Android equivalent of Apple 'Notes'

EbookNovice · 02-28-2014, 08:50 PM

Hi all I've been using Apple's built-in 'Notes' app on OSX Mavericks as well as my iPod Touch and I love it because it's easy and fast for me to create notes that I can look at later. However, I just bought an Android tablet and iCloud isn't available for it.

Also, I'm wanting to begin using a cloud photo sharing service/app so that I can look at my photos on all of my devices: an iPod Touch, Mac, Windows and Android tablet.

Please help me!

miki2 · 03-01-2014, 09:44 AM

OI Notepad is an easy and practical note app and it's free.

As for photo sharing, nothing better than Dropbox and the automatic camera upload to the cloud; it really is great but of course you need Dropbox on all your devices to view the photos.

Teknikal · 03-01-2014, 11:43 AM

Google Keep and Google+ photos are the official ones but I don't use either.

NoName · 03-01-2014, 12:30 PM

Write Now - Notepad is an app that lets you open from a hotspot on your screen so you can write notes on top of whatever application you're using at the time or from any screen. Like popup sticky notes.

Sweetpea · 03-02-2014, 02:24 AM

I'm spoiled with my HTC and it's Evernote version... you can install that on several platforms, including Windows.

As sharing goes, I'd say dropbox too.

cvkemp · 03-02-2014, 09:47 AM

I also love evernote and it works on almost ever platform.

glnnjnsn · 03-02-2014, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teknikal

Google Keep and Google+ photos are the official ones but I don't use either.

I use Google Keep - it's very basic compared to most other note-taking/keeping apps I've used (including Evernote). I'm sticking with it for now partly because I don't need all the bells and whistles of other apps, and partly because of hopes that it will one day integrate with Google Tasks and/or Calendar (both of which I use) like it currently does with Google Now.

DDRacer · 02-07-2019, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by miki2

OI Notepad is an easy and practical note app and it's free.

As for photo sharing, nothing better than Dropbox and the automatic camera upload to the cloud; it really is great but of course you need Dropbox on all your devices to view the photos.

Thanks! OI Notepad was just what I needed!

stwoodsus · 02-08-2019, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glnnjnsn

I use Google Keep - it's very basic compared to most other note-taking/keeping apps I've used (including Evernote). I'm sticking with it for now partly because I don't need all the bells and whistles of other apps, and partly because of hopes that it will one day integrate with Google Tasks and/or Calendar (both of which I use) like it currently does with Google Now.

I agree about the power of Google and I am using Google Keep.
For a simple Note Taking App I used Color Note.

Jmirko · 02-10-2019, 12:13 PM

My vote goes to Google Keep for notes. I used to use Note Everything, which was a great offline option, but sharing was not possible, and there was no desktop client. I then migrated to Evernote, but when they restricted the free version, I moved to Keep. I never liked EN's cluttered interface anyway. I liked Keep so much that I recently moved my to do's there as well, using colours to differentiate them from notes. Keep is not the world's best todo app, but for notes I think it's great.

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maximus83 · 02-12-2019, 04:23 PM

Recommend trying Microsoft's Onenote. It works fantastic on Android, iOS, and PC, been using it for years and it finally replaced everything else I used to use, including Evernote and Google Keep.

It also kind of depends how you plan to use the app. For example, if I were just doing short little checklists, reminders, brief unrelated scraps of info, etc., Google Keep is great at that and easy to use. If you need a more complex, note-taking app in which you can structure the content with a visual/logical layout, and with tags, you probably want something like Onenote. It's great for academics, for collecting research from many sources, for writing, and for collaborating among teams (multiple team members and view and collaboratively edit the same page at the same time). I basically use Onenote now for everything. I add Onenote web clipper add-in's to the Chrome and Firefox browsers I use, this lets me clip all or part of any web article (the URL, or the actual contents) directly to my Onenote notebook in the cloud, which then auto-syncs across all my devices.

Jmirko · 02-15-2019, 01:18 AM

OneNote is nice, but it doesn't have labels/tags on the mobile version, which is why I went with Google Keep instead.
Keep lacks the hierarchy structure of OneNote, but multi-dimensional labeling is more important for me, as I find that items tend to belong to more than one category. Incidentally, this is the biggest issue with the Windows folder structure as well, and we recently moved all our work files to Sharepoint which allows labelling.

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cd2013 · 03-01-2019, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maximus83

Recommend trying Microsoft's Onenote. It works fantastic on Android, iOS, and PC, been using it for years and it finally replaced everything else I used to use, including Evernote and Google Keep.
.

I agree. I stopped using Evernote because

OneNote is free for Microsoft Office licence holders (not sure if you don't have an office licence)

and because I find OneNote much better at handling notes in a hierarchical structure. This last bit was crucial for me: navigating and finding stuff among multiple evernote notebooks was much less efficient.

Evernote is, instead, much better for web clippings.

henry45 · 03-02-2019, 03:40 PM

Im using Google Keep , It is very simple & free.

Anthem · 03-02-2019, 03:59 PM

Another vote here for Google Keep. It is fantastic. Has all kinds of useful features and you can collaborate with other Keep users on it. On my desktop computers (Windows and Ubuntu) I use Chrome to also set Keep up as a web app that I can simply run like any other app on my computer. I like using it that way. All of your Keep stuff is available if you ever need to log in using someone else's computer as well since it is all cloud based.

