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Best hand writing note taking app????

Does anyone use their Xoom for taking handwritten notes?
I want to use the device for school and got a great pen that works with it, but I only found a drawing app that MAY work.
What does everyone else use for notes? Does anyone hand-write their notes?
I did purchase evernote, but may opt out due to that they have access to your notes (crazy). Plus it is "typed" input only.
Thanks in advance

I'm looking for something like this as well.
I bought the T9 keyboard hoping to be able to write quickly with my stylus, but unfortunately the handwriting recognition is far poorer than my writing allows. Could never be useful in real life for me.
There were several good ones for the iPad when I had it - I'm sure a good android version will come around soon.

Try Handrite and Excellent use case review for stylus note apps
You should try Handrite. It has the beginnings of the iPad apps reviewed in the link below. The fact that it integrates to Evernote is a plus. I think I have found something that will work for me for now.
But for the Holy Grail of stylus based input apps...
I ran across this review of the note taking apps for iPad. The review uses the specific context of a medical professional; but I think it does a terrific job in highlighting the features that will be important to any stylus based app written for Honeycomb. Notes Plus looks like a winner with Note Taker HD a close second. Both developer web sites have very informative videos introducing their applications. I would recommend that we all lobby these developers to be "first to market" for their Android Honeycomb versions. Some of you older readers may find it interesting that Note Taker HD is written by Dan Bricklin. Dan was the author of VisiCalc, the original spreadsheet and precursor to Lotus 123 which was blown out of existence by MS Excel.
Link to the review: http://www.imedicalapps.com/2011/03/ipad-stylus-review-note-taking-apps-best/
Link to Notes Plus: http://notesplusapp.com/
Link to Note Taker HD: http://www.softwaregarden.com/products/notetakerhd/index.html . Videos at the bottom of the page.
One additional point... When asked about an Android version, Dan Bricklin (Noter Taker HD) commented that he wants to get the backlog of features in the iPad version completed before he begins an Android port. He also commented that in order to get the required performance for the app, he needed to do a lot of system level and direct hardware coding... so it is likely not a trival porting effort. Viet Tran (Notes Plus) stated that he wouldn't begin looking at an Android port for another 6 months. Viet probably will need to address the same performance coding issues that Dan speaks of.

Along that vein, can someone point out the holy grail of styluses?
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Great write-up...Thanks! D'Oh---Ipad gets all the goodies! Handrite is pretty good..will try it out in class!
I purchased the Pen/Stylus from Amazon - it is noted as "Kensington 2nd Generation Apple iPad 1 and 2 / iPhone / iPod / Motorola Xoom Tablet / Galaxy / Blackberry Playbook Virtuoso Touch Screen Stylus and Pen (Black) Newest Model"
It is a solid pen plus the back side is a stylus!

I use WritePad with a Targus stylus and it works wonderfully. What shocked me was the fact that it has a built in function so that if you write " 1+1= " it will work as a calculator and type out 1+1=2 (not that I am actually using it for simple math but i though that was cool. Check it out online and see if you like it.

I have the Kensington. I like it because it is about 1/2 inch longer than the other capped pen stylus. It feels more like a standard pen in your hand. It works well with the Handrite app.

Don't get a pogo. I have a boxwave that is awesome and it appears to be the way other companies are making them now. Also there is a project on kickstarter called cosmonaut that I have ordered one from. If I ever get it and remember I will report back on the quality.

Ok, so of the 180,456,192 Note taking apps for android that I have installed on my Xoom over the last 2 weeks. This one seems to be the best (I Think my Crap-tastic Griffin stylus has a lot to do with most little issues)
One request I would have for the developer is to come up with a way to detect the hand being placed on the screen to allow more natural writing position.
Even if the dev where to maybe add a box or an area of the screen that is not part of the drawing canvas. possibly disable the lower half, and do and auto-magic scrolling when the text reached that far?

I do like the app. It has a way to go but it is a good start. And thanks for the stylus suggestions.

I haven't tried it yet but something like Writepad by a company called Phatware used in conjunction with Evernotes might be a useable solution. They just released a new version.
Just Google "phatware writepad for android"

Simple Overview of a Targus Stylus. Works and feels pretty standard. I also take a look at Handwrite App and text highlighting.

Writepad has a 24 demo apk available. I tested it out and I feel it is by far the best solution I have found.

How is writepad for other things than text?
If all I wanted to write was text, then I would just used a keyboard - a very important feature for me is to be able to seamlessly switch back from figures (mathematical in nature, not detailed sketches) to [hand]writing. How well does Handrite do this?

i use this for notes at uni. Wicked app https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cerience.reader.app&feature=search_result

EzPDF Reader has freehand annotations now, too. It's only a buck and looks/works fantastic on the XOOM. It's my favorite PDF app by far, and the freehand annotations made it even better.
ezPDF Reader
I just need a good stylus now.

