Thursday, September 02, 2010

Notes n More


Create rich formatted notes, record voice memos, draw with your finger or stylus, include pictures & videos, save web pages as PDFs and even do tasks all in one app.

Organize your vacation trip, project, conference or event visits or any other activity into logical collections of notes and tasks

iCloud support lets you synchronize the notes across your iDevices - iPad, iPhone, iPod.

Features - Tasks | Rich Notes | Voice Memos | Scribbles | Internet Notes | Recycle Bin | Search

Download from App Store - [Notes n More is not available anymore]



Features
  • Create task lists organized by Date and Collections.
  • Easily schedule overdue tasks for today, tomorrow or any other day.
  • Select text from Notes and create Tasks from them
The following demonstration shows the key task management features of the app -




Notes
  • Format text - Bold, Italics, Underline, Strikethrough
  • List Support - Numbered and Unnumbered including indented lists
  • Insert pictures into notes (current iPad only)
  • Create multiple tasks from a note
This video provides a short demonstration of the Rich Notes feature - 



Voice Memos
  • Record or play voice memos simultaneously while taking notes. 
  • Insert time stamps in your notes to remind you of the location in the voice memo where you took notes.

Scribbles
  • Create a simple sketch, design or write something with your finger. 
  • Draw on a plain background or annotate over an existing image or picture. 
  • Multiple backgrounds, brush sizes and brush colors are supported.

Internet Notes
Great for just saving your online receipts, doing research, collecting articles you liked, .... 
  • Save files (PDFs, Office, ...) from the web in the app. 
  • You can also convert a web page to PDF and save it. 
  • Take a screenshot of a portion of web page with one-click, save it and attach notes to it.

Click Pictures and Record Videos
  • Click pictures and videos and organize them along with the rest of your notes. 
  • Attach notes to any picture or video that you record.

Collections
Logically organize and collect all your various note types together in collections. No need to jump across apps for various note types - video, text, pictures,...

More Features
  • FavoritesYou can bookmark notes and access them instantly from the Favorites view
  • Recycle BinDon't ever regret deleting a note. The Recycle Bin collects all your notes or entire collections allowing you to immediately restore items or permanently delete them.
  • Customizable UIChoose from multiple themes, fonts, font sizes, font colors and background paper to customize the app and make it truly yours.
  • SearchFull-text search through all your notes
  • EmailIndividual notes can be emailed. When emailing, multimedia items (e.g. voice memos, videos, files,...) are attached to the email.

Download
App Store - http://bit.ly/notes_n_more


Price
The app is completely Free to download and use as of version 1.7.7.

NOTE: There used to be in-app purchases prior to this version, which is what you will see in the app store. However, if you download the latest version, it is completely free. Overtime, as users upgrade from prior versions, the in-app will be removed.

Contact Email
For questions or issues feel free to email me at -
aashish.notes.improv At gmail DOT com

75 comments:

老頭頭 said...

Dear Sir,

I got the mesage of 'error loading Tags' when I export notes N More data from my iPad to my Macbook Pro.
I did it twice following the document you provided on your web.
I attached the screen capture file.(http://img.skitch.com/20101001-1p4ngjnwjyahc3aks6j784n8yr.jpg)

Please tell me how to solve this problem, Thank you!

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Roger,

The Cloud Tags feature is only if you enabled the Cloud Store. You can safely ignore the error.


In your case you are looking to export all Notes from the iPad to your Macbook Pro. The complete documentation for desktop export is here - http://bit.ly/ckXBpL. Follow the steps in this document and let me know if you run into any issues .

Thanks,
Aashish

老頭頭 said...

Dear Sir,

I try again as your documentation indicated, but I still cannot sync my notes form ipad to MBP.
You can check the following screen captures:
STEP 1:on my MBP
http://img.skitch.com/20101008-gccwh51xh5e1kft41bf4tyrpf4.jpg

STEP 2:on my ipad
http://img.skitch.com/20101008-x6w79wr4dwhb7twu6k5ejc1k85.jpg

STEP 3: on my MBP again but notthing happen!
http://img.skitch.com/20101008-mgh8mfpnjeu9njsrb9hbyab9hm.jpg

I hope that you can help me!

Thank you!

Martin said...

I use Notes N All for business. I mainly use the audio / Notes function.

The first time tonight I have exported the audio files to Notes n All on the mac from the Ipad.

after a few attempts I was able to see the audio file in the NnA window. Unfortunately there didn't appear to be a "play mode" to hear the audio file (work related meetings)

After double selecting the audio file after a number of minutes Itunes opened.

I was able to see the audio file within window.

