APP of the WEEK
LOTS of people like to take written notes, lots of people like to make sketch-based notes and lots of people like to take audio notes.
This app does all three of those things, so if nothing else, will allow you to shave a couple of icons off your home screen.
Of course, it is about much more than that – it’s about having lots of options with which to capture your own ideas as you have them, and those of others at talks, tutorials and lectures. If I’d had Noted when I was a student, I might have got a better degree.
It’s organised very simply with a list of notebooks, to which you can add notes which can feature audio recordings, text, images, and drawings (Apple Pencil is supported).
Every entry is time-tagged to the audio recording, so as you make text notes while recording a talk, you can easily find the section of audio the text note relates to. You can even manually time-tag sections of your audio notes if you want to mark them as a key moment.
There is excellent noise reduction for premium subscribers, who can also make unlimited notes (free accounts are limited to five), and export notes as PDFs.
As if all that wasn’t enough, there are both Apple Watch (for quick on-the-go recording) and Mac apps that sync with the iOS version, and auto transcription of recorded notes is in the works.
Subscribers pay £9.99 for a whole year of the premium tier, or 99p month.