Purple Notebook

Name: Purple Notebook
Rating: 4.23169 (587 reviews)

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Purple Notebook

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User Reviews for Purple Notebook

Refused to work properly!

I was hopeful when I downloaded this app because it seamed to have everything I was looking for, but unfortunately my joy was short lived. Immediately I started to notice problems. I started out by making a bookshelf and attempting to add some books to it. I started on the first one and l quickly became frustrated with it. Not long after I had gotten everything how I needed, It deleted all that I had been working on. After typing it all out again I attempted to add photos and it refused to do that as well. I thought maybe it was the particular photo I was trying to use but no. Absolutely nothing would work. I gave up on that and thought maybe there was a problem with that particular book. I attempted to set up a second book and I was not surprised to find that it wouldn’t even add a second book. I went into my settings hoping to find an answer but even after allowing everything that it wanted and trying it all again. It still refused to work. So as a last ditch effort I deleted the app and all it’s filed from my phone and redownloaded it in hopes that it had downloaded wrong the first time. No. That wasn’t it. This app just doesn’t work. I loved the lay out and was truly hopeful but I ended up going with CollaNote which has worked perfectly.

_/(*~*)\_, Feb 21, 2022

Like the idea; very clunky and needs improvement

I love the idea of having virtual shelved notebooks, makes everything neat and tidy, but actually writing in the journals is a complete mess. When adding pictures it scrambles the Text everywhere and sometimes it will just space for no apparent reason or sometimes just won’t save. I have took notes only to come back later and find only the picture and the text next to it was saved. It’s cool, but it defiantly needs some improvement, it doesn’t work very well and that’s driving me and possibly will drive others away as well.

Alex2710, Jan 25, 2022

Pen and pad anyone? Try this one.

While I am not a traditional student, I do love to keep notes when learning something new. I prefer to use pen and paper but am trying to bring myself into the digital record keeping age by implementing an Apple Pencil and iPad for easy sorting, etc. After downloading several apps, mostly the suggested options with in-app purchases, I came across this one for Purple Notebook. Right off the top, it’s different from the others. It’s the closest app I can find to using an actual notebook with the notable exception that Apple’s “scribble” functionality is the default turning your handwritten notes into text. I would prefer to have the option to turn that on/off at will. I will dig around the app some more to see if I am missing that. Other than that, I appreciate that this app is not full of in-app purchases or requiring a subscription. It does what it says it does without extra clutter. I cannot wait to see what comes down the pipes from these developers in the future. Thank you to the team! Best wishes.

Jiubreyn, Mar 27, 2021

Really good

Its really nice to use so far. I’ve been using it for my tarot cards. I just got my tarot cards so its been helping me learn their meanings. But when school starts up again (after winter break) I will definitely be using it for school as well. In this app you get to make a book shelve for all the subjects you want. On the shelf you can have multiple books (not sure how many yet) so you can have a book for each topic in that subject. Plus its completely free. Or you can use it for your years in school like how they show you in the example

Karmiyah or Mia, Dec 29, 2021

Will not save your notes

Let me start this with the things I like, I like the idea of having the notes look like a noteook on shelves but other than that this app lacks everything I need in a note taking app. Now for the bad things, this app has only saved my notes I've taken for two different classes out of my 6 classes and one of them that did save the next time I went back into it and continued notes for the class not only did it not save what I wrote that class but all my notes for that class disappeared when I next went into it making it so that I had no notes for my first week in all classes except one. Another thing that I hate about this app is the sizing, you can only have 4 sizes 3 of them being different size headers and the paragraph one being far too small. Lastly the bold/color/italics thing on this works ok except you have to go back up and click out of the lttle bar and then go back and click where you left off to begin typing again which while it may not seem too bad it is very annnoying while trying to keep up with notes in college when your professor goes faster than you can manage with this app; not that that matters anyways because all your notes will be gone the next day since it doesn't save.