The audio file started to play as expected (along with an import function operating in the background)

Unfortunalty although I was able to listen to the audio file i was not able to controlItunes. For some reason the audio file sent the mac into beachball mode.

I had to manually shut down the mac.

Following day on Tube, I launch Itunes on the Ipad (following desktop sinc earlier) Itunes on the Ipad nw crashes seconds after launch.

I cannot locate the problem even after unchecking the troublesome audio file from the mac.

I am now on the lookout for a patch or move to another app.

regards

martin

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Roger,

That is a little odd.

Can you confirm that both your iPad and Desktop are on the same network?

Can you try clicking on 'Export All' - that will restart the full export?

Also, if you want to send screenshots, you can also send them to the app support email - aashish.notes.improv@gmail.com

Thanks,
Aashish

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Martin,

Sorry that you are having all these issues.

Actually, the Desktop app does not play or display anything. It basically "hands-off" to the OS the file to be opened and the OS then chooses the correct program to open the file.

In this case, the correct program happens to be iTunes. Based on what you are describing it looks like iTunes might be trying to first copy the file to its local database and then play it. In addition, due to the way iTunes works, it tries to 'encode' every file to its format - AAC / MP3.

Are your recordings quite large? iTunes might be choking doing the above - copy + encode.

Can you tell me how long (length of time) are your recordings? I will try to reproduce the issue and see if there is a solution around this issue - maybe have the Desktop app itself play the file instead of handing off to iTunes.

Thanks,
Aashish

Martin said...

Hi Aashish,

I think your on the right track - the file size is large. Most of the meetings are in the duration of 3 - 4 hours. I'm not sure of the file size, but will take a look to see.

I love the app, and have many colleagues that want it on their Ipad due to the audio and notes function.

Kind regards

Martin

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Martin,

An audio note of that time length would result in a very large file. Don't worry about finding the file size. I will look into this further by reproducing a note of that size.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
Aashish

Anonymous said...

Add the ability to download and upload from dropbox and I'm sold.

Can this app add notes to multipage pdfs?

Jlo said...

Hi Aashish

I have just purchased your Notes n more app, but am unable to delete a scribble or transfer it to the recycle bin. Could you please advise me how to do this?

Many thanks

Aashish Patil said...

Hi JLo,

To delete something, swipe your finger across the item and the delete button will become visible.

Thanks,
Aashish

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Anonymous -
Thanks for the feedback regarding Dropbox. Have you taken a look at the Cloud storage support that the app has? That might be what you are looking for.

Not sure I understand the question regarding multipage PDFs. The App can generate PDFs from Internet (Web) pages i.e. save web pages as PDF. Is that what you are looking for?

Thanks,
Aashish

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Martin,

To follow up on the playing of large voice memos. I have something working and will post a patch next weekend after some more testing.

Thanks,
Aashish

Unknown said...

So cloud storage only works with synapticatt??? Not drop box

Aashish Patil said...

mhonard,

That is correct - only with ATT Synaptics

Thanks,
Aashish

Unknown said...

Hi Aashish.
So far the app is ok as I am trying to find a 1 app for all notes? Are you planning to add a zoom option in the scribble section - I find it hard to write inside drawing boxes.
Regards
Stuart

Unknown said...

Hi! I love this app, but the only problem is that the cloud storage with att is not free. that's why you should definitely add the dropbox sync feature!

Unknown said...

Hi! I love this app, but the only problem is that the cloud storage with att is not free. that's why you should definitely add the dropbox sync feature!

Unknown said...

Hello! I installed your app. One question though. If I select on "Calendar" a future date, and add a task for that date, because it's a task to be done that day, and that day only, why does the task also adds on todays date? As if I also have to do that task today? And if I erase that automatic task on today's date, it also disappears for the date I lned the task to be done...

I've also tried to put the task on today's date, and then on the calendar option that appears below, I select a future date, and same thing happens.

Matteo said...

Hey, so I'm a little confused here. How do we go about paying you separately for the desktop app? There does not seem to be any formal avenue of purchasing the desktop companion and yet the zip file I downloaded was password protected. What is the deal? I already paid for your app and I'd like to be able to actually use it.

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Matthew,

That is odd.

The desktop app is free.

Which zip file is prompting you for a password? None of them are locked zip files.

Thanks,
Aashish

Unknown said...

Hi,
I have just downloaded this and think that it is excellent. 2 requests. Could you add 2 columns in open tasks list 1 with the to do by date, and the second with the collection name that the note is associated with?

Would we also be able to sort by those 2?

Unknown said...

