APPS SPECIAL... 6 apps to help you remember and write everything

6 apps to help you remember and write everything





The note-taking apps are designed to help you stay productive, and keep everything you wish to remember at your fingertips

We are living in an information age.

So it's natural that you might need some apps to help you remember everything. The good news is that improvements around computing hardware have made note-taking apps even more practical and useful in recent years. Whether you are looking for an app that's suitable for sharing information, storing research or one that offers a pleasant writing platform, here are the best of the lot:

Evernote (free)

No list of good note-taking apps is complete without Ever note, which is one of the oldest and fully-featured. Evernote lets you create simple as well as complex workflows using a combination of notebooks, notes and tags to keep everything organised. One of its best features for gathering research is the web clipper extension, which lets you save entire webpages -including text, images and PDFs -with a single click.

OneNote (free)

Like Ever note, OneNote lets you sync notes across va rious devices. While a free version is available on the Mac, the app is particularly useful on Windows 10-powered hybrid devices due to the interface's close resembling of an actual notepad. It lets you scribble on ruled pages with your device's stylus, and you can position text boxes, images and tables anywhere on the page.

Ulysses ($39.99 per year)

Ulysses is one of the polished notet a k i n g ap p s o n Apple's computing platform. Notes are written and stored in the app's Markdown style, which allows for inventive (and colourful) use of headings. Images can be embedded in the form of links within documents; rather than displaying them in the body text.

Google Keep (free)

Google Keep is one of the simplest note -taking apps out there, both visually and how it operates. Think of Keep as your place for storing digital post-it notes. Notes can be used as labels, pinned to the top, given a colour, paired with reminders and collaborated on in real time.It's minimal compared to other writing apps, which either works for or against it depending on your viewpoint.

Atom (free)

Atom is primarily an app used for coding, but its sheer range of customisation options means that you can mould it into a useful text editor too. Because it's based on common web standards, you can hack its CSS stylesheet to create just about any visual theme you can think of. Atom is far from perfect as a text editor due to its lack of one or two standard features, such as an automatic grammar changer. But it's one of the most interesting and capable apps when in the right hands.

Bear (free trial)

A relative newcomer to the note-taking app scene, Bear lies somewhere between Evernote and Ulysses, allowing you to create notes and sync them across various Apple devices through its subscriptionbased cloud service (a free trial is available too). Using a Slacklike three-pane interface, you can arrange notes by applying hashtags, which allows a subfolder style system. Bear uses rich Markdown for editing, and is easy on the eye.

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