For you iPad gurus...

mrrman

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What app can you use to take notes with a stylus pen? I currently use the old pen and paper routine and want to see if I can eliminate this. Thanks
 

dagamer34

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There aren't any stylii accurate enough to replace pen and paper because it lacks a digitizer.
 

pm

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I'm going to disagree with dagamer on this one. I have an iPad and for father's day, my family bought me a stylus. I will agree that the lack of a true pressure-sensative digitizer results in less than optimal sketching capabilities, but for just taking notes, a stylus and an iPad work well enough.

Notability is my favorite. http://www.gingerlabs.com/cont/notability.php $1 - here's a video of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV7-3MGIF0s
Penultimate is very good and free. https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id354098826?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo=4
Paper is more for sketching than writing, but it's free and well done. https://itunes.apple.com/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812

The only one that I currently have loaded and use regularly is Notability.
 

mrrman

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I'm going to disagree with dagamer on this one. I have an iPad and for father's day, my family bought me a stylus. I will agree that the lack of a true pressure-sensative digitizer results in less than optimal sketching capabilities, but for just taking notes, a stylus and an iPad work well enough.

Notability is my favorite. http://www.gingerlabs.com/cont/notability.php $1 - here's a video of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV7-3MGIF0s
Penultimate is very good and free. https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id354098826?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo=4
Paper is more for sketching than writing, but it's free and well done. https://itunes.apple.com/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812

The only one that I currently have loaded and use regularly is Notability.

Thanks...Ill give this a try
 

Super56K

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Don't get your hopes up too much. It works great for light/moderate use (I use my iPad regularly to annotate PDF docs), but more than that and you'll likely go back to using pen and paper.
 

Red Storm

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Using those big "sponge tip" stylus on screens that have no digitizer is akin to using a fat crayon to try and write.

Digitizer or go home, it's that simple.
 

s44

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If you don't already have the iPad, go buy a Note 10.1 instead.