When I use the scribble notepad on a day different from today, the result is correctly saved in the day where I wanted to be saved in, but also in today !!!! So I have the same note saved in two different days

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Stefano,

The Calendar view shows all items created or modified on a particular data. Thus, the item shows on two dates - one on which it was created and another on which it was last modified.

Aashish

Petrovitch2 said...

Hi Aashish,
I am going to buy, so please teach me - will I be able to sync my old notes from/to my dropbox cloud directly? Google docs at least?

Realy couldn't find this, the info of sync feature look very dim here.
Thanks in advance.

Solo said...

Hi Aashish,
I had a hard disk crash recently and lost data. Thankfully, the notes were still on the iPod so I was able to re-upload them. But would be best if I can back up from hard disk itself. Could you tell which files/folders I need to backup? There are plenty of folders and files with cryptic names in the desktop app. I use Windows Seven and iPod with iOS 4.1 at present.

P.S. Try modifying the comment template on your blog so dates are also shown with comments. Right now it just shows hh:mm, whether the comment is six months old or yesterday's!

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Solo,

There is a folder called "notesnmore-data" that exists in your user folder
Windows -
c:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\notesnmore-data

OSX
USER/notesnmore-data

You just need to backup this folder.

Thanks,
Aashish

Solo said...

Thanks for the prompt reply. In Windows Seven, I found it in C:\Users\USERNAME\notesnmore-data

One suggestion for future editions: try to enrich the desktop app a bit more. e.g. allowing multi-selection of notes and copying all of their text to clipboard; exporting selected text notes to a consolidated Doc or PDF file, and adding image handling in later iterations. Improving interactivity with existing productivity tools will really enhance usefulness.

Solo said...

P.S. Just noticed the dates with comments :)

Anonymous said...

When I try to upload to Mac Pro (using OS X Lion) I get a "Stream open error." It had worked in the past (with Snow Leopard). Is there an issue with Lion?

Anonymous said...

Oops - just noticed another user's post that reminded me that export uses WIFI, and NOT the data cable. I turned on WIFI on the iPhone, and the export worked properly (and VERY fast). Thanks!

Jerome said...

1) Favorite button is missing in last update, so you cannot see only favorites notes.

2) would be nice to add password protection to some notes.

3) would be nice to have option to open the application with notes page instead of tasks.
Thanks
Jerome

Anonymous said...

Hi Aashish
I recently purchased Notes N More app and I hadn’t had any problems before. But after I used several times, it won’t allow me to access to “Popular”, “Recycle Bin”, and “All.” Whenever I touch “Popular”, “Recycle Bin”, and “All,” it makes me to go back to home screen.
I really need audio files and notes, which I saved before.
Are there any ways to solve this problem?

Ben

songdri said...

Hi'.

When i tried to update the app, they said "this app is incompatible with this ipad (im using Ipad2)
So i deleted the app to download all again.

But it doesn't work suddenly!!

It gives me the same message when i click "download"

What should i do??

Aashish Patil said...

The latest version requires iOS5 and will not run on iOS 4.

Dandy Poindexter IIII said...

iOS 5 required?  Not cool! 

Isn't there any way you could support iOS 5 *and* 4? 

A lot of us are holding off on the new update until some of our other apps have iOS 5 versions available. 

By only supporting iOS 5, you're making me have to choose to continue to use your app and staying in iOS 4 to remain compatible with my other apps that haven't released iOS 5 updates yet, which I might add, FAR outnumber any apps that only work with v5 (so far only Notes N More and iMovie, two apps I guess I'll have to live without for the time being). 

I know iOS 5 is really great and I look forward to the upgrade, WHEN THE MAJORITY OF THE APPS THAT I USE SUPPORT IT, but I just can't take the risk of a lot of them not working. 

I don't think this is an unreasonable request... backwards compatibility is really important!!! Abandoning your legacy users is not a good move, so please restore iOS 4 support!

Thank You

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Dandy,

The latest version requires iOS 5 to enable Rich Notes. That really is the only major feature that would require you to update to the latest version of the app, which would anyway not work without ios5.

My suggestion is to stay on the older version of Notes N More and update when you move to iOS 5.

The amount of effort required to maintain backwards compatibility will be moot since by the time I get it out you and the majority of users would probably have updated to iOS 5.

Thanks for your understanding.

Aashish

Ed said...

A couple problems I found after update iOS 5
after I export notes from my iPhone I cannot get out of
the export screen and get back to recent activity screen.
On my iPad when I click on the uparrow to export notes it takes me to the last note I entered. In that window i I can edit the note but I cannot save it or leave the screen. If I click the cloud button at the bottom is returns the message cloud service is not configured, when you click ok you are back in the not. If I click on the calendar button at the bottom the program drops me out to the home screen of the iPad.

