Mac: We’re huge fans of Notational Velocity as a syncing note-taker, and nvALT beefs it up even more with things like a widescreen-optimised view, custom colour schemes, a menu bar-only mode and lots more.
Android: Photo-taking and annotation app Skitch has added a new feature that lets you annotate maps and send them to your friends — perfect for giving directions or pointing out specific locations with a picture message.
This morning, Apple announced that the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Mountain Lion, is scheduled to be available later this year. It’s filled with cool new features, but who wants to wait to get them? Here’s how you can get the best features of Mountain Lion right now.
Android: Microsoft’s popular note taking and organisation app, OneNote, is now available on Android, so you can have your notes with you wherever you go.
If you consume a lot of media across a variety of formats, there’s a good chance you’ll forget what you thought about a book, movie, game or anything else. To help you remember, you can take philosopher Michel de Montaigne’s advice and write small notes to yourself in your collection.
Your professor says an awful lot of things during class. You can’t possibly write it all down, nor should you. To take the best notes (and ace your exams), pay attention to your professor’s cues — conscious and subconscious.
Android: The Dolphin browser for Android is already our pick for the best web browser for Android, but today it got much more useful. Dolphin users can now download Skitch and Evernote add-ons for their browser that make it easy to jump between the Dolphin browser and the Skitch and Evernote apps for Android.
Chrome: Text This To Me is a Chrome add-on that allows you to quickly send yourself SMS messages from your browser with links, notes and other snippets of text with a single click. Whether you just want to send yourself a URL to open on your phone’s browser, or you want to remind yourself to pick up the milk on the way home, Text This To Me gives you a quick way to do it without installing anything on your device.
Mac: Want to store short notes in the Mac OS X menubar? Synced across multiple computers? With search capabilities? That’s what Scrawl can do for you.
Our favorite capture-and-annotate tool, Skitch, is now available on the iPad with a great touch-based interface for quick and easy image-based notes.
