Once upon a time I used a paper planner. One of the benefits of the planner was that if you didn't have planner on you, you could jot notes down on a sticky pad for later placement in your planner.
After moving to a PDA, this is one of the things I missed, being able to jot down a quick note. I recently had the chance to review BugMe! Notepad . If you haven’t tried it, give it a try. I tried several similar applications, but was really surprised when I found out how powerful BugMe! NotePad is.
Not only are you able to take scrollable notes (for those long lists :-) ), create sketches, and more, but you can import a picture (i.e. map, etc.) and make notes on the picture. And here’s where having BugMe! NotePad on a PDA beats the socks off the old paper planner. No paper planner (that I know about) was able to set alarms for the old sticky notes. BugMe! Allows you to set alarms in a very easy, but powerful way. You can either choose a time increment to count down, or choose ‘Custom’ and select the time for the alarm to go off
If you have a Smartphone, BugMe! NotePad is much more powerful. On my Treo 650 I have the ability to take a picture by going to Camera from the BugMe application, save the picture and BugMe! opens back up with the picture available for you scribbling pleasure. Then you can save the file as a .jpg, select ‘Send’ from the menu, and send it off to someone with a very clearly marked way of demonstrating just what you want them to see.
Check out the long list of some of the features, Note the very handy ‘Screen Shot’ feature and even voice notes for the Treo 650. This app is packed full of handy features!!
• Support for long, scrollable notes
• Quick and flexible alarm setting
• Import and annotate any photo or picture from memory card
• Import and annotate screen shots from any Palm OS application
• Full set of drawing tools: line, shapes, fill, etc.
• Full color support, for ink or backgrounds
• Treo 650: Voice notes
• Drag and drop text editing, with clipboard support
• Save notes and pictures to memory card
• Send notes via email, MMS, bluetooth and IR
• One-tap dial of phone numbers, email addresses and web URLs
• Support for extended screens (portrait and landscape)
• Capture and annotate pictures directly from camera (Zire 72 only)
• Includes high quality bundled clip art set
• Includes 13 bundled wav alarm sounds
• PC Desktop Viewer (separate purchase required)
• Requires Palm OS 5.0 and above
