Noteshelf 2 Overview
What is Noteshelf 2? Noteshelf is a note-taking app that allows users to take notes in their natural handwriting, type, annotate PDFs, and record audio. The app offers a range of pens, pencils, and highlighters, as well as formatting options like bulleted/numbered lists and checkboxes. Users can also import PDFs, MS Office documents, or images and markup documents and images. Noteshelf provides handwriting recognition in 65 different languages and allows users to search through their handwritten notes and convert them to text. The app also offers multi-screen workflow, auto-publishing to Evernote, and secure note-taking with passcodes, Face ID, and Touch ID.
Features
- Fluid handwriting with a range of pens, pencils, and highlighters
- Search through handwritten notes and convert them to text
- Markup PDFs, MS Office documents, and images
- Type text, create outlines, and checkboxes
- Record audio notes and play them back while taking handwritten notes
- Multi-task with multiple windows of Noteshelf
- Create voice notes with Noteshelf for the Apple Watch
- Bookmark important pages and name and color them for easy searching
- Auto-publish notes to Evernote
- Access to 100s of paper templates and notebook covers with Noteshelf Club
- Auto-shapes to draw perfect geometrical shapes
- Auto-backup to Dropbox and OneDrive
- Share notes with colleagues, friends, and family via Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, and OneDrive
- Secure note-taking with passcodes, Face ID, and Touch ID
- Siri integration to create new notebooks, search for existing notebooks, or open a notebook
- Create multiple folders and subfolders to keep notes organized
- Dark color scheme available on iOS 13 for iPhones and iPad OS for iPads.
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Product Details and Description of
Digital note-taking, simplified! Student, working professional, or bullet journalist, Noteshelf is a perfect note-taking app for you. Take beautiful notes in your natural handwriting just as you would on a notepad, but only better. You can type, annotate PDFs & record audio. You can also personalize your notes with beautiful covers and organize them the way you want. What's more - you can sync and share them with your colleagues, friends, and family! FLUID HANDWRITING Experience natural writing in Noteshelf—as smooth and fluid as writing on a notepad. Choose from a range of pens, pencils, and highlighters; a wider range of colors and sizes to suit your needs. Our fountain pen makes your handwriting look gorgeous! SEARCH/ CONVERT HANDWRITTEN NOTES/ OCR You can search through the notes taken on your own handwriting and even convert handwriting to text. We provide handwriting recognition in 65 different languages. MARKUP DOCUMENTS & IMAGES Import PDFs, MS Office documents or images; or add them to your existing notebooks. Highlight, underline or write notes on your documents/images. TYPE TEXT, CREATE OUTLINES & CHECKLISTS Noteshelf brings you the convenience of typing too. You can choose from many styles and formatting options like bulleted/ numbered lists, and checkboxes. RECORD AUDIO NOTES Record audio as you take notes so you never miss anything important at school or work. Add as many recordings as you want and play them back anytime, even as you take handwritten notes. Loved by students while taking lecture notes! MULTI-TASK LIKE A PRO Open up multiple windows of Noteshelf and work simultaneously with ease. This multi screen workflow of using 2 notes side by side will work only on iPads running on the iPad OS. GO HANDS-FREE WITH APPLE WATCH Create voice notes with Noteshelf for the Apple Watch. You needn’t have your iPhone or iPad nearby. Auto-save all your recordings to the iPhone and use iCloud to sync them across devices. Take notes later as you listen to those recordings. DO MORE THAN JUST BOOKMARK Sometimes notebooks might run into hundreds of pages. So, bookmark important pages, name and color them to search with ease. EVERNOTE AUTO-PUBLISH Auto-publish your notes one-way into Evernote and access them on Evernote, from just about anywhere. NOTESHELF CLUB 100s of beautifully crafted paper templates and notebook covers to go with your good notes. Get them for free when you signup for the Noteshelf Club! Find paper templates for student notes, meetings memos, to-do lists, shopping lists, personal health trackers, journals, and many more! SOME MORE FEATURES iPhone and iPad support. Mac app coming soon! Squares, circles or triangles, use auto-shapes to draw perfect geometrical shapes with ease. Auto-backup to Dropbox & OneDrive. Share your notes with colleagues, friends, and family. We support - Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, and OneDrive. Secure your notes with passcodes. We also support Face ID and Touch ID to lock and unlock your notebooks. Ask Siri to create a new notebook, search for an existing notebook, or open a notebook in a snap! Create multiple folders and subfolders to keep your notes organised. Keep your personal and business notes separate. Drag and drop notebooks into groups or categories easily on the iPad OS. We now support a dark color scheme - as beautiful as the system-wide dark mode. (Only on iOS 13 for iPhones and iPad OS for iPads). Noteshelf is on the way to delight it’s users with amazing features which makes it your go-to app for note-taking. Got a suggestion? We'd love to hear from you—write to us at noteshelf(at)fluidtouch.biz! Happy note-taking!