For photo management and sharing I vote for Google Photos. I use it on both my Android and iOS devices for mobile and once again as a web app on all of my desktop computers. Tons of features. Available everywhere. Easy sharing. Great automated features.

02-28-2014, 08:50 PM	#1
EbookNovice Banned Posts: 237 Karma: 28084 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: none	Android equivalent of Apple 'Notes' Hi all I've been using Apple's built-in 'Notes' app on OSX Mavericks as well as my iPod Touch and I love it because it's easy and fast for me to create notes that I can look at later. However, I just bought an Android tablet and iCloud isn't available for it. Also, I'm wanting to begin using a cloud photo sharing service/app so that I can look at my photos on all of my devices: an iPod Touch, Mac, Windows and Android tablet. Please help me!

03-01-2014, 11:43 AM	#3
Teknikal Fanatic Posts: 574 Karma: 5264318 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Belfast Device: Sony T1, Note Pro 12.2, Honor 10	Google Keep and Google+ photos are the official ones but I don't use either. Last edited by Teknikal; 03-01-2014 at 11:45 AM.

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03-01-2014, 09:44 AM	#2
miki2 Connoisseur Posts: 50 Karma: 1271879 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7", Nexus 7 (2013),	OI Notepad is an easy and practical note app and it's free. As for photo sharing, nothing better than Dropbox and the automatic camera upload to the cloud; it really is great but of course you need Dropbox on all your devices to view the photos.

03-01-2014, 12:30 PM	#4
NoName Zealot Posts: 141 Karma: 659536 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Hawaii Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, HTC Evo LTE	Write Now - Notepad is an app that lets you open from a hotspot on your screen so you can write notes on top of whatever application you're using at the time or from any screen. Like popup sticky notes.

03-02-2014, 02:24 AM	#5
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	I'm spoiled with my HTC and it's Evernote version... you can install that on several platforms, including Windows. As sharing goes, I'd say dropbox too.

03-02-2014, 09:47 AM	#6
cvkemp Loving life Posts: 1,430 Karma: 7991496 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Hot Springs Village, Arkansas Device: PaperWhite 6 SE, Fire HD8	I also love evernote and it works on almost ever platform.

02-10-2019, 12:13 PM	#10
Jmirko Recovered collector Posts: 398 Karma: 1555507 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Vienna, Austria Device: see signature	My vote goes to Google Keep for notes. I used to use Note Everything, which was a great offline option, but sharing was not possible, and there was no desktop client. I then migrated to Evernote, but when they restricted the free version, I moved to Keep. I never liked EN's cluttered interface anyway. I liked Keep so much that I recently moved my to do's there as well, using colours to differentiate them from notes. Keep is not the world's best todo app, but for notes I think it's great. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

02-12-2019, 04:23 PM	#11
maximus83 Nameless Being	Recommend trying Microsoft's Onenote. It works fantastic on Android, iOS, and PC, been using it for years and it finally replaced everything else I used to use, including Evernote and Google Keep. It also kind of depends how you plan to use the app. For example, if I were just doing short little checklists, reminders, brief unrelated scraps of info, etc., Google Keep is great at that and easy to use. If you need a more complex, note-taking app in which you can structure the content with a visual/logical layout, and with tags, you probably want something like Onenote. It's great for academics, for collecting research from many sources, for writing, and for collaborating among teams (multiple team members and view and collaboratively edit the same page at the same time). I basically use Onenote now for everything. I add Onenote web clipper add-in's to the Chrome and Firefox browsers I use, this lets me clip all or part of any web article (the URL, or the actual contents) directly to my Onenote notebook in the cloud, which then auto-syncs across all my devices.

02-15-2019, 01:18 AM	#12
Jmirko Recovered collector Posts: 398 Karma: 1555507 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Vienna, Austria Device: see signature	OneNote is nice, but it doesn't have labels/tags on the mobile version, which is why I went with Google Keep instead. Keep lacks the hierarchy structure of OneNote, but multi-dimensional labeling is more important for me, as I find that items tend to belong to more than one category. Incidentally, this is the biggest issue with the Windows folder structure as well, and we recently moved all our work files to Sharepoint which allows labelling. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

03-02-2019, 03:40 PM	#14
henry45 Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Illinois, United States (US) Device: Kindle Paperwhite & eBoox	Im using Google Keep , It is very simple & free.

03-02-2019, 03:59 PM	#15
Anthem Guru Posts: 704 Karma: 1622328 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle Oasis, OnePlus Nord	Another vote here for Google Keep. It is fantastic. Has all kinds of useful features and you can collaborate with other Keep users on it. On my desktop computers (Windows and Ubuntu) I use Chrome to also set Keep up as a web app that I can simply run like any other app on my computer. I like using it that way. All of your Keep stuff is available if you ever need to log in using someone else's computer as well since it is all cloud based. For photo management and sharing I vote for Google Photos. I use it on both my Android and iOS devices for mobile and once again as a web app on all of my desktop computers. Tons of features. Available everywhere. Easy sharing. Great automated features.

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