPod touch. FOR iPad, PLEASE SEE Mental Note for iPad.


Read more: www.zymbiotic.com
Twitter: @zymbiotic
Facebook: facebook.com/zymbiotic

Pros and cons of Mental Note ๛ app for iPhone and iPad

Mental Note ๛ app good for

This app is too handy. I use that a lot. Unfortunately when using a photo it cant be rotate and annotation on image could have a text tool.
This app is the only app that has all the functions I need in a note app EXCEPT for the following: when you import a picture in a note it is not possible to see it in full size, only a square shaped cutout of it. Please, please fix that!!
Ein echt nahezu perfekter Ersatz für die Apple Notizen App. Das arbeiten damit ist echt klasse, ebenso die Möglichkeiten. 3 technische Dinge vermisse ich: 1. Import aus oder noch besser Sync (dann erübrigt sich Punkt 2.) mit der Apple Notizen App 2. Eine echte realtime Syncfunction. Das eingebaute Handling mittels Export und Import ist umständlich, wenn man nur sein iPhone und sein iPad synchron halten will. 3. Drucken Funktion fehlt. Edit: Geht doch, über Export Other Apps kommt der iOS Dialog über den man auchdrucken kann. In English: Nearly perfect Notes App, as replacement for the original Apple Notes App. Possibilites and usabilty is great. 3 technical things i am missing: 1. Import from or better sync (with sync, option 2. is not needed) with the Apple Notes App. 2. Realtime sync function. The current Export/Import handling is not good usability just holding same data on an iPhone and an iPad. 3. Printing is not possible. Edit: It works, i was wrong! Use export other apps, iOS dialog is coming up with print possibility.
The app is great but there is a serious password big which needs to be fixed. Everybody is able to go to the security settings an change to a new password without being asked the old password first, and then acces any password protected file by using the new password which they set. So there is no real use in protecting a file by password when everybody is able to change it. This problem exists since ever.
This app is extreamly well made. It does a great job at intergrating the iphones various features into one well organized easy to use app! Highly reccomend!
This apps integrated all of my notetaking in one application. I was at a conference and needed to take notes, pictures, scribbles. Mental Note did this in one easy to use application. At the end of the day, I would email everything so I can transcribe notes in my hotel room.

Some bad moments

What is the reason for not including a sync function? @Developers: Please add sync via iCloud or dropbox to sync between iPad and iPhone apps
While the interface is simple and sorta slick... I dont like how it seems I am unable to rearrange the info in my notes after adding to them. Being able to name the audio clips would be helpful too. Think I like 2do better.
All my notes were erased by itself in an instance. Stupid app. Dont use it!!
...I missed important notes because Im NOT able to access to them anymore!! Ps to the developers: let me know how to access my documents again.. I just thought Mental notes was THE BEST APP about notes.. What a shame!!!!
I recommend this app to my students. I make guided notes and with this app they can take a picture of it then fill it in (iPod touch or iPad). The only reason I gave it 1 star was to get attention. SYNCING PLEASE!!!!
Sometimes saves some changes and notes, usually not. Frustrating and unreliably buggy. Lite version worked. Bug report as yet unanswered. Will change review if I hear from them or see update before I delete app. Im keeping but not using it, for time being, still waiting for the update.

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