Leticia de Paiva Rothen Sato said...

HI
I hada justo bought the app but i'm having some prblemas, Everytime i click in the icons that appear on the corners of the page (sorry, i dont kwnow their use yet) it leaves to the home screen of the ipad. That's why i couldn't discover their use, because they are not functioning
is there a cause for this? I'm sad because i was counting on it.

thanks
Leticia

blogo said...

Hi,
I have just purchased your app, and it's very unstable.
I am using it on an iPad 2 running iOS5.0.1
It crashes when:
I try to email a note.
I try to open the calendar when viewing a note.
I click the FTP button from within a note

Aashish Patil said...

Hi,

An update has been submitted that fixes the various crashes reported.

Thanks,
Aashish

Aashish Patil said...

Update with the fixes for all crashes is now available.

Lavey said...

dont work with russian language ? i by u program. dont run in autoran

Our Business said...

I've been using this app on iPAD for months and I love it. Now I've got an iPhone and want to export some notes to it from the desktop. Is this not possible?
Brian

Joy C said...
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elschlomo said...

I just tried to export my notes from iPod Touch 4 running OS 5.1 to my Windows PC (first time) and I got the message on the iPod that it was an invalid URL (192.168.1.5). Now what?

theloveofthegame said...

Hello,
I'm trying to set up exporting for the first time and when I enter the IP address that the desktop gives me the iPad app tells me that it is an invalid URL.
Can you offer any help?
Thanks.
Dave

Devgiri said...

I have the same problem as Dave. When I try and export, it says that the URL is invalid.
Otherwise an excellent app!!
Girish

Unknown said...

Hello,
Really find your program very useful. An issue just developed, where I am unable to listen to any of my recent audio recordings. When I attempt to PLAY them, the program either freezes or kicks me out of the program completely. Audio function works fine in video....the issue only occurs when I attempt to listen to a newer recording. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Alfred

Unknown said...

Hello, love the program, use it for recording seminars while taking notes. A recent issue has cropped up, where I am unable to listen to any of my recent recordings. When attemp to PLAY the rogram either freezes or kicks me out of the completely.
The audio seems to work fine with the video recordings, as well as my older audio recordings. This issues seems to have developed sometime within the last month.
You assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Alfred -

A bug was introduced when iCloud support was added in the last version.

Voice memos not in iCloud cannot currently be played on the device. I've already submitted an update to Apple which fixes the issue.

In the meantime, you can use the desktop client to export the voice memos and play them on your desktop.

Thanks,
Aashish

Manni said...

Hi Aashish,

just downloaded NotesNMore on the New iPad (3) with iOS 5.1 and running in some trouble.

1) Trying to create a new Rich Note just results in a blank white page being unable to type in anything at all. Just nothing happens. This occurs with cloudbased and non cloud collections.

2) To scribble on a photo I tried to use Pick Image as background but no images are shown to pick from. Just a blue arrowlike bar appears on the top of the board.

How can I use these features? Where can I find a more detailed help file than the one in the app?

Thanks in advance.
-Manni

Anonymous said...

Hi Aashish,

I can confirm the findings of Manni that rich text notes don't work in IOS 5 and iPhone 4.

Further I love the option to mark text and create task. Can you when doing so, convert the text into a color or italics and add a checkbox in front corresponding with the checkbox in the central task overview?

Thanks for your support

Rgds
Johan

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Jomi -

What happens when you tap on the white region. For Rich Text, currently the keyboard does not automatically come up.

Thanks
Aashish

Anonymous said...

Hi Aashish

When starting a new rich text note, a blank rich text screen pop's up with at the upper left corner p/p is showing in a box a fraction of a second. Taping on the white screen does not bring the keyboard up, pasting text from another location is not possible either.

Best regards
Jomi

Gustavo Papasergio said...

Hi Aashish Théas popup Window in rich text in iOS 6 does not appear or it's showed for a fraction of seconds and next disappear.

I hace a new iPad with iOS 6.01

Tks.

Manni said...

Hi Aashish,

sorry for bothering you again.
I just installed the new update 1.7.4 from yesterday, November 23. Now Notes n More doesn't start up anymore. It shows the number of my open tasks in it's icon's upper right corner allright, but just flashes up briefly at startup and then terminates immediately. Restarted iPad but to no avail. Deleted and reinstalled Notes n More but didn't work either.

Have all my notes in iCloud. How can I (hopefully) retrieve them again?

Best Regards
-Manni

Manni said...

