MiniNote – Write Quick Notes vs AudioNote
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This appears to be the exact same app (other than offering Dark mode) as NoteAway...right down to the free version vs the $5 Pro version. Both apps are offered in the App store under two different companies. I've used NoteAway for years and love it...highlighting text and using PopClip to quickly send it to NoteAway is a feature I use daily. (and yes, MiniNote does have a PopClip extension that works exactly the same way.) It's not a place to permanently store important notes/docs, but for quick and temporary filing of random bits you come across it can't be beat for speed and simplicity. Not sure what's going on with the 2 different apps, but I'd definitely recommend trying one of them.
daveyarddave
About MiniNote – Write Quick Notes
MiniNote is, without a doubt, the most effective app for taking notes that you will ever use. It has been designed from the ground up to provide the simplest, quickest, and most enjoyable experience of taking notes that is humanly possible. If you give it a shot for a week, you'll be hooked on it for the rest of your life. The application is permanently installed in the menubar of your Mac and can be accessed at any time with the click of a button. Make use of it to jot down your ideas and other pieces of information that are significant to you, and do so with the confidence that your notes will be simple to retrieve whenever they are required.
Most popular feedback for AudioNote
Excellent tool, but watch for glitch I use this tool constantly, daily. I highly recommend it to anyone who would prefer to focus on a conversation or professional meeting without taking verbatim typed notes. Do be aware of your state's laws around recording meetings and whether you need to inform others that you are recording. The glitch is that sometimes I will open a new audionote and press "record" and then turn my attention elsewhere only to return to the audionote and see that, although the "record" button had gone from red to white-ish, there was nothing recorded. That has been frustrating. I now watch to be sure that the recording time begins to count up before turning my attention elsewhere, but I do forget sometimes.
Dr. Kim Sherman
About AudioNote
Record audio and notes that are synchronised with our most popular note-taking app! A notepad's features are combined in AudioNote. A useful tool that can help you save time and improve the quality of your notes, AudioNote combines the features of a voice recorder and notepad. It's the ideal app for businesses or students. AudioNote automatically indexes your meetings, lectures, interviews, or study sessions by syncing notes and audio. Need to go over the deliverables discussion from your upcoming project? Trying to recall what the professor said on a crucial topic? There's no need to waste time listening to the complete audio to find out with AudioNote. Each note serves as a direct link to the moment it was recorded, bringing you right to the content you're looking for. Did not record any meeting notes? No issue; just add them afterwards. AudioNote is a fully featured note-taking program that also improves the value of your notes. During playback, see how your words, drawings, and images highlight to help you recall the scene from which they were shot. You may use AudioNote anywhere, including conferences, meetings, interviews, lectures, and study sessions, thanks to the ease of the iPad or iPhone. Use it even to record notes to yourself as you make notes on fresh ideas. Join the tens of thousands of educators, corporate executives, and other professionals who have already realized how valuable AudioNote is.
MiniNote – Write Quick Notes reviews
Why do developers upgrade their applications to higher OS's as well as make them only available through the MAS, thereby making it impossible for users with older OS's to use the older versions? Developer: You have a nice app and you still have the versions that work on older OS's why not make these versions available via your website or some cloud filesharing site? The latter wouldn't cost you a penny. In addition, these people would then likely get your newest version of the app when they upgrade to a newer OS. Just provide a caveat of no support for the older version anymore.
- bbw7
I like it for what it is and for its cost. It's an easy to use and easy access notepad for taking quick notes while doing other things. I use a more comprehensive app, Growly Notes, for extended, organized note taking, but just for jotting things down on the fly, this works great. I only give it a "3" for features because it doesn't have a lot, but I don't expect a lot either for this type of note-taking app. Don't understand the complaints about cut & paste not working; both work for me. I am commenting on ver. 1.5
- bbw7
Not bad, but not that user friendly as is. requires that you keep going back to the note list manually after closing and opening again from the menubar, otherwise stays on the same page you left it, including the settings tab. Changing the font on one word changes the font on the entire database. Also a bit sluggish when changing page/tabs. Starting a new search requires highlighting and deleting of the previous word, there is no X button. Just some minor things.
