The Best Note Taking & Cloud Hosting Apps

If you still haven’t made the jump, perhaps now is the time.

Note taking apps have been here for a long time, however it is thankfully to Apple’s revolutionary iPad devices and general breakthrough when it comes to portable, light-weight laptops, that a lot of attention has been invested into creating the fastest and most efficient note-taking applications, which now serve both college students and professionals. As it is almost impossible to cover every single one, here is a list of a few that you should definitely check out if you are looking into jumping onto the digital note-taking train.

MS OneNote

OneNote is essentially the Google Drive of Windows OS devices. It is a very robust note-taking app that functions as well as a sharing services through which you can work on your projects with other users. Besides that you can do every other action such as taking a photo and sharing it along with the entire album if you like. It may also function as your personal organizer with its very detailed calendar and to-do lists, which should alone be enough to elevate your productivity, even if freehand note taking isn’t your thing!

Evernote

Evernote is the most all-round note-taking app out there as it is so much more than that. It helps you make notes, create entire albums of files and photos, and sort them based on many criteria, including your location. The fact that it works on virtually any mobile device as well as both Mac and Windows operating systems makes sure you files are always with you on the go. To make things better, it’s incredibly easy to export your files, making note sharing a fast experience, no matter if you are looking into uploading study notes online, or simply sharing a photo album of your recent trip with your family. 

Dropbox

Dropbox sticks out here due to the fact that it is a monolith compared to other apps with the incredible amount of storage it offers free of charge. While it may look like a cloud platform file file storage and backup, dropbox is much more than that. Its open nature when it comes to third party apps makes it a sort of a nexus for any media files you need with you on the go. You may use it to store videos and have a dedicated editor on your devices, or have an entire library worth of documents along with a text editor app such as PlainText. The possibilities are pretty much endless here.

The Analog

No, this is not a new app you haven’t heard of. We are talking about the old, and the most ancient way of taking notes – with paper and pen. Sometimes you just cant rely on your gadgets to get the job done and may need to resort to the old fashioned, yet most productive way to capturing thoughts. It’s pretty cheap, and sharing is quite easy too!