Note to Self

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For decades, and even centuries, students, journalists, and authors, stuffed notebook after notebook with lectures, interviews, accounts, narratives and whatnot. Everyone had to find someplace to keep them until at some point, they would have to throw them all out. The result: tons of personal and professional history poured down the drain. But since the emergence of laptops and cellphones, you need not carry your pen and notebook everywhere you go. All you need is your smartphone and you are good to go. Listed down are eight note-taking apps to help you jot down with ease.

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1.  This app presents a much simpler and perhaps more perceptive user interface. It also incorporates typed notes, recordings, and photos. With color-coded arrows to manage your lectures and reports, getting organized will not be much of a problem. Dropbox can help you sync your notes to your laptop or desktop computer as well.

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2.  Like Penultimate, this multiplatform app was designed to let you scribble down notes and draw up concepts on your mobile device with the use of your fingertip or a stylus. The app allows you to cut, copy, and paste items between pages, on top of its touch gestures so you can zoom and pan around your notes effortlessly.

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3. This is an excellent note-taking app that lets you scribble down notes, snap photos, make to-do lists, and more. You can also create notebooks to manage extensive topics, and then make separate notes in each. Evernote is available for a variety of platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone, as well as Mac and PC, which gives you the liberty to access your notes and reports on any device and stay organized and efficient.

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4.  Its ability to sync your notes with your Gmail account is what makes it different from other contenders. The app likewise features speech-to-text and camera integration, allowing you to attach photos, audio recordings, videos, and all that. Once linked to your Google account, a new Notes folder will be created automatically in your Gmail inbox, which, essentially keeps your notes searchable, backed up, and accessible from anywhere.

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5.  For Android users, this is another admirable note-taker that enables you to take down notes, add photos, and make a recording, among other things. Added to that, you can color-code your notes, making it efficient for studying and research. Each note is also characterized by a thumbnail which gives you a clue of what is inside.

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6.  As the name implies, its functionality revolves around pen input so you can jot down notes, as well as make illustrations on the fly. An iPad-exclusive note-taking app, Penultimate rewards its users with a responsive user interface which features efficient palm rejection to avoid any unwanted marks. Because of its integration with Evernote, you can simply sync your notes with your Evernote library.

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7.  Current Microsoft customers are OneNote’s primary audience because of its full integration with Microsoft Office, which is definitely an edge over competing apps. Microsoft’s OneNote cloud-storage platform, by design, syncs with the app, enabling its users to access their notes anywhere on any device connected to the Internet. The mobile version is available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

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8.  Simplenote, as the name implies, is very simple. You put stuff into writing, and that’s it. Unable to find some readings? You can simply type in what you are looking for, and then find notes in a jiffy. You will never again misplace a significant thought. Moreover, Simplenote is equally obtainable as it is available as a web app, and as a download for iOS, Android, Mac, and Kindle devices.