Notebook - Take notes, To do Reviews

by Cheylonghini

Notebook is great! I love being able to organize things into different notebooks. It really suits my needs. So why the one star? I came to write about an issue that is so annoying I will not be able to use Notebook as much as I’d like. Notebook could replace every other app like it, except for this HUGE issue, and that’s the fact that you can’t highlight sections of text easily at all. It’s really disappointing to see a review from MARCH of this year with the same complaints that I have. Why haven’t they been fixed?! That is absolutely unreasonable and the failure to address these issues is very telling of the priorities of the people behind it. My google docs app isn’t terrible, just not as customizable as this one, but the ease of use of google docs puts it above Notebook. Even the default apple notes app is better than this because it doesn’t have these issues. UI is so important, but it’s not a priority to these developers. Fix this problem and this will be my number one notes app hands down, and I’d actually recommend it to others.

by Lostsound2018

So I had a set of important notes that I typed out. A day later, I decided to add another set of notes to the same this app that the aforementioned notes were in. This this app only had these two notes. Halfway through writing the second note, I decided to take a break and closed the second note. I clicked back to return to the homescreen where I could see all my notes and voila, that whole this app was missing.

I checked through the trash can to see if I had accidentally deleted it and the notes didn’t show up. I even dug through Notebook ’s files on my laptop in the application support section and couldn’t find my notes to any avail. At this point, I was extremely frustrated and worried that my other notes would go missing. I decided to give Zoho notes another chance and retyped up both notes again and carefully closed my this app once again and returned to the home page to see an overview of my notebooks. AND MY NOTES WERE MISSING AGAIN. I checked through the source files again and could not find them.

I’m really angry and disappointed in Notebook because it had such good prospects and user design, but if my notes are just going to suddenly go missing, I can’t rely on Notebook. I’ve decided to migrate to Evernote instead.

by SooFabulous

I’ve been using Notebook for nearly a year, and overall it’s pretty good. It supports a bunch of different activities well, and it only takes 5ish seconds to load. However, I don’t think I would want to recommend it to anyone because of how badly it handles text.

For example, if you have a text note that is longer than about 250 lines, attempting to select text scrolls up or down at about 40 lines per second, making it impossible to copy/paste/italicize/etc. If you try to access Notebook while talking to someone on the phone, nearly every UI element starts floating and becomes unusable. If you title any of your notes longer than 11 characters, it cuts off the rest. If you go to another app and come back to it, it removes all spaces in your current line and the cursor is placed to the start of the line. If the line above your current line is italicized, and you try to type anything before the first character on your current line, it will be italicized too despite being on a new line.

These have been the bugs that I have experienced most often, and they are incredibly frustrating. Unless they are fixed, I’m just going to use the regular notes app, as it actually handles text correctly.

by Deucalion1010

I’ll start off by saying I have been a long time Evernote user. I saw that Zoho had built a tool to migrate all of your Evernote notes into their this app and I thought wow that’s awesome. I use other Zoho products and love them. So I went ahead and did it. I then tried to use zoho this app instead of Evernote. Just couldn’t do it. You can’t intelligibly sort the notes very well. You have to go to the settings dialog to globally sort things which is incredibly frustrating. Filtering is non existent. The biggest problem for me was the emphasis on tile view (when looking at a this app) and making things these giant cards. In Evernote I have several view options for listing my notes and my personal favorite is the title, a couple lines of the body and an icon for an attachment to the right. This small list item card tells me a ton about the note. It might have been the migration from Evernote to Zoho notebooks that messed things up, but the only way I can find my notes in Zoho is to search. The note cards don’t have any description on them, only a blown up icon picture and the name of the attachment. Not useful. The last thing that I use in Evernote extensively is email to note. This is not in Zoho this app and you have to use Zapier to make it work. Tried that and it is very clunky and doesn’t include any attachments.

