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Originally Posted by Penforhire
While I agree with you 100% on the colors & fonts of the Notes app (ugh!) I have to stick up for one awesome Notes feature. With absolutely zero effort, any note I write on my iPhone, iPad or MacBook Air is available to me on the other devices.
Yes, other apps have cloud drivers as well. I use SugarSync, Google Drive, and MS Skydrive. But nothing syncs with as low of an effort as the built-into-all-Apple-devices Notes app.
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I very much disagree, and one reason for that is already included in the particular wording of your praise: "all-
Apple-devices".
Please take a look at Nebulous Notes, Penforhire. It not only syncs
faster than Apple's native Notes app, but it's a lot more
versatile, because it's
cross-platform. It's Dropbox-based, so any note I make in Nebulous Notes, I can instantly pick up on
either my MacBook
or my Windows desktop machine,
and I can pick it up and continue editing it there with the
text editor of my choice (EditPlus for me), not being restricted (once again) to Apple's Notes app, which is just as lame on the desktop as it is in iOS. And let's not even mention the superior, professional editing tools offered by Nebulous Notes and EditPlus, as opposed to Apple's Notes, which is the absolutely barrest bare-bones plain-vanilla text editor one can possibly imagine -- but at least until iOS 6, it
looked good. Starting from iOS 7, it's not just feature-poor, but also unspeakably ugly. Please note that just because Nebulous Notes and EditPlus offer superior, professional text-editing tools, this does not make them in any way cluttered compared to the Notes app; they are perfectly light-weight editors in which, if you so desire, you can even turn off the display of all toolbars so that (similarly to the native Notes app) only the editing window remains.
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Originally Posted by jswinden
Reminders and Calendar also sync effortlessly.
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I find both Reminders and Calendar by Apple useless (which is not surprising), and again: there are much better iOS apps accomplishing the same things that
also sync effortlessly. For me, this is
Toodledo for tasks, and
Calendars 5 for calendars. And yes, colour coding of various calendar events does matter: the Calendars 5 app does not only show a coloured dot next to the event title, but colours the entire event field in the colour you specify, making your calendar views that much clearer. Apple's Calendar, in its typically dumb way, displays all calendar events in the same dull grey colour... I guess no bad software design choice by Apple should surprise anyone any longer; but iOS 7 is definitely a new low. I admire Apple as a ground-breaking
hardware company, but their
software almost universally sucks. iOS used to be the bright spot among Apple's software offerings, but the hideous make-up of iOS 7 now makes it easy to forget about the good things iOS offers to the users.