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ColorNote Notepad
Tested version: 1.8.0
Latest version: 3.9.20
Requires Android: from 1.5
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Summary
Every since I had my first G1 Android phone, I always found the Android notepad apps to be reliable and extremely useful. Someone recently suggested I try out ColorNote Notepad as a good notepad replacement. Find out whether this new app can tell its competitors to take a hike and become an Android must-have in today’s test.
Features & Use
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ColorNote Notepad is a text app with the following features:
- Write notes and checklists
- Categorize your notes with different colors
- Set reminders for your notes
- Protect your notes with a password
- Backup all your notes
- Place post-it notes on your desktop
- Share notes
- Access ColorNote Notepad from other apps
- Integrate ColorDict with ColorNote
Bottom Line:
ColorNote works well as a basic notepad, but also let’s you organize and manage your notes and to-do lists. Another neat feature is that fact that you can save news from the browser as a note in ColorNote. Since I’m constantly reading through all sort of Android news, I set-up a green category where all relevant Android info gets stored.
Screen & Controls
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When you start up ColorNote, you can add a note or to-do list by pressing the plus icon at the top of the screen. The button to the right of it changes the way your notes are organized. You can choose to organize:
- Alphabetically
- By color
- By reminder time
- By time
Using the magnifying glass you can search for specific notes in ColorNote.
Pressing the menu-button reveals the following options:
- Add Note
- Category
- Switch View
- Settings
- Backup
- About
You have the following options in Settings:
- Default color
- Default font size
- Default sort option
- Use ColorDict
- Edit title (the first couple of words of your note automatically become the note’s title when this option turned off)
- Auto word selection (replace words with those suggested by the integrated dictionary)
When creating a new note, you have to select between a text and a checklist.
A checklist works well for shopping lists, whereas text can be used for everything else.
At the top of the note you can add a title and select a category color for the note or to-do list. Now you can type in your text or add items to your checklist.
Pressing the menu-button while writing a note gives you these options:
- Color (Select category)
- Lock (Protect with a password, only possible with notes)
- Reminder (Set a reminder time)
- Share (Forward notes to others)
- Discard
Pressing the back button automatically saves your note.
The following options appear when you press the menu-button in a finished note:
- Edit
- Check (mark a task as completed)
- List
- Reminder (change or set up a reminder)
- Share
- Delete
In order to use the dictionary, you must first install ColorDict and then download the dictionaries of your choice. This way you can select individual words in a note by clicking on them. You have to be in edit mode in order to look up words. After selecting a word, it then appears in the search field. Press the magnifying glass in order to look through the dictionary. If you wish to add a note to your homescreen, simply do a long press on the desktop and select the ColorNote widget. Your note then appears as a post-it on your desktop.
Bottom Line:
ColorNote is definitely a notepad with a ton of useful features. It may take a little while to get used to the way ColorNote works, but it should be a breeze once you get the hang of it. After spending some time using ColorNote, I promptly deleted my previous notepad app from my phone.
Speed & Stability
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ColorNote ran smoothly and without any issues.
Price/Performance Ratio
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ColorNote can be downloaded for free from the Android Market.
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Market Comments
Katie, Sep 27, 2012
Prittykat Great app easy to use I love the pin to status bar reminder so I have to look at it every day you can even send your grocery list via text message to your spouse
Rod, Sep 27, 2012
Best of the best Small file size. Very easy to use. Looks and works great. Been using this app for several years. Much better than Evernote - HTC EVO4G
clidastes, Sep 27, 2012
A few recent issues I love this app and especially love the little sticky note widgets to put on your homescreen. The last couple days I have had some problems with syncing between devices. Hopefully it is a temporary problem.
Patrick, Sep 27, 2012
Missing PC client I have been using this for a year, and love the interface on Android, but the missing PC client that was talked about in 2011 is starting to break it for me. Looking at other options...
Amanda, Sep 27, 2012
Flaws abound Uninstalled in less than 24 hours. Didn't save properly, would randomly delete widgets, would create uneditable blank notes... basically buggy and useless.
Definitly on my list of must haves. Just enough features to be useful not so many as to make it confusing