Which iPad App Gets Closest to the Convenience of Pen and Paper?

<p>There are just so many, many iPad note-taking apps in the App Store, many claiming to offer the honest-to-whatever-deity-you-worship-or-dont best writing experience ever. But how close do they get?</p> <p>All of them have tough, inexpensive competition in the shape of a plain old notebook and pen. Why are they so great? Convenience and familiarity:</p> <ul> <li>Take the notebook from your bag or out of your pocket.</li> <li>Get out your pen.</li> <li>Turn to the first blank page and start writing.</li> <li>Enjoy easily mixing writing with diagrams/quick sketches.</li> </ul> <p>There are other reasons why a notebook and pen combination is great, but I&rsquo;m focussing on these factors here. I&rsquo;m also not going to make arguments for taking notes electronically. Well, maybe I&rsquo;ll say they&rsquo;re easier to back up and search, but I&rsquo;ll stop there.</p> <p>Instead, I&rsquo;ll test how closely a selection of note-taking apps for the iPad get to the convenience of a notebook and pen. Because there are so many apps, I&rsquo;m going to do that in two stages.</p> <p>In stage 1, I&rsquo;ll put 7 apps through a simple test to evaluate general viability, scoring each out of 5. It&rsquo;s a sanity check.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/macoclock/which-ipad-app-gets-closest-to-the-convenience-of-pen-and-paper-b30e5fb7d811"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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