The Best Apps For Note Taking

Posted: August 29, 2014

Note taking is usually tedious. Add in a speaker talking at super sonic speed, and it can be almost impossible to get legible notes. Thanks to the smart phones and tablets, note taking has never been easier.

Note taking is usually tedious. Add in a speaker talking at super sonic speed, and it can be almost impossible to get legible notes. Thanks to the smart phones and tablets, note taking has never been easier.

Joel Mathis, contributor to Tech Hive, shares the best apps for note taking.

The best apps for taking notes

Man, it’s a great time to be a note-taker.

For a couple of decades—first as a student, then as a professional journalist—I filled notebook after notebook with notes, covering classes, press conferences, interviews, and more. When I was done, I’d have to find someplace to store them until (most likely) I’d throw them out. The notes I did keep? Useless. My on-the-fly handwriting is a horrible thing.

The result: A lot of personal and professional history gone to waste.

The process got better when laptop adoption became widespread and I could start typing my notes in real time as a speech or lecture was being delivered. It improved yet again when Google Docs came along, and storage ceased to be a worry.

Mobile devices, though, transformed everything. The productivity charts in the app stores are awash in great note-taking apps, ranging from the complicated—Evernote would let you describe every part of your life with enough detail to satisfy three of the five senses—to the useful-but-relatively-one-dimensional (think of the naive Notes app on iOS).

Read the entire article The Best Apps for Taking Notes on Tech Hive.