Only those who live in the past still write notes with pen and paper! With a smartphone you can take notes and notes quickly, writing, using your voice or even taking a photo. Each mobile phone already has a tool for taking notes, but if you are using an iPhone, an iPad or an Android smartphone / tablet there are some essential applications that allow you to mark notes or things to remember and keep every note synchronized so you can find it again on all devices used: mobile phone, tablet or computer. In this article we therefore discover the best apps for taking notes on the phone, for organizing things to remember, for having reminders of appointments or events .
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1) Evernote is one of the most popular apps in all stores, present for several years now. Evernote allows you to add notes and organize using tags or categories. Notes can be textual, images, vowels, handwritten, screenshots or scans of sheets of paper. All notes are synchronized, securely, on your free account and are therefore available via the web, desktop, iOS devices, Android and Windows Phone. Notes can also be shared with anyone via email or via Facebook.
2) Microsoft Onenote has recently been renewed and made a free program separate from Microsoft Office in which it was included until recently. OneNote is a really full-featured app, which includes many of the Word tools, plus those of a clipboard application. Onenote integrates with OneDrive so everything that is saved on the smartphone also becomes visible from other devices. Notes can also be Onenote with text notes, photos, document scans (with OCR function) and web pages. Onenote is available for iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, Windows PC and Mac.
3) Google Keep is the third competitor of this special category of applications, easy to use, free, integrated with other Google services. Keep can be used via the web, as a Chrome app and on Android and iPhone smartphones and the notes are also visible from Google Drive. The notes can be, in addition to written notes and voice notes and lists, also photos with the particular functionality of being able to automatically transcribe the text in the photos.
4) Any.Do is one of the best reminder apps, which can also be used to take notes and mark things to remember. You can then set an alarm as a notification or sound so you never forget an appointment or event. As in the others, notes can also be taken by speaking. The application is available on Chrome, iPhone, Android and via the web.
5) Notion for Android and iPhone is a note-writing app that allows you to take quick notes and also to create to-do lists and wikis. In addition, this application allows you to create notes in collaboration with other people.
6) Otter Voice Notes for Android and iPhone is the best app for recording voice notes and transcribing them into automatically written text.
7) Microsoft To-Do, evolution of Wunderlist is an excellent application for iPhone and Android that allows you to write to-do lists, reminders with notifications, alarms, the possibility of sharing appointments and many other perfect functions to make your smartphone a intelligent work agenda.
8) Zoho Notebook, for Android and iPhone, is perhaps the best application for taking notes on the phone and organizing notes, both for the graphic interface and for completeness of information.
9) SimpleNote is the app for those who want a simple writing sheet, basic and without distractions. Notes are synchronized on smartphones (Android or iOS), PC (Windows 10, Windows 7/8, macOS and Linux) and can also be read from the SimpleNote web page. You can organize your notes with tags, you can collaborate with other SimpleNote users by sharing a link of the note. As for the notes themselves, they can only be made of text, without images or voice memos.
10) ColorNote (Android only) is a great way to organize notes on your mobile phone thanks to the colors and create to-do lists sorted by name, creation or modification date. Notes can be archived, but there is no option to create folders or tags.
11) Notin is only for Android and works well for writing quick notes that appear on the notification bar.
12) SomNote, for Android and iPhone, an easy web app for notes where you can create multiple notes, attach multimedia files or documents and sort them in multicolor folders. If you store a lot of notes, SomNote offers 100 MB of free cloud storage space for each account.
13) Samsung Notes is the default app on Samsung phones, great for taking notes and organizing them in collections or on a single page. You can set mark important notes or sort notes by title, creation date or modification date. On the Galaxy Note, the app supports S-Pen for handwriting on the mobile phone screen. Voice recordings and photos can also be attached. However, notes cannot be synchronized on other devices and on PC.
14) Post-It, for Android and iPhone, is an official 3M app that takes notes to stick on the screen (virtually). The app uses graphic elements that look like real post-its to be immediately visible.
I could go on with the list by citing other excellent and functional applications, only that, over time, I have been able to notice how many of these services were born and died within a few years, forcing users to save the notes elsewhere if not, even, lose them. The 5 apps mentioned above are among the most used almost monopolizing so it becomes difficult for others to be able to resist this competition and it is not worth the risk.
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