Wired: No Decent Note-Taking Applications for the iPhone

Filed under: reviews — sync @ 6:44 am October 24, 2008

You would think that there should be a good notetaking app for the iphone, but Wired wines that there still isn’t one:

Wouldn’t it be great if you could create a simple note on your iPhone and, when you get home, have it sync with a note app on your computer? Like I said, it seems easy. But as far as I can tell (and I have been searching on and off for an entire week), nobody is doing it.

Wired complains about the following iPhone note taking apps:

Evernote: “…the iPhone version requires that you are online to access anything, making it pretty much useless, especially for 3G-free iPod Touch users.”

Zenbe: “… a list-making application, and it doesn’t work well for long-form notes.”

iPhone Notes: “…despite OS X Mail having a notes function, the iPhone notes are inexplicably stranded on the iPhone.”

Note Pad: “It looks like the developer put about two minutes of work into the desktop end of the deal. Called Sink, it is one of the fugliest things I have seen on a Mac…”