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The best note-taking apps for the iPad and Apple Pencil - YouTube
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hi this is life of Macworld and today
we're gonna look at the best note-taking
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apps for the iPad and the Apple pencil
now I've actually been using my iPad
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this way for a long time I like to use
it kind of like a legal pad as opposed
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to something that you type on and
everything and the Apple pencil makes
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that really convenient the really good
news is that there's a lot of apps
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already on the App Store that allow you
to do this even though the Apple pencil
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just now came to the smaller iPad so
today let's try some of those out so the
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first step we're going to look at is
Apple's own Notes app it's Apple's own
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stock app so you shouldn't expect any
big features in it so down here
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basically you have a pen you have a
highlighter you have a pencil you have
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an eraser and a selection tool and
assortment of colors you can also choose
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if you wanted to have lines or you want
it to be unlined and but that's about
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the extent of the customization you're
going to get with this tool one thing I
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really like about it is that the pencil
actually looks like you're riding with a
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pencil you believe it or not that it's
really hard to get in a lot of
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note-taking apps but another really
amazing thing about this is that this
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selection tool is extremely accurate
it'll pick up the line if you want
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summary of a section of the text and
because this is Apple's own app it works
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directly with the iPad interface itself
so very nice if you have an Apple pencil
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you can just tap on it and boom you
don't even have to unlock your iPad you
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can scribble a note but again it's very
bare-bones
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so the next step we're gonna look at is
notability and if I were to tell you to
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spend 10 bucks on any of these apps this
would be the one I would try to spend 10
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books on I'll tell you why because it's
the one that I actually bought and it's
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the one that I use frequently I use this
app almost every day so you have a lot
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of the same features as Apple's does you
know you have the pin but the difference
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is you can actually adjust the stroke
width here which you could not do with
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Apple's one you have a lot more colors
here you have the highlighter you have
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the eraser a cutting tool and just
something there that allows you to you
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know the move around the text you also
have a you know you can actually just
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write by regular text using a keyboard
if you want to but the most amazing
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thing about a know bit none note ability
and which makes it more notable than any
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this
is that it feels exactly like riding
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with a pen so many apps don't get that
they feel you know you can you feel like
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you're still using a stylus but this one
it actually feels fluid and I think
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that's really important nobody else
nails that quite like notability the
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other thing that's really nice about
this is other apps dude that's better I
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should say is that you can take the
selection tool and you can click on it
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right there and convert the text and
it'll actually see it actually misread
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it there but I was trying to say dog and
this is what I mean by some apps do this
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better but it's not that it's not the
best one and so converting your
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handwriting into text is still very much
a work in progress but it is possible if
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you write super neat the thing you have
to remember with a lot of these apps is
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that often you're not really writing
neat so don't expect perfection with
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that one final feature that I really
love about this is that you can start
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recording up here and it will tell you
know so if I'm writing this later on I
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can go back to these notes and I can
press on this and you'll hear the actual
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audio that was being saying while I was
writing dog is black you know this is
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really helpful if you're in a lecture
hall taking notes and you're writing by
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hand and you want to see what your
professor said alternatively you can
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also import PDFs mark them up with this
app and you can also change what the
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paper looks like there are many
different varieties of colors here you
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can you know make the paper gridded just
like you could a notes but there's a lot
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more options here but basically anything
you want a handwriting based app to do
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with your Apple pencil with taking notes
not necessarily making art with it you
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can do it with notability so the next
step we're gonna look at is good notes
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for good notes for is still a really
great app I wouldn't call it as great as
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note ability but one of the really cool
things that it does is it allows you to
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categorize your your subjects by
notebook so say you know you can change
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the art here you know you can change the
paper and so you can create that book
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and gives you a really good idea of
having like different subjects so we
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would you know just like a regular you
know notebook that you buy at Walgreens
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or something like that
you could you could boom you know you've
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got a subject heading for that and then
you can you can start writing it here so
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let's do something right here
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now the problem with this as I see it is
this is an app that basically mimics the
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feel of using real paper I actually
consider that a weakness because one of
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the amazing things about digital ink is
that you know technically you should be
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able to just keep scrolling and writing
as you want with this you're basically
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limited into how the page looks which is
the way paper used to be which makes it
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convenient for printing out obviously if
you want to and you can do that with
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this app but the problem is it really
limited you and what you do but this
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doing still has a lot of good options
you know you have the highlighter you
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know you can erase you have the
selection tool and you also have a
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really cool feature in that which you
can basically use the shape tool to make
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perfect shapes more along the lines of
what you want it so let's make a circle
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let's make a triangle and see it'll
basically make them on your page the way
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you meant to make them so much like
notability and a couple of the other
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apps we're gonna be looking at it does
recognize your text but unlike a lot of
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these other apps it doesn't try to give
you text that you can paste into an
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email or something however it does allow
you to search through your notes which
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is kind of cool because it will actually
recognize what you wrote and sometimes
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like video or this will show up
I doubt it could read Macworld here but
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what that one feature I really like
about good notes for is that you can use
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this little zoom in tool you know so if
you're typing if you're riding along as
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I should say and you remember something
so I want to put a big note up here so
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boom as you can see that shows up in the
actual text here on the page but it's a
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lot smaller and especially when you have
a lot of text going here it's a lot
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simpler to get that in so the next step
we're going to look at is my scripts
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Nero and Nebo is really cool because
handwriting recognition is its thing
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it's a fairly simple app otherwise but
you know you can't really adjust these