Meg17523, Sep 03, 2021

Just how I imagined

I just thought about an app that has different notebooks for different subjects, and just with a small search I’ve found this app. Purple notebook is exactly how I imagined a digital notebook app to be like. The organization is great with the shelf and the different notebooks in that shelf. Best of all to me is that this app works on multiple devices and upgrades notes right away, so if I write notes on my iPad or phone, I could continue on my Mac which is so easy. I haven’t found anything wrong with this application yet and I hope not to. Just keep updating it and making it more better.

musi//user, Sep 02, 2021

Good Concept but Very Flawed

I really wanted this app to be good. After looking through all of the note taking apps, this was my first choice because it seemed simple and streamlined. The reality is, this app is unpolished and unfinished and has numerous glaring problems. Here are 4 examples that I discovered during my first day of use: Sometimes the text I typed did not save to the note. I would change to a different note, and when I came back, everything I had added was gone and it reverted to a previous state.The bold/italic/underline shortcuts would be very efficient and useful if they only applied to the text between the marks. Unfortunately, if you use them on a couple of words, it locks in place and begins applying the effect on all future words. You can't even remove this effect by clicking the format icons at the top! You have to re-type the shortcut on some new text to unlock the effect.When you copy and paste from a document outside Purple Notebook, the text will be oddly spaced and distorted in the app, and vice versa.Finally, when your text reaches the bottom of the app window, it dips below the edge at the bottom in such a way that you cannot see what you are typing. To prevent this, you have to keep extra blank lines at the bottom of your notes to "push" the bottom edge away as you type.Sorry. I wanted to like it, but its just frustrating. Go with a notetaking app that offers a polished experience without so many bugs.

Plastictastic, Aug 18, 2021

Everything I’ve ever wanted but

As the title says, this app is everything I’ve been looking for, but unfortunately sometimes my notes get deleted randomly even after clicking “Done”. I’ve tested it with some smaller notes and have seen that even leaving a note on edit and exiting out of the app, it’ll stay saved whereas sometimes I’ve always saved it and it’ll be gone when I next check. I use this app to write stories and poems so this is very concerning to me and I’ve taken to making screenshots of everything I write. Please help I refuse to use a different app… this one really has everything I’ve ever needed!

Seelich, Mar 01, 2022

So close to perfect!

This app is ideal for me. I love the formatting options and the ability to add images, and I especially love the individual books on individual shelves; that's extraordinarily helpful. The only issues I've had are that I seem to be unable to format anything past the first page in a notebook, and on one occasion, my notes in one book deleted themselves entirely. Fortunately it was nothing too important, but it does make me worry a little. Still, I would absolutely recommend Purple Notebook. :)

will.jpg, Jun 23, 2021

Should have been Higher

Honestly I love this app and the ONLY thing I would have added is maybe a few more additional colors to write in. Otherwise it's amazing - EXCEPT when the notes don't save. A few times now I have lost about an hour's worth of notes. At first I didn't realize that's what had happened, but after the second time I started saving the notes on the notes page as well so I don't risk losing my work. So essentially now I'm writing it twice because I actually really like this app. Please fix the saving bug!

xCarolzinhax, Aug 10, 2022

Description

Here are just **some** of our features (there’s always more to come): • Create your shelf filled with a whole bunch of notebooks, be it for college, high school, work or your personal life. Create all of your notes inside of your notebooks, just like in real life. • Use our powerful markdown or all of our shortcuts that will help you give your notes life: highlight, bold, italic, underline, font color, font type, font size, bullets and always more to come. • Take a photo of what’s going on in your class and put it inside of your note fast and easy, with the use of our smart technology that transcripts text from images. • Use all of your creativity by positioning freely images and text-boxes inside of your note. • Use iCloud to keep all your notes stored securely in the cloud and updated everywhere. Jot down a note on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and it will instantly be available on your other devices. • Share your notes with friends and family!

You can create a pdf from any or all of your notes. • Quickly add photos to a note using the camera or photo library. • Use Apple’s powerful Scribble to quickly jot down notes on your iPad. • Don’t forget to use multitasking, drag and drop images from other websites and put them inside of our app, it’s fast and easy. • Use search or even Spotlight to quickly find notes, notebooks and shelfs. • Start new notes instantly without having to create a shelf or notebook before then. • Navigate between notes by scrolling or by using our index. Our goal is to best assist all students with the technology we have in our hands. Made for students, by students.