Top Reviews
By Brigandell
Amazing handwriting recognition
I write a lot, it’s my main purpose for my iPad. I started out using Nebo but had a ton of problems, mainly with handwriting recognition. I got this app recommended to me and it’s wonderful. My handwriting on the iPad is way worse that on actual paper. It’s so smooth and I have difficulty breaking up words. This app from what I’ve seen so far as no problems when converting my writing to text, it’s a dream. I don’t have to convert it to text, slap it in Word, and edit it again. I can just edit everything in here and it’ll be good to go. There are two features I wish it had. First the ability to automatically switch back to the pen after you’ve lifted your pencil while using the eraser. Because of my horrid hand writing I’m using the eraser a lot and it’s a little annoying to constantly have to switch back and forth. Second, I wish you could change the page layout to scroll as opposed to flip. Scrolling to allow the bottom of the page to be the top of the page would be fantastic. I find writing on the last couple of lines to be difficult, but that’s also another personal problem. All in all this is my new writing/note taking app. I’ve purchased A LOT of the ones available and I’ve never been truly satisfied till I ran across this one. I love it so far.
By jenna_016
Love, but looking for improvements
I love this app. It has everything I need for school, and I don’t use paper notebooks anymore. Some suggestions I have for future updates: it would be nice to be able to select an area to move it to another location on the paper. It would also be nice when typing if there was an option for it to continue automatically to the next page like a word document. The ability to create chapters in a notebook would be beneficial. And finally, the ability to edit the names of tags would be helpful. One issue I have is that when I change the size of the paper of a document I have imported to Noteshelf, it wipes out the information already on the page. It would be nice to be able to increase the size of a page without getting rid of the typing (I experience this when trying to increase the size of a page from a PowerPoint document in order to make notes on it). Regardless, I use this app every day and it works very well. I am looking forward to new features being added soon! This app works very well with Dropbox which makes turning in documents online or printing very easy. I highly recommend this app to any college student!
By Steve Smith Racine
All day every day
I have been using Noteshelf 2 with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. I use it to take notes - perfectly duplicates the experience of pen and legal pad. I do that with screen mirroring and Apple TV as a simple way of allowing clients to watch the note-taking, improving their comprehension - I can diagram freehand on the fly, too, as they watch, and they love it. I also use Notepad 2 and Apple Pencil to hand write notes, planning my day, planning my week, reflecting afterwards on what went well and how to build on those accomplishments. All the experts concur that HANDWRITTEN NOTES are better then typing notes - stays in the brain better. But Notepad 2 is better than legal pad, because I can erase, move selected parts around on the “page,” even reduce the size of selected notes to make “just a little extra room” on the page. My workflow has me immediately saving all client notes as PDFs to my desktop for long term storage and reference, minimizing what is on kept my iPad. I cannot imagine working without Noteshelf, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