Hi Aashish,

now time is running out! To close the month of november for my business I got to have these notes! I relied on Notes n More and you let me down. There must be something you can do. Can I download the older version somewhere? That would help at least. I just need these notes immediately!

Please reply asap!

Regards
-Manni

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Manni -

Apologize for the delay - been out on a long vacation.

I tried the scenario you showed from a few devices and am not able to reproduce it. However, the app does seem to hang at times when accessing iCloud. That is what might be going on with you.

A quick question - after reinstalling the app, have reenabled iCloud?

Am looking into it and hopefully that will atleast let you reload the content from iCloud.

Thanks,
Aashish

Manni said...

Hi Aashish,

thx for your reply. iCloud can't be enabled because the App doesn't remain open after being startet. It just flashes up half a second and then quits. Tried it several times frequently but to no avail.

Can't you just send me the link to version 1.7.3 to get my pressious information I need?
What else could we do?

Regards
-Manni

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Manni -

I've just submitted an updated version to Apple that fixes this issue.

The issue is due to iOS 5. Apple required us to implement certain things for iOS 6, which unfortunately broke the app on iOS 5.

Are you able to wait a week for Apple to review and publish the new version or do you need something immediately?

Thanks,
Aashish

Manni said...

Hi Aashish,

ok, I understand. One week to wait is far too long for me. I have notes I need immediately to get on with my work. If you could provide me with something to retrieve my notes from iCloud I would really appreciate it . What do you have in mind?

Well, that teaches to backup more often on different media types!

Thanks in advance.
-Manni

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Manni

Can you send me a blank email from your iPad - aashish.notes.improv at gmail.com

Thanks
Aashish

Anonymous said...

Hello Aashish,

I have a rather interesting issue. I cannot seem to find the icon or have the option to delete created notes.

How do you delete a note ?

Aashish Patil said...

Swipe your finger across an item and the Delete button will show up

Unknown said...

Hy aashish, compliments for the app, i think it is one of the best of the category, for this reason i bought the unblocked version, but i have a huge problem: i can't create elements of kind rich text, don't appears the keybord and then i can't write anything, i use an ipad3 with os 6.01, could you help me. sergio.miedico@gmail.com

Yesterbabe said...

Hi Aashish,

I have Use iCloud set to On. All my folders show they are on the cloud, but when I login to icloud.com with my appleID, i do not see Notes & More.

Please can you clarify?
Thanks.

Yesterbabe said...

Hello Aashish,

What is happening about my issue with
Notes & More not being backup to icloud?

Aashish Patil said...

Hi Yesterbabe -

The way iCloud works is that an apps data (e.g. Notes n More) can only be accessed from the app.

The web based iCloud (iCloud.com) is only used by Apple and they don't provide us facilities to create web applications. Thus, only Apple apps are available through iCloud.com

Thus, although your data is getting backed up / written to iCloud it won't be accessible from iCloud.com. You can access it from Notes n More version of iPad, iPhone, iPod

Hope that helps.

Are you using Mac or Windows?

Aashish

Yesterbabe said...

Hi Aashish,

Thanks for your reply as per icloud integration.

I am using windows and Notes & More on ipad.

Are you saying i should just trust it is been backed up to icloud even though I do not have a proof?

How do I see what has been backup via and Notes & More on ipad. I cannot seem to find any info on this on the help.
thanks.

Unknown said...

Hello,

I am writing about the the Notes n More app that I recently put on my iPad. I was interviewing candidates for a job and recording the interviews. A few days ago I got a message saying I need to purchase the app. It will not allow me to get to the interviews.

I am fine with purchasing the app, but I want to make sure that when I do, the interviews will still be there.

Do you know if this will be the case? If not, is there a way to get to the interviews?

Thank You,
Megan

Juan said...

Please, where's the desktop app and his docs:?
By other side great notes app

Anonymous said...

Hi Aashish,

Please help urgently. I have been using Note n More for 2 years extensively. I have a lot of my official work on Notes n More. I mistakenly reset my ipad to factory setting a few minutes ago.
How do I get the Notes n More restored from icloud.

Please help.

Aashish Patil said...

FYI -
Yesterbabe's issue has been resolved.

If iCloud had been enabled, then all you need to do is install Notes n More and enable it upon install.

The app will pull data from iCloud. Depending on amount of data, this could take time. Leave the app running for some time to load all the notes.

Unknown said...

Hello Aashish,

I've downloaded all the new updates for my MBP, Iphone 4, your app and enabled iCloud. Can I now reach the notes from my MBP? And also, when I now write a new note I cannot store it in a collection. I tried disabling iCloud, but it doesn't work.

Can you help?

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