Outline: Powerful Notes
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | $9.99 | GORILLIZED CORPORATION | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
**OneNote compatible**
Freedom but clear structure. Power features but focus on note-taking. Beautiful UI.
CLOUDS
- Choose where you want to store your notes: Office 365, WebDAV, Dropbox, iCloud, Box, personal OneDrive, or SharePoint Server / Online
- Consider a no-cloud option too: some notes need offline and cloud-free privacy
UI
- Find everything a note needs by the hand: text, lists, tables, handwriting, and drawing
- Put that stuff anywhere in a note and then move around / re-size / edit it all, the way you like
- Personalize notebooks with artful covers
- Keep notes structured in a natural hierarchy of pages, sections, and notebooks (and section groups, yes)
- Access a note fast via recents, search, and note links
ONENOTE'S BEST FRIEND
- Import from OneNote, to give those notes a new start beyond OneDrive or SharePoint
- Export to OneNote, just in case
- Go beyond import/export and do a real time collaboration on notes with colleagues who use OneNote (your iPad and their PCs)
Whether it is your meeting minutes, research, document annotations, or ideas, give those a chance to go beyond the limits.
Your notes are essential and do matter more than formats, storage, platforms, or even the app for note-taking.
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"From a feature set and user interface perspective, Outline is impressive" - TechRepublic.
"Outline for iPad really provides the full editing experience you would have in OneNote or even on your Mac." - iPhone Life.
"Outline a grants you the basic and much-needed capability to create new notebooks and sections" - CNET.
Featured on Product Hunt in "Alternatives to Evernote" collection: producthunt.com/e/alternatives-to-evernote
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Learn more about beyond-the-platform note-taking experience: check out Outline at outline.ws/ipad
Reviews
Almost perfect
Vbo123619
It has a lot on it, but if it could do things like todo lists with reminders that also sync with the calendar will be cool. Also being able to copy and paste different books, tabs, pages etc
Meh
DenNukem
No lasso tool No fine pencil (the one present are too thick) No custom pen color It’s actually missing strokes in my handwriting, OneNote doesn’t. No zoom while drawing. A lot of potential, but I’m going back to OneNote.
Nice App but getting stagnant
Meyers.Family
OneNote has improved so much in many ways. I wanted to like this app, but it seems like it has not really continued to be developed. In their forums, features were promised, but have not appeared. The sync is the worst thing about this app. I have lost pages of information thinking that they had been synced but hadn’t. Using the iMac app and this iOS app doesn’t work well without good synching. The iPad version is also not touch friendly to delete a page, move it, etc. Back to OneNote, but at least this app does write to that format, so I haven’t lost anything.
Dropbox integration is horrible
rus_sel
This app is OK, but the Dropbox piece needs to be redone. It is slow. Painfully slow. It will try to sync data that isn’t for the app, it sorts content in Dropbox illogically so browsing to add a new sync notebook is a nightmare. Slow. Slow. S L O W. I only use it with Dropbox, so I can’t say if it is better on other sync platforms.
Have you been working out, Outline+?
A Dove
Because you're looking better than ever. I've been using Outline+ for months now, and I'm really pleased with the array of tools, markup options, and import/export capabilities. It's great for studies, personal notes, and even combining sketches and photos for a gardening project I'm working on, or the Dungeons & Dragons campaign I’m running. I appreciate the stability of the app, and that it can import OneNote templates while still giving me control of my files. It’s chock full of features, but intuitive.
Love this App!!!
Jdf607
This is possibly the best little notebook app I have ever seen! I used this app all throughout nursing school and it helped me keep my notes so organized!! Attach a little keyboard to your iPad and you have the best mini laptop and easy to use digital notebook. I loved that within each notebook you could have different subjects with as many pages as you wanted. I also love how you can attach the image straight into the note and place it wherever you want. The drawing feature is also awesome! Teacher draws something on the board I could either draw it myself right with the app or I could take a picture on my iPad of what she drew and place the picture within the note!! BEST NOTE TAKING APP EVER!! Also the app syncs itself with wherever else you have your app like your phone.. So if you leave your iPad at home then you can study your notes from your phone (or even take notes on your phone) I only wish I could download it for my MacBook also.
I Enjoy This App...
kammiesmom
Beautiful interface, and the developers are extremely helpful whenever there is need for help -- they seem to really, really want to help. It took me a little while to get syncing between the iPad version and and the Mac version to work, but once I did, with lots of help from the developers, it worked very well.
Apple Pencil support is terrible
BH132435
The app itself seems to be as good OneNote however the pencil support is terrible. Extremely laggy and limited. Given how much I depend on the pencil, I cannot use this app. Deleting it from my Mac and iPad. Really wish I could get my money back.
Great note-taking app!
kcdouglas
I have tried other note-taking apps, and Outline has become the one I settled on for several reasons: 1. Notebook organization: it allows for the creation of notebooks that can contain multiple tabs and multiple pages assigned to each tab. 2. Custom Colorization: being able to assign a custom color to each folder and tab makes it easier to quickly identify a specific folder/tab. 3. Flexible note taking: creating text blocks anywhere on each page allows for more note-taking flexibility. (Text blocks can be grouped and/or arranged in specific orders depending on your organization preferences when taking text notes) 4. UI: Clean and uncomplicated UI allows me to jump right in to my various folders/tabs/pages and get right to work on my projects. 5. Sync-ability: while this feature of being able to sync the application between iOS and laptop has not always performed without issues, when it does work, it adds a level of versatility to my work style that's convenient. Hopefully this feature will be improved in future updates. All in all, Outline has been my app of choice when it comes to note-taking and idea management & organization.
