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Beautiful with a few flaws
I have just barely begun using this. So far so good. This ui feels like a fun paper notebook with many options. I like the calendar integration but don’t like that the writing for the appointments don’t align the same each time, specifically on the daily calendar sheets. Sometimes they are at the top, sometimes bottom, sometimes outside the appointment.
It would be nice if you could add dividers. And the ability to move a page by giving it a new page number instead of dragging it would be great.
I maybe doing it wrong but it would also be nice to have the pop up to select stationary happen when you hit the plus sign so you can pick what you want instead of automatically duplicating the previous page.Show lessWiechman
20 pages of notes just gone
Have been in an online course for over a year. The course ended and the notes are no longer retrievable. I do not know what happened. I did not push delete anywhere. I had stayed up all night before the Discord channel was cleared for the next program. When flipped the pages — blank. Just gone. Also the folder is empty that I was told to check from the help menu. This was a $5,000 program that I can not take again. Very important to me. When I saw the were all blank… I cried so hard I couldn’t breathe. So much work. I’m afraid to even go back over what I have. Afraid of loosing more. Devastated.Show lessKellyattheshore
Amazingly versatile. Missing a key feature.
Penbook is amazing. I’ve been looking for a place where my ADD brain can explode. This app gives me that versatility with the variety of page templates. They have thought of just about everything. I would love if it had a password option. I’m starting to use it for more personal thoughts and for writing stories and screenplays. I would be uncomfortable leaving it in this app if I could not safeguard it. It would be awesome if there could be some variety in writing utensils to include art brushes and highlighters. Finally, it would be incredible if the app had an adaptive feature that would allow you to search and it could find information in your books for you. Obviously that would require it to have the ability to read hand writing. It might be nice if we could also convert our handwriting to text with a touch of a button. As a writer I would love that feature! Overall I am happy with this app for general use.Show lessFrenchFryAddict
Love this app!
I love this app. It’s simple but also so affective in writing notes. The only thing I would like to see updated is being able to use the whole page. When you get close to your pen section, you can’t write anymore. If we could see an option to hide the pens and use the whole page in full screen I would die for this app!Show lessbxsbbddxvdndvsvxbbchdbd
Very useful
This is my first time doing digital notes for school so I was on the look for a note taking app. I tried the free version before committing and I am obsessed with taking notes on it. I like that variety on pens types you can use and the ability to select specific shades of color. I bought the yearly subscription since unlimited notebooks and pdf downloading was a must to me. I also love that besides note taking I can do my journaling here using the different washi tapes, already made pages and fonts. The pre made notebooks are also very handy and I like the selection of pages depending on the purpose of the notebook; notes, journal, calendar (weekly, monthly and even yearly), diagrams and drawings. I like that I can create my own pages and favorite them so I can implement them later on other books. Overall great app and I’d recommend to anyone who rather have digital notes rather than a bunch of paperwork. 10/10Show lessChuchi712
DO NOT GET THIS APP
I usually don’t write bad reviews but this app warranted me to write this. I am a college student and wrote all of my notes on this app. I used it all senior year of high school and the beginning of college and had no problems. Recently my notes would be there for days and then all of the sudden they would be gone. They disappeared 3 days ago and I have not been able to get them back. I also emailed this company and after 3 days I still have heard no response. If you hold any value to the notes you need to take do not get this app, and don’t make the same mistake as me and give them money.Show lessuser18729519
Wanna love this app
I love this app for no taking and trying, and sketching. One of the things I wish you could do is upload custom images as your front cover, it would help sort when you have a lot of notebooks. Another thing I have found as an issue, is when you use the ruler if you zoom in a lot it will actually offset the line that you were trying to draw away from the ruler instead of lining it up. I might be going about it wrong, but it looks more like a bug. I would be willing to send a recording of what I’m talking about to the developer if you would like that.Show lessFresh Samurai
Really want to like the app.
The app has several sparks of brilliance and the vast array of notebook types far outstrip what I’ve seen in other notebook apps. Unfortunately, the app has several issues that make me switch to other apps to get actually work done. Issues: First, using the Apple Pencil to navigate the UI is frustrating. Several touch/tap zones(like when switching tools) are too tight are require multiple taps to activate. Second, I have to use my finger to activate UI elements because of the poor touch zones when using an Apple Pencil , but even some buttons are still are very hard to use when using a finger. Like the edit button when trying to delete pages. Annoyances: First, The text based “stickers” don’t account for background color, so if you use black notebook “paper” the sticker labels still have black text. Second, I want to disable both the swipe down gesture and swipe up gesture, I keep activating them on accident. Third, When adding a sticker, you have to manually press the layer button to leave “edit?“ mode. Tapping outside the sticker should just do that. Outside of those things I’ve listed. Notebook management is nonexistent . You can’t group notebooks nor and you can only view your list of notebooks in a 50/50 view with an open notebook. I want a dedicated view that shows notebooks. And on the very low list of things is a fountain pen option as a tool.Show lessStayFrostE
Update
I have generally cored the app. However, this new update allows you to switch drawings or signs to whatever the app thinks is the perfect version of what you were trying to do. This B great in theory, except it happens when your finger rests on the page, even if it's a really old page. So, I keep finding random rectangles on parabolic drawings in my notes, and because it got changed so much later than I wrote them originally, I no longer know what my math notes are trying to communicate. And, when I'm trying to actually use the feature, it misreads what Sam trying to draw it turns my ovals into weird lines and my lines into boxes or ovals, and my boxes into lines. And it's not predictable. It's driving me crazy!
Otherwise, I like being able to export to a pad, and I like the way the pages and graphical interface look. I also like the shading attributes of the drawing tools.Show lesssmilinggirld
Perfect
Honestly… I love this app. It makes it easy to organize and identify your information quickly and easily.
My only suggestion would be to add a second workspace. I have one general task that I use several notebooks for and I have other random things I don’t want to use that workspace for so it would be nice if I could make a “Work” workspace where personal books don’t appear and a “Personal” workspace where the work books don’t appear.
As of now, anything that doesn’t belong with what I’m doing through this app is all done in Apple notes. Not quite the same.Show lessBDP913
