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Please suggest note taking app

I am looking for 3 things [ need all 3 ]

1. Ability to add different pages [ blank / ruled ...] in PDF

2. When i want to add text , it automatically aligns the text b/w lines and when i press enter , it goes to next space b/w lines [like in notability]

3. Ability to add shapes [resizeable] directly on PDF

I am asking here because i bought notability , it has 1,2 not 3 . I also bought PDF expert 5 , it has 1,3 not 2.

Please suggest some app which can do all 3

Thanks

iPad Pro, iOS 9.3.1, note taking

Posted on May 5, 2016 7:56 AM

18 replies

May 9, 2016 5:40 AM in response to BangkokDangerous

BangkokDangerous wrote:

First of all, the OP is under their first 90 days of ownership.

How do you know that? Please show where they stated that.

BangkokDangerous wrote:

I was responding to your sarcastic reply regarding my reply to another poster.

"To provide technical support with problems people are having with various Apple products" was not sarcastic. It is an accurate statement of the purpose of this forum.

May 9, 2016 5:45 AM in response to MilanDaamJi

MilanDaamJi wrote:

Everyone ,please calm down.

I would like suggestions for the apps

I am asking because you may have used the app and many of these apps dont offer trial.

You have three specific (not entirely clear, to me, at least) requirements. I still don't understand what you mean about aligning text between lines. People can give you all sorts of suggestions for note taking apps (there are thousands). I like Notes+ and Goodnotes. You're still going to need to do the research to see if they meet your needs.

May 9, 2016 6:02 AM in response to MilanDaamJi

I do most PDF markup and editing in GoodReader, but I also have PDFExpert and iAnnotate for PDF markup. For notes I actually use several apps, depending on the specific note taking needs at the time - DailyNotes and Beesy for business meetings, NoteShelf and Notes+ for general note taking, and Awesome notes for secure notes. I've not really explored it yet, but since my company now uses Office 365 I plan to see how MS OneNote works for any of these tasks.

I'll add my $0.02's to Meg's comment that I really don't understand what your requirement #2 even means?

But I also suspect that as you've already discovered, you may well find there is no single app that meets all of your requirements. You either need to compromise on those, find workarounds or do as I and many others I know do and simply use alternate apps for different situations or needs. Or perhaps a mere "notes" app is insufficient for your needs and you need to look at using a true word processing app like Apple's Pages or Microsofts Word.

Please suggest note taking app