Tag: NOTES

There are a lot of ways to take quick notes and share them online. Some, like Google Docs, have large feature sets and require accounts. J.ot Down is at the opposite end of the spectrum. It lets you type, share and save, and that's about it. Going to the site opens up a new note. From there, you just type. There's no formatting with fonts, colors or styles, and no HTML support - just typing. ...

Like to keep things as simple as possible? Looking for a way to create notes for yourself? Take a look at PicoNote. It's available in three forms: a free Windows application, a web-based app, and a mobile-friendly web app (http://m.piconote.com). From the moment you sign up, you'll enjoy its simplicity - the registration form only asks for a username and password. Once you've created an account, ...

There are plenty of fancy notebook applications out there. If you're just looking for a simple way to store text clippings, CintaNotes is worth a look. Highlight text in any application and press control+F12, and CintaNotes automatically captures it and adds the application window's title. Once a clip has been added, you can enter tags, edit the title or text, and add a URL. Links are ...

Desktop sticky note apps are old news. A basic one is packaged with Mac OS, and stickies will be a standard feature in Windows 7. Stickyscreen offers something different, though: a sticky note for your browser. It's a simple, minimal way of reminding you of a personal mantra or an important to-do item. Stickyscreen is just a pad you can write on, save as a homepage, and change whenever you want. ...

I've been looking for a good, small note taking / gtd application for a while, and hadn't found anything that suited my needs until I came across Notable. To me, it's like a better, digital version of the $1 spiral bound notebooks I've always used. It's design is simple, yet perfectly suited to the way I take notes. The top of the application window contains a list of your notes and the bottom ...

The New York Times company has launched a new application that makes it easy to save web links and notes and synchronize them between multiple devices. ShifD has several components. There's a web page where you can add notes in three categories: Links, places, and notes. You can also add a "ShifD This" browser bookmarklet that lets you instantly save any web page you're visiting to the Links ...

Springnote is a powerful browser based note taking system. You can forget about the standard text only inputs that many online note tools offer, this application has the ability to drop in images, attach files and organize layout at will. Its wiki style note taking system allows pages of content like todo's, monthly calendars and plans to be created with Word like functionality and tools with ...

Looking for a good solution for organizing all the notes in your life? EverNote is an application for saving web articles, snippets of Office documents, to-do lists, images, and other notes all in one handy package. There's also handwriting recognition for Tablet or UMPC users, an OCR that lets you search for text inside of images, and a Google Desktop indexer, making it easy to search for ...

Google has added support for labels to Google Notebook. The move isn't surprising. You can use labels to organize Gmail, Google Documents, RSS feeds in Google Reader, and the list goes on. What is a bit surprising is that it's taken so long to roll out support for labels in Google Notebook. Labels are automatically imported from your Google Bookmarks settings, if you use Google Bookmarks. You ...

You wouldn't normally think to take notes using a social application as Twitter, but it is possible. Twitternotes is an online application that uses the Twitter API to basically, take notes. This tool is a little more complicated than scratching something down in a notebook, using Outlook Notes, or one of the many other online note tools but if you have Twitter open throughout the day, this might ...

NoteSake is one of the cleanest, easy to use online note taking applications we have come across. This "keepsake" for your class notes is free to sign up to, and offers a clean look at your online class notes. Notes are easily entered using a scaled back toolset version, but it has the basics of what is needed including paragraphs, bolding, italics, underlines and bullets. Notes are neatly listed ...

With some students already in school, and some preparing to enter yet another journey into a new semester, let DLS make your studies that much more organized with a few free desktop and web applications that will make your school life that much more enjoyable. From free document creation applications, online to-do's and organization applications, users are faced with a decision, go for the costly ...

We know, it's the middle of the summer, but it's never too early to start looking at what you might need for the upcoming semester. And if you are looking for another way to get, and stay organized while off at school, Notely might be your lecture note savior. This online tool allows users to organize data from meetings, appointments, class notes, lectures, accessing it anywhere. There are a ...

Get a little more organized with this updated Notebook release from Google. The organizational tool looks a little nicer now, care of some AJAXy goodness from the team at Google. They have updated and transformed the once boring Google Notebook, into something extremely useful. Notebook now uses a nice blend of AJAX and common Gmail features to store and share notes. Users can create a list of ...

Getting and staying organized in any school level can be a little difficult, now there is a free online application that could help. mySchoolog is an online application that students can easily use to track and organize their school lives. Users start off by entering lessons they take and organizing them into categories, and make weekly schedules. Schedules can be made through a drag and drop ...