In the end, I think Notebook is okay for simple notes, but heavy users should think twice. And coming from Evernote you will be limited.

by RockNRoll4EV3R

Notebook is everything I was looking for, and free!? Amazing. Superior to all other free this app apps and probably on par with paid apps. But I have a huge issue. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks and finally understand how everything works, which is why I’m so disappointed that my notes have disappeared. Half my notes, all from the past week, are gone. I’ve also been having this glitch where my pen will suddenly start...erasing? Disappearing? But you can still see it writing but it won’t stay. Then I have to exit the note or even Notebook altogether. It happens quite often sometimes. And I’ve checked my trash: not there. My notes I deleted from the week before? They’re there but I can’t find half my notes. It’s stressing me out because a few were very important and my professors don’t post their notes online. None of my notebooks have disappeared though, but even going through my whole collection of notes there’s nothing.

by Tn6278

I downloaded Notebook in substitution to Goodnotes as I didn’t want to spend money. It works very well and made me more productive in class and in taking notes. Not only are there notebooks, it also supplies checklists, notecards, etc.

However, I have several major issues with this: sometimes parts of my writing would just disappear while using the drawing function in my notebooks. It’s frustrating and I lose a lot of information. Another thing is the scrolling design. Whenever I zoom in to write and zoom back out, writing might get cropped and disappear. There’s a very limited amount of space you can write in, and I would love if you gave an extended scrolling function. I also noticed that swiping with your finger erases writing. This would be a useful feature, but whenever I’m moving around the paper by pinching to zoom, I accidentally erase words. Furthermore, it sometimes wipes out large areas of writing randomly after I fix a small detail in the same area.

Another thing I would love to see in Notebook is more tools in the drawing function. Although I believe that notetaking apps are rather good with limited tools to keep the same feel, some tools such as a lasso tool or a fill bucket may make the process much easier.

In summary, Notebook has a lot of potential but is still running on a lot of issues. I look forward to it being upgraded soon. Thanks.

by Grinch_girl

I’ve been using Notebook for notes for college and it’s pretty great except for all the bugs. Sometimes half of what I’ve written will disappear and I have to rewrite it (this often happens more than once and I write it again and again), it will make the screen freeze, but the biggest problem arose today when suddenly it started crashing, I cannot open Notebook because a second later it crashes, making it unusable. I’ve tried updating Notebook , updating my iPad, restarted my iPad like 5 times, I even took Notebook off and redownloaded it, and nothing has worked. The weird thing is that I can open Notebook fine on my phone to read notes, but I’m not able to hand write stuff that way. I didn’t want to delete Notebook in case I lost everything. Please fix this ASAP, I really need to have this work for my classes.

Edit: I have been trying to move all my notes over to another app via my phone and not even that will work. It says that it was exported but the only thing that appears is the text description I put. There are also notes where the contents won't load.... Notebook is starting to reach the end of my patience

by Mr. Mustachio🍓🍩🍪

I started using Notebook because I was looking for an alternative to the Apple Notes app, and I was intrigued by the idea of separating every note into categorized notebooks. That is the best part about Notebook: the notebooks. It’s a game changer to know exactly where to find the note you’re looking for. The notes themselves are also appealing; they show up like little post-it notes and it’s fun to watch them accumulate within notebooks. However, Notebook lacks the ability to add a picture within a note. A picture can be added as its own note, but it can’t be added within a note. This can be frustrating at times. This is minor, but you also cannot edit part of a note title and you must delete the whole thing if you want to fix a typo. Overall though, this is a great app and is much more friendly and interesting to use than the standard notes app.

by Anickny

Hey, I love your app and how secure it is on the back end. It’s not zero knowledge but it is very encrypted both at rest and in transit! And you CAN get a password reset should you ever need one! And it has 2 factor authentication. I use it every day for taking well, notes :)

The only bug I see that’s really kind of annoying is, on the mobile iPhone app, is when you’re typing on your keyboard and taking notes, the words/punctuation sometimes go off the screen on the right side, they don’t automatically go down a row... it’s very annoying when half of my word is out of my field of view but it’s still there when I hit enter. I find myself constantly hitting enter just so I can see and read the words. It even happens for punctuation, the period or comma will be out of my view but still there when I swipe over to read it.

