In the Trunk: Organizing with Awesome Note

Partners | 06 Aug 201006 Aug 10 | By David Pierce

39 comments

It’s happened. I’ve gotten to the point where if something isn’t on my phone, there’s no chance of me remembering it. If it’s not in my calendar, I won’t be there. If it’s not on my task list, there’s no chance of it getting done.

Evernote is always at my fingertips, helping me remember and access all my thoughts and information, and I was looking for a way to better integrate that with my task-oriented life. For example, I’m going grocery shopping next week (I know this, because it’s on my calendar)—what’s on the shopping list? Or, I’m going to a party on Friday—what’s their address, and what am I supposed to bring?

Awesome Note to the rescue. Awesome Note is an iPhone app in the Evernote Trunk that handles all those questions and more. It’s a note-taking, task-managing, calendar-handling app that syncs with Evernote, so all of your information is available whenever you need it.

Why this is cool

Awesome Note lets you take notes, organize them by folder and sync them to Evernote. Individual notes can also be exported from one app to another. For me, it’s the sync that is the most impressive. Awesome Note creates folders called “[aNote] YourFolderName” in your Evernote account, and any notes that you place into those folders are automatically synced between the two applications.

Awesome Note also integrates Evernote with your task list and calendar, giving you the option to create tasks and events and attach Evernote notes to them. One glance at your calendar or your task list, and you’ll know all the information you need to get going.

You can transfer notes to other Awesome Note users via Bluetooth, and you can email or text notes and tasks to anyone. It’s a great-looking, super-customizable app, as well. You can have it look like anything from a pad of paper to a chalkboard, all for your note taking pleasure.

Get Things Done in the Trunk

There are all kinds of productivity applications available in the Evernote Trunk, from apps like Awesome Note to tools like Nozbe and Reqall. Each one hooks into your Evernote account in useful ways. Explore the Trunk to find your favorite.

Evernote for Developers

If you’re interested in developing an application that run on the Evernote platform, make sure to check out the Evernote Developer page.

Matt

Oh look. Another iOS application that looks wicked cool, supported on the iPhone and iPad but they charge you for both versions instead of making a universal binary.
Jenny

Hello,

1) Can I set alert to ring multiple times for my event, for example, if I set my event from 9:00AM to 10:00AM, I want to have sound alert between 9:00AM and 10:00AM until I dismiss it?

2) Can I change alert ringtone in Awesome notes?

3) Can I have multiple selections for the alert, for example, to set it once, twice ,etc..?

Thanks a lot,
Jenny
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Jenny, I recommend getting in touch with Awesome Note directly. I’m not sure if their team monitors out blog.
Sarah

if only the syncing actually WORKED! i can sync 10 times and my notes won’t show up in evernote. I realize its probably an awesomenote problem. They aren’t the most responsive bunch. I just wish it worked because using evernote for everyday notes is just too cumbersome with my large database and I really enjoy the UI of awesomenote and the simple folders. But my notes rarely get synced.
Christoph

It seems that there is great potential in the collaboration of Evernote and awesome note, but as far as I can see at this point, the promise that all your data from awesome note can be backed up and restored from Evernote is simply not true. I backed up a test note from awesome net which included an image and the image did not show up in Evernote. There was not even a placeholder telling me that there should be an image here.

Apart from that, as earlier commentators have remarked, to-do lists are flattened into plain text and it is unclear t me what happens to the formats (priority, reminders) that awesome note supports when they are sent to Evernote. In brief, t seems way to early to get excited about Evernote and awesome note working together, because they aren’t. I hope that this will change, but at this point it would be fair to mention these problems. And yes, I think this is also a responsibility of Evernote as long as they are featuring the app in their Trunk and on their blog.)
Kris

Help! I seem to have lost my audio notes after syncing among devices.

I like Evernote very much and use it on my Android phone, iPod Touch, and OSX. And I love the Android widget very much and have used it to take and sync photos and audio notes. I also use Awesome Note on my iPod Touch and appreciate how I can sync my notes with Evernote.

However, in syncing my devices, I seem to have lost some audio I recorded. Here’s what happened: I recorded interviews on Evernote on Android; synced the Evernote app on OSX; In Evernote OSX, I placed the notes in notebooks that synced with Awesome notes. After syncing all my devices, the audio attachments have disappeared, even though the headers and text are still there.

Is there any way to recover the audio notes? Thanks.
http://www.cloudproductivity.net Jeremy Roberts

I find myself looking for justification on paying for Awesome Note on both iPhone and iPad, but I keep coming up short, especially if:
- web clips don’t render correctly in it
- todo lists don’t show up as expected in both apps
- it seems like I does everything Evernote does

I simply use Evernote, Wunderlist and my calendar and in happy

Awesome Note does *look* very cool though.
Dayrl Hern

This is awesome iv’e used Awesome Note. But this takes it to next level

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