Jamie Pena's List: iPad Notetaking Apps

GoodNotes lets you take handwritten notes, sketch diagrams, mark-up PDFs and organize them on a beautiful bookshelf. Turn pages with a swipe, highlight or add notes to any page, and share your notes with anyone. GoodNotes will automatically save your notes and has full backup function to prevent data loss.

Note Anytime is ranked #1 app in Japan and is already in the top ten in over a dozen countries. Note Anytime is also Appy Awards 2013 Finalist.

More than a simple note taking app, Note Anytime is also a powerful drawing app, PDF annotation tool, interactive browser, virtual whiteboard and more. Note Anytime is a universal note taker and sketching software for iOS and Windows.

Note Anytime is now available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Chinese(Simplified, Traditional) and Korean!

With cross-platform support on all mobile devices, Note Anytime allows you to take a note or sketch around anything, anywhere, anytime. You can combine handwritten or typed notes with photos and graphics on various paper styles, add sketches and drawings, scale your paper up to a whiteboard or down to a sticky note, and then share it to social networks. Take a Note – Anything, Anywhere…with Note Anytime. Get it now while it is still free!

Generous Variety of Paper and Pens – The free version of Note Anytime does not skimp on features and elements, you are given a generous variety of pen styles and colors which can be customized to your preference for thickness, color and transparency. Paper styles in the item library include stationery, calendars, note types and even musical scores. Additional paper layouts are available from the in-app store.

Calligraphy Pens – The free version of Note Anytime even offers perfect curve correction and highly stylized lettering with calligraphy pens. Artists will appreciate the advanced calligraphy options also available from the in-app store.

Digital Scrapbooking – you can combine any number of elements and redesign in your composition: handwritten text, keypad input, and photos from the device camera, imported jpeg graphics, a PDF file or even a web page.

PDF Annotation – Even the free version of Note Anytime allows you to import a PDF file, markup and enhance and then output as a new PDF with a few simple clicks.

Scaling Functions – With zoom levels of up to 50X scaling and the size of over 25 feet in diameter, no other note application can give you the powerful graphic and photo editing quality of Note Anytime. You can shrink your creations down to the size of a sticky note or up to the size of a billboard while still maintaining 100% visual integrity.

Jump to Feature – You never have to worry about navigating around your document with the easy Jump feature. Any part of your drawing or document can be tagged for easy navigation and retrieval later.

Web page Import and Export – Note Anytime acts as an interactive browser which allows you to go out to a website, import the site as a graphic and then markup, scale, rotate, annotate, and export the result as a high resolution jpeg graphic or PDF file.

High Resolution Graphics – The vector based authoring tools in Note Anytime not only allow you to collapse or expand any graphic without losing visual integrity – but it also allows drawings to be saved as individual jpeg graphics into the item library for infinite reuse later. Even text boxes are treated like high resolution graphics which can be rotated, scaled or moved anywhere within your workspace.

Social Media Sharing Capability – Note Anytime allows you to easily output your new creations via email, social media sharing services (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr), or saved to Dropbox and Digital Cabinet.

Cloud Based Storage Free - Note Anytime even offers convenient batch upload to its own cloud based storage service called Digital Cabinet with 2GB for free and additional space available.

Automatic Sync Across Platforms – When you register for Digital Cabinet, you will never have to worry about losing your data, sketches and drawings or any other critical documents.

The Clockwork Notebook is a simple application for doodling on your iPad. Type with the keyboard, draw with your fingers and add stickers to your pages (use ours, or add your own from your photo library!). Great for kids, grandmas and all the people in between. It’s so easy even executive-level people can use it. Plus it's free so the ROI is, like, amazing.

What are you waiting for? That stick figure isn't going to draw himself! Who is going to add skinny little legs to that photo of your brother? You are. Who is going to play hangman in a meeting? You are. Who crafted this toolbox for time wasters? We did. You’re welcome.

Maxjournal for iPad on the iTunes App Store

DocAS lets you take note, sketch your ideas, annotate PDFs, convert other document format to PDF, do presentation, read documents, record your meetings and classes, and share your notes/documents on your iPad, All-in-One.

All in One, UPAD !!!
Note taking + PDF annotating + Photo decorating
UPAD promised smoothness and speed, on top of countless differentiated features from other similar apps. Let us enlighten your iPad life with what UPAD can do.

1. Handwriting
Writing in UPAD is a joy. Smooth retina ink makes your handwriting look remarkably neat, detailed and sharp. Comfortably lay your hand on our palm rest and start writing using a pen or a marker -from a choice of different colors and widths. Find your favorite paper from the template gallery –more than 30 styles. Use the zoom in window, for more comfort and pin sharp writing.

2. PDF annotation
Open PDF files directly from your email or from any other apps via the “Open In UPAD” dialogue box. Connect to iTunes File Sharing to transfer multiple files at once. UPAD lets you read and annotate PDF documents; handwrite notes, highlight texts, post-it, and reference images.

3. Easy editing
Do not worry about making a mistake. Just copy/move/cut and paste your contents to make it perfect. Page thumbnail window allows you to easily add/move/duplicate and remove pages in a notebook.

4. Share your work
Export your document to PDF or PNG format, and send e-mail or upload to cloud storage services- Dropbox, Evernote and GoogleDocs. Or just post or tweet a single page image using Twitter and Facebook.

5. Inserting Images and shapes
Bring to life your notes by adding images from the photo library or from the iPad camera. Rotate, resize, crop and frame them as needed. Insert a circle, square or line to add extra detail to your notes.

6. Get organized
Organize your documents in your own way. Make folders by subject or matter of importance and collect data into it. Set password to individual files and folders to keep them secure. Add tags to a document and find it using the search feature. Mark your favorite files and see them all in one place. Bookmark also helps you to find specific pages quickly in a document.

7. Backup and restore
UPAD backup/restore is simple and intuitive. Save your backups in iTunes. Use calendar to restore lost data. Just select a day you want to go back and recover your data with a single tap of your finger.

8. And more
Just explore UPAD and find how much you can enjoy your iPad with UPAD.