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Significant lag in notes with lots of text

I use this app all the time. It's a place where all the little odds & ends and tidbits of info get stashed. I notice that when a note gets a lot of text (say 1,400+ words), there is a noticable lag for any action in that note (say...typing, or moving around the note using arrow keys on a keyboard).

This does not effect other notes in the app. So if one note has 1,500 words...noticable lag, but typing in another note that has only 100 words, works just fine.

There are other issues with this app, but this is the one that's currently bugging me. However, it *still* is my go to note app.
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Response from developer

Here are a couple suggestions when working with a large amount of text. 1. Try small blocks of text: This may help with typing speed, moving around the note, and note taking in general. When you're working on a note, consider breaking up new thoughts or sections of the note with sketch lines. This will only work when you're creating a new note. One possible workflow might go like this: You create a new note, typing some text into the note. Then, before adding a new idea to the note, grab the sketch pen, and draw a horizontal line in the empty part of the page beneath the text you just typed. Tap Done, then tap in the blank part of the page beneath the line and type a new idea into the note. This may help make smaller text blocks, and help organize the thoughts in the note. It's like when you're working with pen and paper you might write an idea, then draw a line across the page, and start a new idea beneath the line. Please contact us by email at support@zymbiotic.com so we can send you a screenshot demonstrating this idea. Please note you need to: type, sketch, then type for this to work, (i.e. it will not work if you type everything and try to go back and draw sketch lines in between already typed text). You may have to re-create those notes with really long sections of text by copy-pasting sections into a new note and sectioning off (e.g. with a sketch line or a photo) at relevant points in the note to make some smaller chunks of text. Please let us know if you are going to recreate the note as we can send some additional tips (please contact us by email for more info). 2. Try multiple notes organized by tag and note linking: Another thought is to use a number of smaller notes, and those can be grouped together with tags. Special note links may help organize the notes as well - read more about that here: https://www.zymbiotic.com/usingmentalnote/notelink Please get in touch with us at support@zymbiotic.com to discuss this further, or for assistance with any issue. Thanks for using Mental Note!

Simple enough

App is simple enough yet has all the tools needed. Nice!

Disappointed! FURIOUS!

Great if you don’t want to forward or export your notes, audio / images.
It appears that there are tremendous technical support issues. Mental Note gives a false impression that the notes get sent, no error messages to the contrary return message and find that 2 months after emailing notes to clients that they were lost in space. I only discovered this because my new boss kept saying he didn’t get the notes which means my accounts from the convention and new clients didn’t either. When uploading to Drop Box it doesn’t keep any format and randomly you get 60 audio messages in your folder which means it’s completely useless. I thought I was being so efficient by sending notes to my accounts within minutes of them leaving the convention showroom from when they toured. No way to contact this Mental Note company, settings doesn’t allow you to troubleshoot.
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Pheww!!

This app helped me out so much this semester! If your in college I recommend this app to you. P.S. if you want to write in detail zoom in and write. Also if your looking to zoom in an image, screen shoot it, crop it in the regular photo app that comes with your iPad and just simply place the image in the note. You can write on it it's so easy.
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Lack of colours

I feel having paid for this app that there actually isn't much to it, bought it too fast, the instruction manual shows great icons, but the app is like Johnny age 5 drawing, also there are only 4 colours available, very little range. Shame

Terrible app

Pl do not waste money on this app, I did and it does not work at all, It's very frustrating, do not not buy this

Excellent lab notebook is getting better and better

This program is a real bargain considering all of the features and capabilities. Pictures, annotations, and notes are critical to documenting lab experiments. And now with the time stamp feature, we can have a chronology of every step in our experiments.

Has Potential - Possibly Only Note-taking App with GPS Locations

Nice app. I'm mostly happy with the program. I LOVE that it embeds GPS and city/state data in my notes so I can search my library by location.

Unfortunately more than half of the time I take a picture from inside the app, it crashes and goes back to the home screen. Please fix this bug.

I wish there were easier ways to scroll while handwriting notes and switching options while taking notes.

Recommended but could be better.
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Flawed

iCloud syncing doesn't work. Please fix this. When you go to a second device it just hangs trying to import the sync data.

For class

If you are using this app for class not good, sometimes the recording will delete on you.

Great app, absolutely, but...

This is a great iPad app, almost exceptional, but for some reason they can't figure out how to make it synch automatically with another iPad,or a mini iPad. You have to do a separate Restore--in other words, it's an unnecessary pain in the neck. Other apps have a seamless synch. If this one did, it would be the #1 app out there.
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Not good

Update is very rare. And u will find somthing which say express speaking.

Not worth the price

I bought this app trying to write on a picture to email or iMessage
You can't iMessage and the email become and attachment not the body of the email, and the result is way to small for reading
Over all not very pleasant design. Very simple app
Don't waist your money

Excellent stat

Very fast and very feature rich.

Needs to be able to edit pictures after placing and resize or move them around. Very good start though.

Great App

This app is great. I really enjoy using it as a teacher in my classroom (great for assessment). I had some issues with the previous version crashing, however the current 3.1.1. version is wonderful! The support that I received was awesome! They helped me through my questions and followed up to ensure that I was satisfied with the app and their support. Great Job! Definitely recommended.
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Better than others

Not perfect, but many good capabilities better than penultimate IMO because

- ability to mix text with handwriting and scripted notes
- ability to embed elements as well as adding a picture as a background for taking notes against a slide
- ability to pinch to zoom to provide detailed free hand at a fine level, makes neater notes

- needs more color options for pen
- would be nice to have text boxes that you can place around a page and mix with freehand drawings
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Just what I need just very laggy

I like this app very much,just a simple note taking app with highlighting and writing as well as exporting to different formats.My biggest gripe is the lag when erasing a highlighted note.it takes all day for my actions to catch up with the app.also when something is highlighted and I decide I want to add more text to that line, the highlight gets moved from the text, past the text which is a big problem I hope the developers take note to this problem.
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Very useful

Having tried a few different note taking apps, this one seems to have most of the best of each of them. There are still a few bugs that need to be worked out, but all-in-all this is a great app.

Good

Good app tho some funnies with mixing typed text and drawings when you can't scroll down past the pic...hopefully updates will fix. Needs to export something other than PDF to Dropbox, useless doing that.

Some suggestions

I tried allot of notebook apps and this is the best one of them
I like that i can type words and draw & also voice recording in the same page ..
But i have some suggestions to develop the app more
1-i suggest to add feature to control the size and the color of the text
2-add feature to move the section and not just deleted

3- add more features in the voice record And pictures
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