Taking Notes with the iPad

One of the first things that come to mind when you start to use an iPad is that you will want to use it to take notes during meetings or in the everyday course of your life.  The fact is  that you will probably carry your iPad to the places where you would want to read the notes and that you will have it with you when you need to take them.

Since this is a topic of continuous interest to current and future iPad users, iPad Watcher will maintain this page updated with related information such as links to past articles on the subject and lists of free and commercial note taking applications.  As they are published we will add links to reviews of applications which are primarily used for notes.

Types of Note Taking Apps

I have looked at a lot of apps for note taking on the iPad and in doing so I noticed that they tend to fall into two major groups:  those that are geared towards keyboard usage and those that are geared towards free drawing/sketching notes.  While the drawing/sketching notes applications tend to have the more appealing and sophisticated interfaces, I personally find applications that handle input through the virtual keyboard to be more productive.  Of course, there are any number of situations in which having the ability to include sketches into your notes can be incredible useful, but most applications that handle the notes as text have at least some basic provision for allowing the user to do some sketching as well.

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