Try FreeNote is by far the best.

cymersa said:
Try FreeNote is by far the best.
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I also think FreeNote is decent.
...xoom posted...

FreeNote
I do not have a Zoom, only a Droid phone - but I tried out a bunch of handwriting apps including Handrite and Genial Writing on that and found that for me, the best is FreeNote. I was so impressed that I wrote a review/user guide on it over at Droid Forums:
droidforums.net/forum/app-announcements/183513-app-freenote-game-changing-hand-writing-app-keeping-notes.html
The developer of FreeNote is from China.

Need info on note taking before buying...

I'm looking at the G-Note as my next phone. I already know Android, but I need to know is the Note good at taking extensive notes, not just "Look at this" notes. I'm not talking about writing term papers on it, but a few paragraphs. Also, is there Google Docs integration. That would be awesome.
thanks in advanced.

Personally i wouldnt take more than a few sentences of notes if i needed too.. But everyone is different..

It's a large screen phone, not a tablet PC.
YMMV. If you can type fast on a software keyboard, go for it. Or maybe a bluetooth keyboard and mouse typing directly into Google Docs would work for you? I wouldn't rely on the S-Pen for fast lecture notes though...but it's possible with practice.
You may be better suited for a Galaxy Nexus and, say, a Wacom Tablet PC (like my Lenovo X220 tablet with one note) for extensive note taking.

ericshmerick said:
It's a large screen phone, not a tablet PC.
YMMV. If you can type fast on a software keyboard, go for it. Or maybe a bluetooth keyboard and mouse typing directly into Google Docs would work for you? I wouldn't rely on the S-Pen for fast lecture notes though...but it's possible with practice.
You may be better suited for a Galaxy Nexus and, say, a Wacom Tablet PC (like my Lenovo X220 tablet with one note) for extensive note taking.
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+1 on the X220 for extensive handwritten note taking.
That said, you can still pair up a full sized bluetooth keyboard (like the MS Mobile Keyboard 6000) just fine and use a dedicated bit of office software, like QuickOffice Pro. You can probably make annotations with your s-pen afterwards if need be. Might be a bit clunky in practice, but it's an idea at least.

Thanks for the info. The notes I will be taking will b at my own speed. I work in networking and I do a lot of network diagrams and take notes on test results. So I wouldn't be trying to write a mile a minute. I'll look into you're suggestions.
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1jaxstate1 said:
Thanks for the info. The notes I will be taking will b at my own speed. I work in networking and I do a lot of network diagrams and take notes on test results. So I wouldn't be trying to write a mile a minute. I'll look into you're suggestions.
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I think the Gnote would be perfect for something like that..

I am using the note for note taking, at first when I used it, I used the software that Samsung has incorporated into the note for that purpose, although the conversion of my handwriting to text was ok, I found myself having to correct words fairly often. On this basis I would have still recommended it for your purposes with my comments highlighted.
I also own an Asus transformer tablet, I did use this for note taking but at times, for me it was still too big to carry around all the time, this might be an issue for you too if you considered something like the X220 as recommended by others. On the transformer, I bought an app from the market called WritePad which is an app that changes your handwriting into text, this app was ok on the transformer however I would not have recommended it either as the recognition was similar to the Notes performance.
I have now installed WritePad on the Note and expected the same results however I can very confidently say that this app is awesome on the Note, I get about 95% accuracy when writing continuously on the Note and it is way better than the propriety software supplied with the note. You will get the best results from this app in landscape mode as there will be more writing area and the app can be set to learn your writing style over time.
If you do not need your handwriting to be converted to text, I would say it is ok to write on but you will need to practice a bit until you get accustomed to the pen to glass feel.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to pull the trigger and get this phone. I'm only waiting now to see if it's coming to AT&T or not. I'm going to be with AT&T for a while anyway, might as well score the Note with my upgrade that I have available. Hopefully Samsung will give some information on this at CES. If they don't announce one, I'll get an unlocked Note.

(Request) Samsung galaxy note multi-window feature port

Any chance some enterprising dev could get this running on our nexus 7's
http://phandroid.com/2012/10/05/sam...te-brings-awesome-multi-window-feature-video/http://phandroid.com/2012/10/05/sam...te-brings-awesome-multi-window-feature-video/
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That would be cool if they could, but I'm guessing this is deeply integrated into Touch wiz.
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Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
Umm .. *cough* *cough* Cornerstone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX8w3UZIjkc
It's open source. Roman made an ICS/AOKP/Cornerstone build a long time ago ... felt it was too buggy to continue.
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AOKP got this request recently.
Seems a Cornerstone build would be the only way out...which is unlikely.

