Noteshelf 3: Digital Notes 4+

A Great Notebook App!

I’ve used the Noteshelf apps for years and they are my absolute fave as a professional writer. It’s easy to set up new notebooks, categorize them by use or need, switch pens and highlighters (a must for anyone who loves color coding), and create brilliant notes that can be accessed with an internet connection. It’s also my absolutely favorite way to read PDFs or review text, making highlighting and note-taking straightforward, simple, and searchable. I’m lucky enough to have neat enough handwriting that I can find almost anything between the bookmark and search features.

The only feature I miss from previous versions is the ability to shrink the pens/highlighter menu to a dot, so it wouldn’t get in the way of writing, but it’s a small thing compared to a vastly improved lasso that makes turning my handwritten notes into a typed draft so easy that my job barely feels like work (when I’m not torturing myself over a blank page, lol). When anyone I know gets an iPad, this is the first app I recommend. Absolutely awesome, and the best app for my work and life.

Ответ разработчика ,

We're thrilled to hear that Noteshelf 3 has been such a valuable tool for your professional writing needs. Your detailed feedback truly highlights the app's versatility and efficiency. We appreciate your loyalty and recommendation to others & thank you for being a part of the Noteshelf community. Noted your request internally for reducing the floating mini toolbar to a dot! We will consider this for future!

Prefer Noteshelf 2

I’ve been using Noteshelf 3 for about 2 weeks now. I use it primarily for work. I had no migration issues from Noteshelf 2 as opposed to other users and the instructions were relatively easy. I even had a question regarding a feature and customer service responded within a few days therefore, my experiences are much better than several other reviewers. I simply prefer Noteshelf 2 to Noteshelf 3 for a couple of simple things that I’m sure they can fix. 1) I can no longer name my bookmarks. I use Noteshelf like a regular book and I do a lot of reading along with note taking. When I use bookmarks, I name them so I can easily look them up. Noteshelf got me through two Master’s degree’s with this feature. 2) Selecting pages: I used to be able to move/re-arrange multiple pages simultaneously. I am no longer able to do that which takes up much more time. 3) I’m unable to touch the 4 squares in the corner, view multiple pages simultaneously (more than 3 or 4), and quickly find the page I am looking for, as I can in Noteshelf 2. Noteshelf 3 added some features like AI, but at a cost of taking away some very simple and useful features. I’ve been using Noteshelf since the original and will now have to consider alternatives as one day I’m sure Noteshelf 2 will all-of-a-sudden stop working with a future update. It was good while it lasted. I’ll keep using if these features are added.

Very hard to work with…

On occasion when loading up the app, it takes ages to load or doesn’t load at all. You have to exit out or power off your device to get it to work again. The app constantly crashes and obviously does not let you access notes. On top of that, it freezes constantly. The notes in the app don’t load either. This app is supposed to work offline, but if you’re offline, the cloud symbol shows on some notes (other notes are unaffected for some reason, I guess depending on the app’s mood?) and will not let you in to the notes. This is a big issue given that I use this app for notes during lectures and it being so fidgety makes me miss out on key points. I really wanted this to work since I had a few issues with another note taking app deleting my files, and not allowing Google Drive backups, but I think I will just switch back to that app and save to cloud, since it never put me through this constant turmoil.
The final nail in the coffin was that it too started to delete my files. Semester-worth of notes gone in an instant. Not sure if they deleted while the app froze and I misclicked trying to get it to work, but nonetheless none of that is my fault, given the faulty-ness of the app. Again, I really wanted this app to work and function like Noteshelf 2 did. I loved that app and was forced to use this one after switching from the other app that let me down as well.

Ответ разработчика ,

We’re truly sorry for the issues you’ve faced, slow loading, crashes, freezing, and lost notes are not the experience we want for our users. We’d like to investigate and help recover your notes if possible. Please contact us via Noteshelf > ⋮ > Settings > Noteshelf Help with details of your device, OS, and recent issues so our team can look into it right away.