Sticky Notes on the App Store here
Cost: Free
An app that seems silly and gimmicky – but is actually VERY useful!
Great if you use your iPad as a second screen / organiser
And these post-its won’t fall off your monitor!!
Possible Uses
- Daily todo lists – different notes/colours for different groups (ie email, phone calls, errands)
- Presentation notes – one for each slide, then email or share on Twitter afterwards
- Organisation planning
Good Points
- Easy to use – enough options to make it useful, not not too many that it becomes confusing/messy
- Choice of colours – good choice of note and font colours, so you can categorise easily
- Font choices – not as useful as colours, but it’s still nice to use your favourite font for your notes
- Font size – changes with a WYSIWYG bar not with a font-size drop down (so you can see how it looks)
- Scale – good use of 2-finger scaling of each note. Font increases as note does
- Easy to edit fonts afterwards – changing font changes whole note so easy to edit
- Email feature – grabs of whole board and individual notes can be shared
- Twitter share – share individual note or entire board via Twitter
Things to Improve On
- Can’t sync to another device (so maybe not so useful for shopping lists etc if you’re mobile)
- Fiddly to delete individual notes – you need to edit note, then click cross then confirm delete
- No way to clear all notes – if you’re using if for lots of temporary projects, you can’t bulk delete notes
- Copy Notes – no way to copy notes, which would be useful if you had a template for a particular note
Extras
- Photos and camera through in app purchase – 69p (incl add photos and save to photos)
- Unlimited page with upgrade – 69p