I’m a huge fan of Qrayon and own many of the products; their apps tend to be intuitive and functional in a way most others just aren’t—and I’ve tried a lot of notebook, notecard, etc. apps!
I used Inkflow for a long time; I fell out of the digital notebooks for awhile and came back to them again recently, so naturally I opened Inkflow—which was just as great as I remembered, until it started failing to save, losing data if I didn’t close out the notebook when I went to another app, getting stuck on zoomed in mode, and just generally being kind of laggy. I was trying to use the notebook to take notes about information on another app, so this was the epitome of frustrating. I went to the Qrayon website in search of help, but was distracted in my quest by the discovery of Noteflow, which in many ways seem to me to be the newer, better version of Inkflow, so I tried the free version and was sold pretty quickly.
It’s functional, easy to use, but with powerful features; it doesn’t have a problem if I move between apps, and it has a lot of awesome new features, like the side-by-side option, importing calendars, and dragging and dropping information from other apps— I’m super excited to play with this!
However, I was also quite disappointed by the absence of some of my favorite Inflow features, particularly custom stationary and the eye dropper on the pen color window, and would really like to see these added. The custom stationary simply makes my life easy—I don’t get confused about which notebook I’m in, and there are studies supporting the idea that different colors help the brain retain information better (I have found that neons help me most, and those options aren’t available in the presets!) I also tend to color code, and the eye dropper just made that so easy. There is one other feature I’d like to suggest: being able to change the size of the eraser! It’s fairly annoying to me to have to zoom in every time I want to erase a mark or word, but not the things next to it!
Having tried most of the notebook apps out there, this one is head and shoulders above the rest, and I’ll recommend it to anyone who asks. It’s biggest strength is it’s simplicity—you don’t have to spend forever trying to figure out how the buttons work. It’s easy to use, it’s super versatile, and is still a very powerful app with lots of features. That is a very hard thing to find in any productivity app, so major kudos to the Qrayon team for cracking that code!
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