The Jack-of-all-trades note taker

• Category: Productivity
• Developer: Sophiacom
• Version: 1.0.2
• Cost: Free
• For: iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch
• Download URL

Some type of apps are available in bunches; surprisingly, the metronome is one of them.  The other one, much less surprising, is the note taking app.  There’s the default iPhone note app, apps that try special input methods, and those that transcribe voice notes into text.  YouNote is another note taking app - the approach it takes to be different is to allow you to take different types of notes.

First off you can take plain-old regular text notes. Type in what you want, save.  Load later.  To save itself from being completely vanilla boring, Younote adds little features like the ability to put in tags on the note for searching later, or attaching a contact to the note.  The second note is the photo note;  take a picture, and file it away as a note.

The next app is the voice app.  This app allows you to record an audio note.  There’s definitely a bug with this feature, because the playback volume (or record volume, not sure which it is) is so low that I originally thought that the playback didn’t work at all.  Only after a few tries did I realize it was just really low volume.

There’s also a doodle note, a mini MS paint for those quickfootball plays.  This one works pretty well I found - somehow with its simplicity and lack of too many options, i actually thought it responded well to my doodling than some pure doodle apps out there (although with much less tools).  Lastly, there is a web bookmark note that allows you to bookmark a website and add notes to the bookmark.

Overall Impression

Given the diversity of the functions in this note app, I’m willing to give this app a try for a while longer.  While none of the note types are particularly impressive, its usually not to be expected with jack-of-all-trade type apps.  You lose a little on the feature list, but you get a one stop shop in return.

App Score: 3.0 out of 5.

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