PaperPort Notes: A free and Powerful Notepad app for iPad
Nuance Communications, the provider of voice recognition engine for many iOS apps including Siri, has released a free iPad notes app called PaperPort Notes. A handy tool for everybody who want to carry just the iPad around to take notes.
The just provides a stack of papers that you create as you go. At anytime, you can rearrange, delete or bookmark as you go.
Once you create a new page, many options are offered using tools on the top:
The capital letter T indicates that you can drag a box to insert a photo, a frame, a sticky note and or text. This area subsequently, can be resized, moved or deleted .
You can use the pen function to jot annotation with color and pen thickness options. The two other tools are highlight and eraser, which are self-explanatory.
But since it came from Nuance, you should expect dictation capability. When In the” T” mode, after you drag a box, the keyboard pops up to reveal the Tap and Speak function that allow you to just dictate. The app will convert speech to text and insert to the box. Do not confuse with the mic icon on top that allows to attach an audio to the page.
Once done, use the left panel to re-arrange, select pages to copy to clipboard or to share as PDF.
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