Best Apps For Handwriting Notes

Handwriting is a dying art. We’ve moved from copying words from books and newspapers to copying them from computer monitors, and now we’re writing on tablet computers that double as telephones and portable televisions. In this article I’ll show you five of my favorite apps for handwriting notes.

Best Apps For Handwriting Notes

Microsoft’s productivity solutions are highly regarded as the best in the business, and OneNote is no exception. If you are on the hunt for a feature-packed note-taking app, look no further.

Being a free-form information gathering app, OneNote lets you capture just about everything and place it anywhere on a flexible digital canvas. You can type, write by hand (using a stylus), clip Web pages and even scan handwritten notes or pages. The app uses virtual notebooks for organizing content and has a design similar to a physical three-ring binder. You can have separate color-coded sections for adding different types of notes, and each section can have multiple pages. OneNote’s powerful search feature lets you quickly find information either on a particular page or across all notebooks. The notes can be organized using custom labels and tags, and you can revise notes with highlights and ink annotations.

Since it’s a part of Microsoft’s Office suite, OneNote plays well with applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The app is available across all major platforms such as iOS and Android.

BEST FOR COLLABORATION
Dropbox Paper
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There may be times when you have to work with a friend or a colleague to gather/share information on a common project. For such occasions, you’ll need an awesome collaborative note taking app, and Dropbox Paper is just that.

Dropbox Paper offers you (and your team) a collaborative workspace where you can not only add and edit notes but also brainstorm, review ideas and even handle meetings. Its task management tools let you assign to-do lists, add due dates and mention others, directly from the active document. Using annotations, you can add comments to a specific part of an image in the document. Connecting your calendar to Paper lets you easily find documents relevant to the meeting’s agenda. From images and audio to YouTube videos and GIFs, you can add almost any type of content to Paper’s workspace. It works seamlessly with external applications such as Sketch and Invision, enabling instant file previews. Being a Dropbox app, Paper integrates well with the cloud storage service, too.

Dropbox Paper is available for both iOS and Android. It can also be accessed online via a browser.

BEST FOR EASE OF USE
Simplenote
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As its name would have you believe, Simplenote is perhaps the simplest note-taking app out on the market. It provides an easy way to maintain notes, lists and ideas. Simplenote’s core experience is all about speed and efficiency. Just launch the app, type some notes and you’re done. You can create as many notes as you want, and edit them whenever required. Once you have a sizeable collection of notes, you can use tags and pins to organize them.

Simplenote’s lightning-fast search functionality lets you quickly find what you’re looking for, with relevant entries that change as you type the search string. All you need to get started with the app is a free account, which lets you back up your content to the cloud. It also synchronizes your notes across multiple devices, allowing you to access them from any PC, tablet or phone. Simplenote works on every platform you can think of, including iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux. It’s also accessible via the Web.

Despite its simplicity, Simplenote has some sharing and collaboration features that make it even more useful. The app even backs up your old notes, and you can drag a slider to access their old versions.

BEST BUILT-IN FOR IOS
Apple Notes
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If you use an iPhone and/or an iPad, you don’t even need to look for a third-party app. Apple’s own Notes app, which comes baked into iOS, is more than sufficient for all your note-taking needs.

From long-form textual notes to to-do lists, Notes lets you jot down everything. You can also add Web links, scanned documents and sketches to notes. To get started, just tap on the New Note icon and type away. You can also use Siri (Apple’s virtual assistant) to create a new note and dictate its content. The app’s camera functionality makes it easy to quickly add photos to notes, and you can also scan paper documents to digitize them into notes.

Apple Notes lets you add attachments such as maps and documents to both new and existing notes directly using the Share option in other apps like Safari. Your notes are stored in the cloud, and iCloud synchronization means you can effortlessly access them on both iOS and macOS devices. Apple Notes supports gesture writing, so you can use your finger to draw right in a note, choosing from a variety of brush styles and colors. If you have an iPad, you can use the Apple Pencil to take handwritten notes.

All the content saved in Apple Notes can be secured with a password or fingerprint.

BEST BUILT-IN FOR ANDROID
Google Keep
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As the developer of the Android, Google makes some of the most popular apps for the operating system. One of them is Google Keep, which is the best first-party note-taking app for Android.

From textual information to photos, Google Keep makes it easy to jot down anything. You can even speak a voice memo on the go, and the app will transcribe it automatically. The notes are organized as digital sticky notes, and each note can be assigned a different color for easier visual identification. You can add individual reminders to each note, plus information such as date, time and place when you want to be reminded. Important notes can be pinned to the top for quicker access, and you can invite other users (via e-mail) to collaborate on notes. Google Notes supports gesture writing, too. Notes can be organized via labels and copied directly to Google Docs. The app makes it extremely simple to create to-do lists and entries can be rearranged and have checkboxes.

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