Please correct this so it ALL stays on the field of view. Thank you!!

by Itmademerateit105

I’ve used many apps for note-taking, and though it is hard to go wrong, Notebook excels in its functionality, organizational options, & variety of note types. My favorite part is being able to put every note into its own this app, instead of needing to find notes with hashtags or scrolling. I gave Notebook 4/5 stars because I wish the setting on the notebooks were easier to adjust. I currently have my this app set up in a way that isn’t allowing me to re-order my notes, and I cannot find the setting option to change it back so that I can drag-and-drop the notes. That being said, I appreciate that any issue I have had so far with Notebook is resolvable and not one that hinders the ability to use it with ease & effectiveness. If you, like me, write everything down — prayers, reminders, gift ideas, upcoming events, reading notes, sermon notes, daily task lists, etc., then Notebook is for you.

by Sheazie

I couldn't go any further without taking the time to review Notebook. When I initially downloaded it, I was drawn to the “post-it note” potential of it and needed a simple way of reminding and organizing myself of some things. Much to my surprise, the various possibilities of Notebook unveil the more I use it!

I am in the midst of a serious personal healing journey, and the this app is meeting more needs of documenting my experiences than I could have ever dreamed of! I can't say enough what a godsend it is! There are so many practical, flexible options to recording and organizing information. It's become much more than Notebooks to me, I'm transforming it into a highly experiential journal with various modes of storytelling!

Much respect to the Developer(s) - I am grateful for Notebook. Thank you

by DawsonShawMusic

I’m in a band and as we kept booking more and more shows and hiring other bands to be on the bill with us it became more and more difficult to keep track of everything. Notebook allowed me to create a folder for just the band’s schedule (you can have an unlimited number of folders) then within that folder I could create each of our band’s show dates as their own folder and then inside of those I was able to add all the details for each show including the posters. Plus you can have everything a different color which just helps separate and categorize things even better. Notebook is perfect for musicians, booking agents, talent buyers and anyone with a full plate of scheduling that requires more than just a calendar. I love it. Also it’s totally free, you don’t have to do renewed payments or anything, just a great app!

by Vicky424

I've only had an iPhone for a little while but this is one of the best apps I've tried. I'm still finding out all the useful ways I can use it. I have everything from a grocery check list to all the crazy number of user names and passwords for the internet. I've started saving my favorite recipes and scanning my receipts as well. Every category getting its own this app. Changing the covers to my own photos makes finding the right this app quick and it's easy to use. It's a great little organization app. It's more than a basic check list or reminder list like I have used before but even for a beginner, with a little playing around and reading the tips I've found it to do more without having to spend a great deal of time figuring out how it works. You can import your own images for book covers but it would be great if more covers were already in Notebook for basic categories such as groceries, to do list or journals, just typical things that people are likely to want to create a this app for. The more I use it the more I find it useful to have.

by Rmsrss

These is like the best writing app out there! There are so many ways just to make the note you. You can be messy or organized whatever you like. I use it to write in like every way stories or journal and a lot of other stuff. You can draw and write. Chose your own cover. One of the best things is that there is a passcode.

Some ideas.

1 it’s just a small bug. When your passcode pops up about five or three seconds to late. Please fix that course what if someone tapped it and saw the names of your note books.

2 Can you please make some new this app covers.

3 Can you make it to where you can write and doodle by each other. I know you can draw and write but I would like to put a small picture by a curtain sentence or something.