I'm fully aware this would probably be quite difficult to port, and likely quite time consuming.
Having said that, I also want this. It makes so much more sense on a 7 inch tablet then a 5 inch whatever.

This works with a handful of Google Apps, no other apps. I don't see the point.

khaytsus said:
This works with a handful of Google Apps, no other apps. I don't see the point.
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Running 2 apps at the same time. Seems like a great idea to me. It supports a limited amount of apps, but unlike Galaxy Note 10.1, you could probably hack in other apps to work.

khaytsus said:
This works with a handful of Google Apps, no other apps. I don't see the point.
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Yes, but the Galaxy Note 2 supports all apps in multi-window mode...

This would be *nice* to have but I don't know how much easier it would be then to just multitasking between 2 apps now and having the apps full screen. I can see some of the benefits like watching a youtube video while chatting on Google Talk. There are some good alternatives such as popup video players and notepads that overlay on top of current app and typically are resizable and movable.
While it makes sense this would be better on a 7" then a 5"... it really would be best on a 10". 7" barely gives me enough breathing room for 1 app. Plus most of the "compatible apps" are simple things like a calculator and notes

Well it seems VERY useful to me.
It's better than popup apps in my opinion - more app options.

Overscreen browser is a great alternative for now
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No, it's not.
This allows multiple apps to run side by side, Overskreen is just the browser. Also, it's not even compatible with Jelly Bean, so no one who owns a Nexus 7 can use it.

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Yes, but the Galaxy Note 2 supports all apps in multi-window mode...
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No, as I said, handful of specific Google apps. Read up on it. Will the list grow? Maybe? I'd have to guess it is a sdk used to support the function, is it worth app dev time to do it and possibly maintain multiple versions of their app?

more then google apps
Not just google apps can do this on the samsung note 10.1 .
samsng snote and lecture app
browser
vidoe player
picture gallery
polaris office
Photo shop (special note version)
I think there a few others that are on the samsung web app store. Samsung sbe adding apps to this.
Now for the bubble burst. The reason they work on the galaxy note is the new QUAD Core cpu and 2 GB Very fast ram .. samsung tried to release a less ram/power version of the 10.1 note with a higer res display. they backed the display down and increased the cpu//ram. this is also to support the WACOM S PEN..
I have been reading alot about the device because mine will be here Monday. So the above if from my reading and research. I can update you more mid next week.. I do not see a need for split windows on a 7 inch screen .. get the overscreen browser and try it.. JUST Does not work for productive work...
Hope this help make it more understandable... too bad samsung did not make the n7 . i give up because of the screen issues sent two of them back and will NOT order a 3rd...

Dude. Overskreen DOES NOT work on Jelly Bean. And it is just one app, vs an entire suite of Google Apps.
Also there's no need for window management.
Nexus 7 has a quad-core processor too, just less RAM - which isn't even a problem, it still can handle side by side apps.
And you're telling some weird stuff here. We are talking about Galaxy Note 2, which allows more apps, and works better. AND it works on a 5 inch screen, so it'll be awesome on a seven inch.
So yeah, please don't come back with your 'research' to tell us that you think that this feature is unnecessary.

i hope sincerely as a dev can make a mod for port this feature in future beacause it's very usefull even if work only with google apps it's better ,
anyone know if a moded youtube apps existing for play a video on background because i search since 3 month but not find ?
thx

I don't think there is one, sadly. Android doesn't support true multitasking

While i would love to have or port this it simply isnt possible, it requires a lot of changing to the frameworks and it would be hard to decompile all of samsungs sources and extract it.

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I don't think there is one, sadly. Android doesn't support true multitasking
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Stock android not, but there are a few roms with cornerstone, i think mainly on 10 inch tablets.

Web os did this kinda on a dual core wish android would absorb that multitasking feature right now running multiple apps kinda is a hit and miss
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Tab s2 9.7 or IPAD PRO 9.7

Hi,
I want to buy a new tablet and confused between the above two models. Can someone please help me which one should i buy.
My basic usage would be reading PDF's, movies and communication.
How easy it is to store your own files on IPAD pro (without mac), I am confused as it does not come with USB port.
I know IPAD is not customizable but then with samsung own knox etc, its also not so customizable anymore. But advantage is storage and USB and access to file system.
Please provide some input.

veenab said:
Hi,
I want to buy a new tablet and confused between the above two models. Can someone please help me which one should i buy.
My basic usage would be reading PDF's, movies and communication.
How easy it is to store your own files on IPAD pro (without mac), I am confused as it does not come with USB port.
I know IPAD is not customizable but then with samsung own knox etc, its also not so customizable anymore. But advantage is storage and USB and access to file system.
Please provide some input.
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Tab S2 9.7 hands down.
You CAN customize it at any time, Knox will not stop or make it harder for you. Rooting the S2 is very easy and opens a great deal of customisation possibilities.
The only thing that I consider superior iPad pro over tab s2 is the camera. Other than that, s2 rules
I tried to use an iPad for a year or so... But I gave up, no more iPads for me.

