Replace notes with an app that goes further

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Notebooks offers many more features than Apple Notes and has the potential to replace Apple’s offering…

IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN How to better organise your notes

YOU’LL NEED Notebooks – Write and Organize (£14.99/$14.99 on the App Store)

Apple has worked on its Notes app consistently over the past few years, and today we have a reliable and easy to use app that will help you to ensure that almost everything you need can be held in one place. The only real downside is the linear and colourless nature of the interface, which can lead to a sense of flatness that does not inspire you to build up your collection of notes.

This is where the Notebooks app from Alfons Schmid offers a completely different feel by using colours, in-depth formatting within documents, and a whole host of other features that you’ll fall in love with very quickly. It becomes part note-taker, part word processor and even a task manager, which makes it truly special.

The colours used in Notebooks mean that it is easier to organise your different books, lifting the entire experience.

Notes can be set as favourites and each folder can be colour-coded so that your library becomes instantly familiar every time you use the app. Familiarity greatly aids productivity.

You can include images in any document and also insert indents and bulleted lists for added utility. It is effectively a word processor within a bigger app solution.

Tables can be included within documents, which is useful for any work-centric or technical documents that you are creating. The app is also particularly well suited to educational tasks.

The settings can feel all consuming, but if you take time to set up the visuals and the formatting t