4 I can’t sink to Facebook please fix that.
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by Donut_Buddy

Notebook is really efficient. I really enjoy how you can change the cover of the notebooks, and even upload a picture, for free. Any other app would charge for that. I also like how you can put a lock on a this app, so you can have a diary/journal. I do wish, however, that you could have more than one default note color, or even upload a picture for that, too. There should also be patterns for the home screen, and maybe notes, too. This is not a necessary upgrade, but it would be nice. And we should also be able to add videos to our notes, and also GIFs. That would be great. I would put Meet the Robinsons GIFs all the time:). And maybe more font options, maybe different ones for different notes. I’m sorry if I have too many requests, I’m really just making these up as I go. Thank you for making this beautiful app; I have tried so many other ones; none prevailed:). Notebook is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious;).

by Skye Moon

I’ve been using Notebook for over two years and have only just begun exploring all of the options available. Notebook has all of the basics you need from a notes app while adding what would normally be “pro” features on any other app. There are no hidden in-app upgrades. You get all the features from the start. As someone who is constantly trying new apps to jot down all types of notes, I prefer this one every time. I have stopped using iPhone apps like Notes, Reminders, and audio recording because this app does all of this in one app and does it better. It also integrates across all my devices; it works well on my iPad 6th gen with Apple Pencil and iPhone, as well as on my Mac with both the downloaded program and the “web clipper” (which is the newest aspect of Notebook that I have quickly integrated into my online browsing). I am not one to give five stars easily, but this is an exceptional free app with all the capabilities of a paid one.

by Sam Nope

The features are incredible and it is so easy to organize my notes, prose, poetry, recipes, whatever it is I need to save. Notebook is a million times better than Evernote, which is bloated and ugly and inefficient. I used Evernote for a year and all the while it was nothing but a hassle. Also, Evernote was painfully slow. The features of Notebook, however, are very intuitive and efficient. I love that you can group notes together by pinching them together *or* by doing a long press. If you want to ungroup them, but just pinch them apart and voila, out of the group. I could go on and on about the features of Notebook but there are so many cool and *useful* features that I don't have the time or space to do so. It is free! I would happily pay top dollar for Notebook but it's FREE. Give it a try, and if you're currently using Evernote and decide you like Notebook better (you will), there's an option to import all of your Evernote stuff. Definitely well worth it to give Notebook a try.

by Babytiger2221

I love Notebook. It’s really user friendly and I replaced it with my Apple notes app which I really liked already. If you just want to sketch a drawing this is great. Definitely don’t use this if you’re a digital artist. However I have one problem. I have a Siri shortcut that creates a note for me, but when I exit that note, it doesn’t show me my notebooks, it just shows me a blank screen. So then I have to close Notebook out and then jump back in and it loads and FINALLY I can see my notebooks again. I think this is a great app for college students for taking notes. If you’re willing to pay for an app, I recommend notability. I love Notebook if you’re coming from apple notes. Did I mention that it has a dark mode! So everything about Notebook is great besides the Siri shortcut app problem. I think this is a great app for college students, people coming from apple notes, or people who use digital shopping lists. And one more thing, I think the iPhone version is a little harder to use, but the XS max or any iPad version is easier to use.

by Opalescent_sky

Notebook is one of the best note-taking apps because of the many features it has. I only have a few suggestions for improvement in these areas:

(1) I want to import an image from my gallery but I can only do that by picking the “Take photo” option. I don’t want to take a photo because I’m working with diagrams for school. It bothers me that Notebook keeps asking for permission to access my camera when I just want to go to the gallery. There should be a separate button that takes me directly to the gallery.

(2) I wish tagging was possible to improve organization of notes. I’d like to add tags to notes and be able to search for those tags through the search bar, just as I can for keywords in the notes. This type of categorization would help me a lot to organize my thinking, and find what I’m looking for more easily. Personalized tags are a great tool for making sense of scattered notes, so I really hope this feature will be considered.

by :PxD:)•,•

Sorry about the title, but that was my thought process!! Anyways. Where to start? Ok, I know.