4:3 for movies sucks, look for other tabs with 16:9 screens

mk89pwnz said:
4:3 for movies sucks, look for other tabs with 16:9 screens
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IMO, watching movies on a 10" screen sucks no matter what the ratio. I don't do it so I don't care about the ratio.

Honestly, the S2 is much better in every way, just be prepared for more often trips to the charger

thanks guys, so S2 it is.. will buy on Saturday.
One thing are we getting the android N? and would rooting trip the Knox counter?
Did u guys change the DPI, is everything smooth on 520 DPI or lesser?

veenab said:
thanks guys, so S2 it is.. will buy on Saturday.
One thing are we getting the android N? and would rooting trip the Knox counter?
Did u guys change the DPI, is everything smooth on 520 DPI or lesser?
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Good choice!
Android N highly chances that we will.
Rooting will trip the Knox.
Default dpi is 320. I prefer 270. With this dpi camera interface gets shrunk and memo crashes. The only two things I noted so far.

I'd say slim chance of getting the N release as most of us don't have marshmallow nearly a year after it was released. Poor from Samsung for a flagship device
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IMHO getting the official N release for the "old" Tab S2 devices (SM-T7/810, SM-T7/815) probably won't happen, but if you buy the current Tab S2 (SM-T7/813, SM-T7/819) there's a chance it will.

Samsung Notes missing feature! No Zoom in functionality...

Why is there no zoom functionality available in Samsung Notes anymore? Anybody else notice it? It was very helpful for me to add images of writings & notes in S-note and zoom in to get a better view of the written content. I can no longer do that
No Zoom in functionality available in Samsung Notes.

There is a magnify function with the s-pen, you can select a part of the screen to magnify/zoom

liquidguru said:
There is a magnify function with the s-pen, you can select a part of the screen to magnify/zoom
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Thanks, I did not think of that.
I wish they won't remove the zoom feature though. It was amazing to zoom in on text and now with higher resolution it would have been a pleasant surprise. Kinda bummed out.

umair239 said:
Thanks, I did not think of that.
I wish they won't remove the zoom feature though. It was amazing to zoom in on text and now with higher resolution it would have been a pleasant surprise. Kinda bummed out.
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i do not know if this helps, but you could download the latest s note and use it like normal. The action memo also works great too

Having the same issue with the Samsung Notes app - looks like they rolled out a new version of the app that isn't in the Play Store for the Note 8. Note 8 is version 2.0.00.83, and the one in the Play Store is 1.5.00-56 - pinch zoom works fine on the older version which I haveon my Tab A w/ S-pen.
Magnify tool works well for reading notes, but I'm used to zooming in before writing so I can fit more on one page.

dcf123 said:
Having the same issue with the Samsung Notes app - looks like they rolled out a new version of the app that isn't in the Play Store for the Note 8. Note 8 is version 2.0.00.83, and the one in the Play Store is 1.5.00-56 - pinch zoom works fine on the older version which I haveon my Tab A w/ S-pen.
Magnify tool works well for reading notes, but I'm used to zooming in before writing so I can fit more on one page.
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I have the exact same issue. I am all about updates as long as features aren't reduced. Sadly, that's the case with Samsung Notes. You can no longer zoom in to fit more in one page.
Also they removed the Multi clip feature in Note 4 where you could have as many as 10 screen clippings in one sitting and then add them to where ever you wanted. That feature was removed in Note 5. No wonder people call most of Samsung features gimmicks since they don't have the nuts to be confident in their own intuitive features whereas Apple stands by their ****ty features arrogantly even if they're completely useless. I've had all the notes so far and am now on Note 8 and am wondering why Samsung does this ****.

piezan said:
i do not know if this helps, but you could download the latest s note and use it like normal. The action memo also works great too
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I gave that ago but S-note freezes on Note 8. They probably deemed it useless. What a pleasant surprise from Samsung.

umair239 said:
I gave that ago but S-note freezes on Note 8. They probably deemed it useless. What a pleasant surprise from Samsung.
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I have been using it since I got my Note 8 I will upload the APK

I cannot upload it, too large I'll see what else I can do