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CNET Editors' review
Catch Notes is a robust, yet simple notepad app that lets you keep track of your ideas using text notes, voice notes, camera notes, and more. Use it in conjunction with a free Catch.com account to sync your notes to the cloud and access them from anywhere.
The Catch Notes interface is super clean and refreshingly intuitive, with all of its basic functions laid out as icons on the Home screen. My notes brings you to all of your work. Tags lets you search your notes using hash-designated keywords. Settings lets you customize certain features. And the rest of the icons are dedicated to the different types of notes you can create: Text note, Camera note, Gallery note (for pictures from your gallery), Voice note, and Reminder note (for alarm notifications). For Catch.com account holders, there's also a small refresh icon in the top corner, which backs up photos and notes to the Web site.
Although there are different icons for each note type, you can really add any media to any of your notes. The icons are there just to get you started. So within any note, you can hit attach, then record a voice message, choose a photo from your gallery, or fire up your camera for a new photo. You can also share your work via Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or any of your phone's other installed applications.
If you're a frequent note-taker you can enable the optional widget, which gives you a one-touch way to create text, voice, or camera notes right from your Home screen. There's also a nifty password-protect option to lock the app from unauthorized users.
Overall, Catch Notes is a great note-taker that impressed us with its clean, icon-based interface, and its ability to handle voice recordings and pictures, along with traditional text notes. However, we did think it was missing formatting options for text. It would have been nice, for instance, to create checklists, or at the very least, bullet points. But even without the formatting, it still performs solidly, and is a worthwhile download, especially if you're willing to set up a free companion account on Catch.com.
Publisher's Description
From Catch:
Recommended by:TechCrunch: "10 Apps All New Android Users Should Check Out", OReilly Media: "Best Android Apps, The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders, PCWorld: "10 Hot Honeycomb Apps for Business" and Datamation: "50 Must-Have Android Apps".Catchis a free, feature-packed app that allows you to capture your ideas and experiences across all your devices with secure auto-syncing to the cloud.Capture photos, jot notes, record voice memos, map your location and attach reminders.And now private and shared Streams lets you gather your notes into collections which can be used as a personal private folders or shared as a private, collaborative spaces.With Streams you get:- A fast, lightweight platform that provides flexibility for mobile users to keep their Streams private or share and collaborate with others- Easy management of shared Streams for inviting and managing contributors- Up to three streams for freeKey features:-Access features quickly with an updated dashboardon smaller devices-Add text, multiple voice recordings and multiple images to any note- Backup notes for freeacross allAndroid and iOSdevicesandonthe web with secure sync to Catch.com- Improved ability to filter notes by chronology, multiple tags, stars and more-Full support for tablets running Android 3.0+ for a wide-screen experience- Email notes in by sending them tonote@catch.com-Use inline #tagging to organize and find your notes easily- Scan product barcodes to capture gift ideasUpgrade to Catch Pro to attach PDF/Office files, to create up to 10 streamsand upload up to 1GB of new content each monthor to Catch Premierforup to 50 streams and 5GBof new monthly content.Learn more:https://catch.com/learn-more/why/Recent changes:Organize private notes into StreamsShare notes with others you invite via StreamsMulti-filter notes by chronology, tags, and moreThe newly-added permission (read contacts) is so Catch can allow you to pick email addresses from your existing Contacts list when inviting people to your Streams.Content rating: Low Maturity
What's new in this version: Organize private notes into StreamsShare notes with others you invite via StreamsMulti-filter notes by chronology, tags, and moreThe newly-added permission (read contacts) is so Catch can allow you to pick email addresses from your existing Contacts list when inviting people to your Streams.
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