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Notebooks for iPad

       iOS iPad

Notebooks is the one and only notebook that you'll ever need. It allows you to conveniently write, capture and organize your ideas, notes, reminders, journals, diaries or details of life that you want to keep close at hand. If you need to take an important note, or search for one, you'll always have the ultimate notebook at your fingertips!

Notebooks stores and displays almost any document you want to carry with you: text and HTML, PDF documents, MS Office or iWork documents, web pages, photos, videos, music and even your Palm memos. Everything you would usually print out and file can now go directly into Notebooks, without adding bulk.

There is one more thing: keep your task lists in Notebooks and tick off your to-dos as you complete them. Divide your projects into nested sub projects, which makes them easier to handle, and cross-reference to your reference library, which you keep in Notebooks, too. When a task reaches its due date, Notebooks' badge on the home screen reminds you of pending business, and an optional acoustic alert tries to draw your attention.

Notebooks combines the power of multiple apps:

  • Note Taker
  • Text Processor
  • Markdown Composer
  • Task Manager
  • File Storage
  • Clipboard Manager
  • PDF Converter


What exactly can you do with Notebooks?

  • Create beautifully formatted documents
  • Type plain text notes
  • Use WYSIWYG style editing
  • Use Markdown to create formatted HTML
  • Select your favorite fonts, colors and patterns
  • Draw sketches with your finger or a dedicated stylus

  • Import text, HTML, RTF, PDF, MS Office, Apple iWork documents, photos or web archives
  • Import iPad or iPhone Notes and Palm Memos
  • Create new documents from the contents of the Clipboard
  • Open documents from other apps in Notebooks
  • Import web pages from Safari
  • Import documents from Mail and other iPad apps
  • Import and extract ZIP archives

  • Create ZIP archives in Notebooks
  • Convert documents to PDF

  • Record Voice Memos

  • Manage your Task Lists and get things done
  • Assign due dates and alarm times
  • Leverage your reference library in Notebooks
  • Sort your tasks and documents by context

  • Create as many nested books as you need
  • Move, rename and restructure your documents and books
  • Sort documents by title, by modification date or by custom sort order
  • Search books and documents by title
  • Search full text of plain text, HTML, iWork, Office, RTF and web archives
  • Protect your confidential documents with a passcode.
  • Use Notebooks’ links (URLs) to cross-reference documents or books within Notebooks,
     or to open them from other applications.

  • Synchronize with Dropbox
  • Synchronize with WebDAV servers
  • Use iTunes’ File Sharing
  • Use Notebooks’ WiFi Sharing
  • Send notes and documents by Mail.

  • … and much much more


So, whether you want to draft or outline a business presentation, type a chapter of your short-story, list your inventory, save web pages for reading later, write an entry in your diary or journal, tick off your tasks, or just capture notes and ideas on the go, you need to have Notebooks on your iPad today!

For more information and screenshots, please visit our website.

➤ By the way: there is a version of Notebooks for iPhone, too.

What's new

Notebooks 5.0.1 resolves several issues that were introduced in 5.0

• Fixes issues related to formatted documents
• Resolves an issue with global background color
• No more black cells in move and jump list
• Corrected too strict passcode protection
• No accidental autosync for unzipped documents
• plist files no longer sync when setting is off
• "Default document Type" is used in book's add menu
• Fix for crash after moving last formatted document
• Added option to set maximum zoom scale for images
• Improved display of recorded voice memos
• Added new background color for done tasks
• Reliably show window for adding photos from album


Notebooks 5 is a major update with numerous improvements and additions. As usual, we recommend to back up the contents of Notebooks before installing the new version. These are the most important additions and changes:

➤ New Interface, more modern, more intuitive, less clutter

➤ Formatted Documents (requires iOS 5)
    • WYSIWYG Editing
    • Document styles, paragraph format, text alignment
    • Embedded images and lists
    • Apply text styles, font color or highlight phrases

➤ General Editing Improvements
    • Define your own set of Extra Keyboard Keys
    • Better handling of large text documents (400.000 characters and more)

➤ PDF Conversion
    • Convert any document type that Notebooks can display to PDF
    • Optionally protect PDF documents with a password
    • Select portrait or landscape layout

➤ Sketches
    • Portrait or landscape orientation (default is device's orientation)
    • Rotate sketches
    • "Wrist protection"
    • Option to use current paper pattern as background

➤ Voice Memos
    • Record while typing and working on other documents
    • Copy voice memo's link and paste it into a formatted document
for an "embedded voice note"

➤ Tasks
    • Set default Inbox
    • Extract tasks from a note by a custom “marker”
    • Option to hide “Done Tasks”

➤ Search
    • Use multiple words or phrases to narrow the search results
    • Search can be stopped with a new Cancel button
    • Search is diacritic insensitive (Ü=u, e=è etc.)
    • Highlight search hits in Office, iWork and RTF documents, too

➤ Gestures
    • Plain text: tap once to make text editable (iOS5)
    • Combined Markdown: tap once to switch to plain text view (iOS5)
    • While editing, swipe left or right to hide keyboard
    • Single tap with two fingers to switch to fullscreen mode and back
PDF documents appear in an advanced view with thumbnails
    • Touch and hold a list entry to open its info window

➤ Dropbox
    • Much improved automatic sync
    • More reliable "move and delete" procedure
    • Warning when book is empty on Dropbox but not in Notebooks
    • Option to solve sync conflicts immediately (no sync report)
    • Option to solve conflicts automatically
    • Option to ignore ".dot" files
    • Improved sync reports, which now generally appear at the top level
    • Fix for "Cocoa Error 4"

➤ WebDAV Sync
    • Warning when folder is empty on server but not in Notebooks
    • Option to ignore ".dot" files
    • Correctly report user agent

➤ WiFi Sharing
    • Set custom port number
    • correctly report creation date to the WebDAV client

➤ Misc
    • Create an editable copy from webarchive
    • Change file extension of documents
    • improved print quality


The complete list of changes is available from our website.

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Last changed:

May 25, 2012

Category:

Productivity

Developer:

Alfons Schmid

Version:

5.0.1

Average Rating:

3.50 (394)

Size:

14.6 MB

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