1. May we talk about how professionally unprofessional it is?
>That may sound like an insult, but it’s a compliment from me. It’s really professional looking, and it is. But it’s not TOO professional, so it wouldn’t seem weird to me to write about unicorns in it.
2. Nice features!
>I like how you can have different types of notes. It’s so cool. Also the different notebooks! Note groups are cool too, notebooks within notebooks. The covers are really cute!
3. Very clean.
>Nice formatting, and nothing is messy with it, really.
4. Suggestions or Teensy Let-Downs
>Can you please make more covers? Most of them just aren’t.. me.
>Can you make a way for the background to be like this app paper? That would be funny.
>There should be a way to interchange your notes. I know you can put a drawing into text, but, maybe I want to put a sound note with a drawing, or a checklist with text.
>Right when you enter, your thing with your notes pops up, for like 5 seconds before your passcode pops up.
5. Passcode
>I love the passcode! Thank you so so much for it!

~Also, I’ve been looking at frillions and cadrabillions of writing apps, but none of them have been ‘cute’. This, you can make it cute. Because, I don’t want to write a story about a unicorn 🦄 in a this app app that looks like it was made for business purposes.~

by KB957

Found this featured in Notebook Store about 2 weeks ago. I’ve been looking for a good ‘fit’ for a note taking app for 5+ years now and I thought this could be “The One.” After submitting a ticket about the issue of iPad (pro) users not being able to upload their own this app cover images a few days after ‘the big update,’ and getting a monotonous reply (essentially a ‘bare with us we’ll release an update to fix the bugs’), I’m starting to get impatient waiting and may move on to the next note app to try. I then come here and read other people’s suggestions & reviews and am even more dissatisfied...and then my thought process goes like this...”Yes! Font Selections!, Colors!...oh boy a lot of people have lost their stuff...customer service is either absent, non-coherent, or careless in their replies to these poor users. Yes, maybe I should go ahead to the next notes app on my list to try.”

by Customer909

Notebook is a simple app that is very easy to use. I don’t need a complicated app. All I want is an app where I can make simple lists and have some basic formatting options. Notebook fills that need. I love it!

My only complaint is that I don’t need to see 5 lines of data within each note when viewing a this app at the high level. It would be nice if the user could define how much content is visible at that level. Personally all I need to see is the title of the note. By showing multiple lines, you have to scroll down a lot more to find the note you’re looking for. But I still love Notebook.

I’d like to see an undo option. I’ve accidentally deleted content (in another note app) and there was no recovery. Adding this would put Notebook above many others.

by Wthsmile

been using this app for about three years and I needed to start a journal for personal reasons and I was looking for a journal app somewhere to go do what I needed to do I downloaded numerous apps to try them and I come to find out that this app was the best app to use...just make a new this app in mark it my journal and make entries every day ....add pictures etc. it’s the best app and like I said I’ve been using it for three years and Will continue using it ...the only bad thing ....about a year and a half ago I paid for the advance subscription and when my phone died it never came back so I’m little weary of paying the money again ....because when I did it last time, it really didn’t make no difference ...it is the same as the free one

by Alexa4165

I don’t usually write reviews for apps. Not because I’m lazy though I am but because mom always said if you can’t say something good; don’t say anything at all. I have downloaded and/or paid for >1000 apps. So it’s safe to say that when it comes to productivity/to do apps, I’m the champ. And Notebook is my prize. It’s simple, straightforward, and conducive to the matter of organization. Imagine that. It doesn’t shove me into a deep dark pit of frustration. It doesn’t bore me to tears. It doesn’t give me a migraine or produce bouts of anxiety from the idea of opening it. Like organizing a spice rack, it makes life simpler because it does what a productivity app is supposed to do. And the random display of thought-provoking quotes and eye-catching art elevates Notebook, transporting me to a Parisian café (not Au bon pain). Good job.

by A God Send

This is an update to a previous post. I deleted the original as I believe the problem I was having is with my phone’s 3D Touch. Your help with the problem I was having with Notebook helped me realize that it’s the problem I have been having with my home screen, and other apps as well. Though your suggestion of changing the pressure sensitivity didn’t work, turning 3D off did and not just for your app, but the others. So, thank you for your help. I have changed my stars to 5. this app appears to be a quality app with good customer service which is something difficult to find anymore. So far, I like the way Notebook is set up. I’m looking forward to trying it out more now that I can use it properly.