Take Control of Working with Your iPad

Combine Note-Taking Activities

A common way to take notes in a meeting or lecture is to record all the audio for reference, but also make your own textual annotations and comments. Unsurprisingly, lots of iPad apps let you do this, whether you prefer to scribble notes with your fingertip or a stylus, or type them on a virtual or physical keyboard. A few samples:

• All Notes: This iPad app lets you combine writing, drawing, typed notes, and audio recordings with shapes, lists, outlines, and diagrams. (telience.com, $0.99)

• Evernote: Discussed further in the context of saving information from the Web (see Supplement Safari), this universal app lets you type (but not write) notes and record audio, sync your data to the cloud, and view or listen to it ...