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    Note Taking Apps for Tablets

    When it comes to jotting down ideas, we want the quickest, easiest option — and these days that means turning to technology. As PC Mike Wendland reports, using one a fancy note-taking app can make sure your valuable thoughts don’t disappear into the ether. Notability lets you combine multiple inputs, including typing, sketching, handwriting and photos, in a single place. It also supports annotating PDFs. Notes can be shared via email, and cloud-based services including AirDrop, Google Drive and Dropbox. The app is $8.99 for iOS. GoodNotes 5 turns an iPad into digital paper. Take handwritten notes in digital notebooks, on imported PDF, PowerPoint, and Word documents, or on images…

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    Best organizing and note taking apps

    “The Cloud” has changed a lot about the way we use computers and applications for our mobile devices but perhaps nowhere as much as in the way we keep track of things and organize our documents and notes. Here are my favorite two tools for remembering everything he needs to remember in his digital world. Hands down, Evernote has long been the best tool for keeping track of things you don’t want to forget.  But these days, the best has gotten better with new tools and helps that work on computers and mobile devices on the Apple, Android and Kindle platforms. Now there are a slew of companion apps that…