There was a time when writers carried a notepad and pen with them, or left one on the nightstand for noting those midnight ideas.  Instead of carrying these two items around, the smartphone has become the modern day equivalent.  The standard iOS Notes app does for making very quick notes, but there are better apps out there if you’d like something a little more stylish and with a lot more functionality. Here are ten apps to help writers keep track of story ideas, character arcs, jokes or article headlines while out and about with their iPhone or iPad.  Instead of bundling in the old favorites – doesn’t everyone know that Evernote and Awesome Note are good by now? – we’ve gathered together some you may not have heard of before. Specifically for the iPad, Notes Plus lets you write your notes on the screen using your finger, plus annotate them with Read More

This is a review of the Notefile app for iPhone and iPad, released by JuneCloud, and guess where I’m writing this review? In Notefile, on the iPad, using the wireless bluetooth keyboard. JuneCloud has previously released some killer apps, most notably their Delivery Status app which has become the standard package tracking app in the App Store. Their latest release is Notefile which takes advantage of the awesome cloud syncing functionality built by JuneCloud and uses it for a note taking application. Notefile works as a universal binary on both the iPhone, and iPad and syncs your notes across both devices over the cloud. If you’re a Mac user, you can also download a free Dashboard widget that syncs your Notefile texts to and from your desktop. Finally, if you’re not at your computer, or on a Windows box, you can go to junecloud.com/sync and manage your notes from any web Read More