Noteful: Notes & PDF Markup

I have been using Noteful on my IPad since August this year, I wanted to give a really good honest review about this app. This app is really good at keeping you organized and being a stay at home mom and also homeschooling my kids I needed an app that would keep me organized and on top of my day to day life. I found this app through Happy Downloads in August this year and looking for apps that fit my purpose isn’t easy and I wanted to be completely digital this year. With Happy downloads and her planning and hyper links which work well with this app I was able to keep my kids grades organized as well as plan my day to day life easily. And after using the free part for a few days I bought into it and have used it since. I can upload my own planner and homeschool planner on it and being a avid book nerd as well I have my book journaling too on here as well as a scrap book and regular journal so I used a lot from Happy Downloads and this app together and my day to day has been easy going and well maintained I highly recommend this app to anyone who struggles with organizing and staying on top of everything but likes to use their phone or IPad you click into the app and you can organize your day to day swiftly and set up journals however you want with their pre planners and or notebooks and adding stickers is super easy if you want to make it cute while organizing. So this app is awesome and easy to use don’t miss out.

I'm in the process of switching my notes into Noteful from Notability. I also tried Goodnotes which I disliked, and a couple of others. In this app, Noteful, finally I have LAYERS 😂😍😌!!! Also, you can have different papers for different pages in the same note. I just finished a note with three different papers, including one page with lines, and several pages with different colors. I also love the Folders. What they call "Notebooks" I call "Notes" (but can be either). I keep things organized in "Folders" and connect various things across Folders by using "Tags." Very cool. I also really have a lotta fun with the icons. I've been picking different icons for my folders, and then choosing colors for them!!! Love doing that 😍 One complaint though.......... Unfortunately there's a layer locking problem, but hopefully they will change this soon. For example, if I want to change the color of something on Layer 7, they make me stop what I'm working on, and go to all the *other* layers, and LOCK them, BEFORE I go back to Layer 7 and continue working. If I don't do that, the options for changing the color, etc., aren't available. (Even the tutorial makes you do this.) Having used Layers for years in Procreate (as well as Photoshop and Painter), I can't believe that such a weird requirement is intended. Must be a mistake. I look forward to an update that corrects this.

I ran across Noteful by accident during recent pandemonium around GoodNotes/Notability updates that people hated. To be fair, I didn’t really hate either of those updates I didn’t really get the panic, y’all act like the sky is falling because a toolbar was improved, but still, it made me curious when I saw many really positive reactions to Noteful. I was curious enough to investigate, and I’m glad I did!! There are certain little annoyances that almost any app has and the same was true of GN/NB, both of which I went back and forth but never truly loved (actually Zinnia was in that loop for me). Incredibly, Noteful checks all the boxes and adds stuff I wouldn’t have thought of!! I actually love it beyond any of the others I used and that’s saying a lot because I love my journaling enough to pretend I love my notes app no matter how annoying it is but in retrospect overlooking minor inconveniences is not the same as loving an app and guess what? I deserve to love my notes app in addition to, not in spite of, my journals. I would almost take a star off for not being able to create links but, meh. They need to add that though, it’s a huge and as far as I can see the only glaring thing missing. Oh and actually I would like to adjust the shape outline and fill color/transparency separately. That’s all!!