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Numbers are this app’s focus and strength—with an understanding that list notation can be later expanded/expounded. Notally recognizes the difference of date entry which of course is not relevant for totaling but important information that may need to be captured e.g. numbers of like items having receiving or expiration dates, creation date or inventory date of note, etc... In spite of the numerous apps available Notally is like taking a breath of fresh air. On-the-fly inventory or individual notation requiring sub- and/or grand totals can be easily captured. And if that isn’t enough, your data can be exported in .csv format for import to applications specific to your end task. The flexibility of this application is something to be admired within the multitude of available apps offering “de-mand”atory so-called “features”, i.e. options. There are tutorials that can be easily found within Notally “settings.” These tutorials are unlike many I’ve seen offered. The tutorials require no sound which can produce a reduction in learning and therefore limit user audience due to: language translation, screen visibility, i.e. closed-captioning and in some cases distraction—e.g., incorrect grammar, accents, background noise, etc... The tutorials aren’t fearful of sharing how-to’s to broaden a user’s knowledge base for further learning; hence, opportunity for deeper application. There are many accolades that can be given to the simplicity of Notally that I dare you to find.

When I have a list of expenses, showing the items and amounts for each one, I can paste the list into this app, and I instantly get the total amount. It saves manually reentering all of the numbers on a calculator! There have been many times when I could have used this.

This is a very unique way of tracking expenses or a list of expenses which allows you to do a “freestyle” approach to entering financial transactions. I really like the CSV export and search functions. If you watch the tutorial, you can see ways to organize this information by using folders such as banks, credit cards, cash, etc. You could also use folders to group sets of folders to get a grand total such as all credit cards. Or, you can set up a folder as a date and include all the transactions for that day and what credit cards were used. Of course, this would cause some redundancy. As for improvements, I would suggest a button to add a date stamp to make it easier entering dates. Also, the CSV file contains a date. It might be helpful if an option was available to automatically display this in each note.