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lines you can't put the grids on there
and everything but it is absolutely
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fantastic at handwriting recognition
this is what it is meant to do so let's
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write a line out here so I wrote the
sentence this is a video about apps and
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I don't know if you can see it but I it
came out perfectly in text as I was
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writing it and so there's none of this
circling it and everything else it does
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it immediately and it does it very well
the problem is again you're really stuck
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in this one structure but if you're just
interested in getting your you know
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translating your thoughts from
handwriting into actual text without
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doing a lot of you know retyping or
something like that this is a good app
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for doing it now the problem is as a
person who writes a lot by hand I can
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tell you that if you're taking notes and
you're in a classroom or something and
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your professor is going so let's see I
want to say the nearest star to us is
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the Sun and he's - saying that that's me
being I can actually read that but it
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came out the nearest start to co-ed he
ate you MA so that gives you an idea if
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you're really rushing to write something
down maybe you have better handwriting
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than I do it's gonna you know you're not
gonna have an easy as a time and I
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should say you know this works best with
a print based handwriting system as
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opposed to cursive or something so let's
let's write my name yeah see I was
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looking all pretty there in his putting
leg so if you're writing you know the
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way it wants you to riding along the
lines writing and basically you know a
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manuscript non cursive script it will do
really well other than that I don't know
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but if handwriting recognition is what
you want
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niebo is a really good app for it so
Apple fans get this the next app we're
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going to be looking at is actually a
Microsoft app this is Microsoft OneNote
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now he is a good chance that you've
actually used one notes before it's a
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very robust app especially if you're
taking text and everything like that you
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can insert photos you can answer tables
files but since we're working with the
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Apple pencil this is what we're going to
be focusing on the drawing section now
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in a lot of ways it's very similar to
Apple's own app and that it's got very
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simple tools you know you you have the
pin you have a blue pin a green pant a
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highlighter and some other stuff and the
nice thing is is that unlike Apple's
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Notes app you can actually adjust a
stroke width and stuff so let's take a
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look at it so far so similar to anything
else that we've written and let's add
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another one now one of the reasons why I
really love OneNote is a lot of these
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you can't really you know let's say I
want to scribble in something in between
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here as you saw sometimes I had to use
like a magnifying tool or something but
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watch this I can actually insert more
text in between here for me that's very
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amazing especially when I'm writing like
handwritten drafts and I want to insert
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another paragraph or something boom I
don't have to rearrange the whole thing
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and another really amazing thing
especially if you're using this for like
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a corporate group or something is that
you can actually add people too you know
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you can invite people to collaborate on
this notebook with you and if you think
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this is a small space so so let's add a
little blue here check this out it gives
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you a massive range this is a massive
board to work with so this little bit
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that we were working out of here the
opening page that's right here this is
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the whole whole screen that you have to
work with so if you're trying to use
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mind mapping with your colleagues or
something like that this is a good way
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to to map it all out unfortunately this
means that you can't easily export it to
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PDF like you handle with some of these
other apps but you know for the chance
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to collaborate they're having a nice
easy place where your notes are stored
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in the cloud available anywhere you want
them to be it's an excellent app so the
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next thing we're looking at is notes
plus this actually used to be my
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favorite handwriting app but later on I
found that notability had the really
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fluid writing and so I went over to that
but other than that it's a it's you know
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it's something that really gets what
it's like to write with a pen on digital
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paper you're not really necessarily
limited to the actual page that you're
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working with you can keep writing you
know so you know if I have this here
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now I can just keep moving it and just
go on forever and that that's really
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amazing thing to do here now another
thing as you saw you know some of the
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other ones you know you I can use this
to zoom in to say something else so it's
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uh yeah so if I need to really you know
zoom in to write something I can do that
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now
the really cool thing about this one in
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my opinion is that I can't believe that
and other apps don't do this but if I
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make a mistake and I want to scratch it
out look at that I can just scratch it
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out that's such a simple thing you think
that would be very intuitive with the
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rest of apps with the Apple pencil but
this is the only one that I know of that
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really does it and I think more of them
should do that as with other apps you
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have you know handwriting ticket you
know handwriting recognition that one
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actually did recognize me saying dog so
hey good for you notes plus but it's
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basically the same thing as good notes
for note ability but it does some things
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a lot better like that scratching out so
the next step we're gonna look at here
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is car flow and unlike using in an iPad
like a legal pad or a notebook
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it focuses on allowing you to use index
cars without killing a whole forest
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worth of trees and I really like this
because it's a good way of arranging
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your ideas in a way that a traditional
outline won't allow you to it's
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basically a storyboard you know the way
that screenwriters and novelists will
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put their ideas on the wall of index
cards and rearrange them as needed and
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this allows you to do that right here on
the screen and it's it's really cool
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because you know you can select multiple
of them and therefore you know you can
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arrange them as you need and I could add
so many more cards to this the problem
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is is that I've noticed sometimes when
you get too many cards it'll sometimes
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crash but other than that I really love
this way of doing it you can also do it
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with text you don't have to just use the
the pencil you know if you buy the the
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premium version there is there actually
a very good free version you can add
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hyperlinks and images and stuff like
that and it makes it really useful but
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again I love this it is actually my
favorite outlining tool and for similar
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reasons that you see with storyboards
and the like so today we've looked at
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seven apps that all focus on writing by
hand with the
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pencil on the iPad they all have various
strengths and they did those strengths
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very well but if I were to choose ones
that I would use every day and one that
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I would spend my money on it would be
notability
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