- Trance
AudioNote reviews
I was also looking for a way to better visualize text as a set of notes while still using markdown and .txt, then I came up with the idea "Sticky notes + Markdown + Tabs, All in one .txt file"[1]. It's nothing fancy, just a prototype using electron and vanilla javascript. news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022 "Needs a few things to be perfect I love this app but I can’t zoom in and the highlighter only works when you type not when using the apple pen. Those are the only problems I have with this app. Please fix that." "NBillu , 02/16/2019, Appstore " "Near Perfect I can almost give AudioNote 2 a 5-star rating, and for the life of me, I do not understand how anyone could rate it 1 or 2 stars. I think that reveals more about user incompetence than it does about this excellent app. All in all, it’s nearly perfect. In fact, I hesitate to list what I think are its shortcomings, because it performs so well. But there are 3 aspects where I see room for improvement. 1. Better iPad integration with Apples Files app. I keep my current AudioNote work on my MacBook desktop, and I’d like to be able to open it on iPad and immediately edit. Instead, I have to download the whole audio file first. 2. Like nearly everyone else, AudioNote now requires a subscription to use advanced features. But I think the fee is unreasonably high. (And it would have been a good move to offer us early adopters of the original product a discount or some similar incentive. Nonetheless, the fee is too high.) 3. BIGGIE: Less complicated playback speed controls." "jginfl , 04/06/2018, Appstore"
- news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022
Needs a few things to be perfect I love this app but I can’t zoom in and the highlighter only works when you type not when using the apple pen. Those are the only problems I have with this app. Please fix that.
- NBillu , 02/16/2019, Appstore
Near Perfect I can almost give AudioNote 2 a 5-star rating, and for the life of me, I do not understand how anyone could rate it 1 or 2 stars. I think that reveals more about user incompetence than it does about this excellent app. All in all, it’s nearly perfect. In fact, I hesitate to list what I think are its shortcomings, because it performs so well. But there are 3 aspects where I see room for improvement. 1. Better iPad integration with Apples Files app. I keep my current AudioNote work on my MacBook desktop, and I’d like to be able to open it on iPad and immediately edit. Instead, I have to download the whole audio file first. 2. Like nearly everyone else, AudioNote now requires a subscription to use advanced features. But I think the fee is unreasonably high. (And it would have been a good move to offer us early adopters of the original product a discount or some similar incentive. Nonetheless, the fee is too high.) 3. BIGGIE: Less complicated playback speed controls.
- jginfl , 04/06/2018, Appstore
Pros & cons
MiniNote – Write Quick Notes
| Pros |
|---|
| Star notes to pin them to the top of the list |
| Time stamps for each note you create |
| Share notes via Email, Facebook and Twitter |
AudioNote
| Pros |
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| Take notes with recorded audio using the best note taking app in the App Store!AudioNote combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful tool that will save you time while improving the quality of your notes |
| It’s the perfect app for students or business.By synchronizing notes and audio, AudioNote automatically indexes your meetings, lectures, interviews, or study sessions |
| Need to review the discussion about deliverables on your next project? Trying to remember what the professor had to say about a key point? With AudioNote there is no need to waste time searching through the entire recording to find out |
| Each note acts as a link directly to the point at which it was recorded, taking you instantly to what you want to hear |
| Didn't take any notes during the meeting? No problem, you can add them later.A fully functional note application, AudioNote also increases the value of your notes |
| Watch as your text, drawings, and photos highlight during playback, helping you to remember the context in which they were taken.With the convenience of the iPad or iPhone, you can use AudioNote anywhere: meetings, interviews, conferences, lectures, study sessions |
| Even use it to record memos to yourself as you jot down new ideas |
| Join the thousands of students, teachers, business executives, and other professionals who have already discovered what an indispensable tool AudioNote can be |
| Download it today!**************************************************AudioNote Features:- Synchronized note and audio recording- Seek directly to audio by tapping notes- Highlighted notes during playback- Insert text, drawing, photo, & highlighter notes- Audio amplifier for recordings made in larger conference rooms- Import and take notes directly on PDF documents (iPad only)- Share with iCloud, Dropbox, over WiFi, or through iTunes- Desktop support: view your .audionote files on Mac or PC |
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