CourseNotes
By Dear Panda LLC
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Description
CourseNotes lets you take notes during classes or meetings, and keep them organized by subject! Take typed notes with rich text editing and import PDFs or other images into your notes. Then review your notes later and search through multiple class meetings and notes all at once. You can also keep ToDo lists and track assignments.
CourseNotes also syncs over WiFi with CourseNotes for the iPad, so you can take notes on the go and sync them back to your Mac.
Keeping class notes organized is a daunting task for any student. Put an end to unreadable notes on torn up spiral notebooks, and stop paging through your notes looking desparately for that one thing you remember writing that one time... Let CourseNotes be your guide!
FEATURES
• Take notes with text, images and imported PDFs
• Sync wirelessly with CourseNotes for the iPad
• Organize notes by subject and class meeting
• Print notes or export as HTML
• Track assignments and ToDo items
• Keep a unified ToDo list for each subject
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER!
http://twitter.com/@coursenotesapp
What's New in Version 2.5
• Added highlighting and text coloring functionality
• Text editing bar for faster styling of note text
• Improved bullet-outline functionality
• Added basic PDF import capabilities
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Customer Reviews
Rating As A College Note Taking Student.
I'm a college student and this is my primary note taking app for a majority of my classes. I've used this app for almost a full school year & I will continue to use it. I'll just breifly state my pros, cons & suggestions with this app.
Pros:
- Great note taking app for classes that you primarily write in. (History, English, some Science classes & etc.)
- They finally added a highlighting feature. (A customer's request).
- Coursenotes can backup your notes (not automatically) so you never have to worry about losing them.
- They have reminders to help you remember assignment due dates & etc. (although I've never used this feature)
- Your notes are very organized when using CourseNotes.
- Search bar. (Do I really have to explain this?)
- Many of the glitches are bearable although sometimes it can be annoying.
- I've never lost any of my notes using CourseNotes.
- You can easily transfer your notes with other students/people.
- Better, cleaner interface.
Cons
- Very pricey.
- Not a great note taking app for classes where DRAWING diagrams or writing EQUATIONS are very helpful (math, science, art, etc).
- Highlighting feature is sometimes glitchy. (Highlights more than what's required unless you have real precision. E.g. Sometimes it highlights what you wanted highlighted along with the huge empty space behind it & etc.)
- Bullet feature is sometimes glitchy.
- Has it's moments where everything goes blank & after "playing around" with the app a bit, your notes come back again.
Suggestions:
- Doodle-book/Drawing feature to help us draw diagrams.
- Feature to help write equations.
- Fix highlighting, bullet, & "everything goes blank" glitches.
Other than that, great app & I highly recommend it. I'd give it a 5 but some of the cons I wrote convinced me to give it a 4 star rating.
Easy and manageable …the improvements are welcomed :)
**** Version 2.5 review ****
I actually stopped using this app as the deficiencies were becoming more a struggle than the benefits I was seeing. Now there are some enhancements I was looking for that I think will streamline note taking and I'll try it again.
I am glad you added the formatting icons to the tool bar (not too much selection, just what people typically use - good!) and the bullet justification is fixed (totally been waiting for that one -- great!).
I will expect that some people will ask for icons to reflect the mode you're working in -- like the Bold icon looks selected or the colour of the line under the letter (for text color selection) match the colour you selected -- not a show stopper though, you did improve the experience!.
I still would like to see number lists included and really would like notification badging of ToDo lists (as I wrote previously) and for the updates to come a little more frequently -- but your 2.5 release is a good step forward.
You totally got the idea down of grouping notes for the same subject -- sorting through daily or weekly notes on a subject is very easy and I am actually quite surprised someone hasn't copied this format :)
Btw… for those who asked or complained about the app not supporting color changes, it actually always been there from the very first release, you just need to highlight the text - right click and select the "Font" menu. You'll see "Show Colors" and various other font manipulation tools are there (font styles, sizes, etc…) -- not obvious I know.
**** Version 2.0 review ****
I have been using the app since my last review in April and living with various bugs. I still think the app is a good app for note taking but was disappointed with the upgrade to 2.0. Sure there are fixes to the editor (you can now bold, underline and change text colour) but there are still justification issues with bullets (where long lines of text that wrap to a new line don't justify to the bullet start point - annoying) and there still isn't support for number lists. As I work with social software, I know there are free opensource editors that provide a full set of editor features and I guess after 4 months of waiting for the upgrade, I expected more improvement :(
Notifications (even a basic badging capability) is really needed in this product, the lack of them means the ToDo list isn't as useful as it should be. In addition to improving notifications for ToDo items it would be nice to allow the user to see prioritization of these items in the ToDo list (strangely, CourseNotes allows you to colour the ToDo item but you can't see it in the list so there is limited value with that feature) -- this is actually a big deal to get correct as you need these little cues to force you to look at the ToDo list from time to time.
Other little things... a simple icon to bring up the rich text editing seem to be an over sight ...especially since there is real estate to do this in the tool bar area -- so all in all, there is still work to do here to get the app on par with the basic editor features other apps can do today. As I noted in my previous review, I would still like to see where a user could add a Word doc, Excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint to a note -- not just a picture. Fortunately for CourseNotes, these other apps fall down in other important areas (like treading of notes sessions and ease of managing notes) that this app does well.
CourseNotes is still a helpful and useful application (I do like the organization of notes and the sync with an iPad without a cloud), but for my purposes (capturing meeting notes in business meetings) and observing how long it takes to get some basic feature improvements with the product, I'll continue using it ...but I am going to keep searching for that nirvana app. Hopefully the team will listen and produce quicker updates to keep me using it -- there isn't a lot more to address to make it 5 stars.
**** Version 1.0 review ****
I (like many people) have been poking about looking for that great note taking/todo app. It seems like no one can pull it off with one app without some quirk or annoyance that makes you keep looking for the nirvana app. I looked at CourseNotes for business note taking and logging meeting minutes and I had some simple goals -- 1. I didn't want to sync with my iPad via a cloud service, 2. I want it easy to navigate the list of notes, 3. I want it visually appealing as I am going to live in this thing a lot, 4. The note taking area needs to be separate and sizable (I don't want to feel I am craming my information in some small space), 5. Setting Todos and defining the subject didn't take me to some modal dialog boxes, 6. Basic editor controls for bullet and number list, 7. Attachments for Office documents.
Sounds simple but many apps just can help themselves with making things complex!
This app (CourseNotes), although targeted to school notes, does a lot of good things and does them right --addressing many of my needs above. It still needs some improvement in the editor area (number lists), with notifications of ToDos (basic badging would be nice) and adding doc, xls, and ppt files ... but as this is an initial release, I am hoping they will come through with the items I want to see get done. Despite the deficienes, It does so many things really well around creating notes and managing them ... and when they get the other items I want, they will get my 5 stars.
PLEASE fix the bullet function.
I've been using this app for about 4 months now, please fix the bullet function. Make it just like Pages (or Word), and it will be perfect. I don't know why the bullet function is so buggy for this app, but it is extremely annoying. Fix the bullet function and this app will get my 5 star rating.
- $7.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Apr 13, 2012
- Version: 2.5
- Size: 3.0 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Dear Panda LLC
- © 2011, Dear Panda LLC
Requirements: OS X 10.6.6 or later, 64-bit processor
