Originally an iPad exclusive, Nebo has since expanded to include other platforms (Windows 10 if you've got a Surface Pen, and Android devices that use active stylus peripherals). If you're more about jotting down notes as opposed to typing them down, Nebo is an incredibly versatile note taking tool. Users can write equations and calculate or export to LaTeX, export into Microsoft Office documents or text files, and search through your notes to find something you've scribbled down. Using MyScript's Interactive Ink tech, Nebo parses your handwritten notes into text, while allowing you to easily format your notes, add extras like emphasis, underlining, bullet points, mathematical notations, and picture annotation. MyScript's Nebo is a feature-rich note-taking app built with handwriting and active stylus devices like the Apple Pencil and the Samsung S Pen for the Galaxy Note (and now the Galaxy S21 Ultra) in mind. iOS 15's tags feature also gives you a better way of organizing Notes, as you can see in our iOS 15 Notes hands-on.ĭownload Notes: iOS (opens in new tab) Agenda

And in iOS 15, a new mentions feature notifies people when they're tagged in a shared note. The sharing feature alone makes Notes a pretty compelling option, even for a built-in app on your iPhone. Other options allow you to share Notes with other people, with everyone able to make changes from their iPhone, iPad or Mac. You can also password-protect your notes (or unlock them with TouchID).

One of the most compelling reasons to use Notes - other than the fact that it's already there on your iPhone or iPad - is that all of your notes are synced across your iCloud devices. Users can organize notes and attachments in a folder system and search for text What you get from this built-in app is a clean, simple interface and a number of tools for creating notes with formatted text, dictation, drawings, images, web snippets and file attachments.

IPhone users already have a pretty compelling note-taking option on their phone courtesy of Apple's Notes app.

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