Research+and+Information+Fluency

Note Taking and Research Apps

// Note Taking //
|| MindMash is a brainstorming & note-taking application for the iPad. It allows users to create an ideas mash-up by combining and manipulating text, images & drawings on the iPad in a visual and free-form manner. || ScratchWork allows you to take notes and browse the web while having the two side by side to avoid back and forth flipping. It also provides a custom math keyboard. || Notability 4.0 is the first truly integrated note-taking app for iPad. Standing on a framework that automatically links notes with audio recordings, Notability supports all of your note-taking needs -- handwriting, PDF annotation, word processing, and more work together seamlessly allowing you to create comprehensive, beautiful notes, quickly and simply. || PaperDesk is a simple, easy-to-use notebook replacement made specifically for the iPad. The entire design goal behind PaperDesk was to mimic, as closely as possible, a simple pad of paper with no unnecessary frills. Yet it still boasts features that enable quick and responsive note taking. PaperDesk allows you to keep a "Desk" full of your notebooks. Each notebook has an unlimited number of pages in PaperDesk full version, and they remember where you left off when you last opened them. In PaperDesk LITE, you are limited to 3 pages per notebook. || Free, Functional and Flexible, Notebook+ is your best choice for taking notes on your iPad. Notebook+ provides you with smooth and comfortable experience when you’re writing, texting, taking notes, or just doodling. Notebook+ is perfect for your everyday use, as simple as you’re writing on the actual notebook with your hand, with much more productivity and convenience. || Take notes in class, sketch out the next great idea, write personal notes in your password protected notebook, or simply highlight some text in a pdf. smartNote makes it easy to do just about anything you would normally do on paper on the iPad || Side by Side is a multiple-window reader/browser with offline reading and note taking capabilities. It turns the iPad into multiple resizable reading devices working in parallel. You can browse webpages, download files, read documents, or take notes on each split screen.When reading something on the iPad, e.g. a webpage or a PDF document, you might often need some handy tools on the side, e.g. a dictionary, a notepad, your email inbox, your facebook updates, an IM tool to chat with your friends, or a youtube video with your favorite background music. This app provides you plenty of possible ways to organize your beautiful iPad screen. || Note Hub is a unique approach to creativity on the iPad. Whereas some apps do one thing very well, and others do lots of things in a document but not with all the functionality you need, the innovative architecture of Note Hub affords it an unchallenged position where there is little tradeoff between flexibility and effectiveness. Because you can create projects with unlimited Notes, Drawings, Task lists, Web browsers, Maps, and Calculators. Each document is fully-featured, not watered-down mini-snippets, yet they work together fluidly in a way that makes you more productive. All in a straightforward thumbnail-driven interface. || Use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast. Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone you like. Skitch lets you: Annotate: Add arrows, shapes and text to existing images; Create: Draw something new; Edit: Reposition, recolor and remove your annotations at will; || A world-class voice recorder with the one of the world’s top Transcription Services to provide you with the best dictation and transcription solution available. Record, edit and upload a digital recording then have the file accurately and efficiently transcribed to text anywhere, at anytime. All you need is an Internet connection. || Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. || With MyScript Memo, take your notes on the go using your handwriting and convert them to digital text that you can export and share with Evernote®, Facebook®, Twitter®, Gmail or copy/paste to any other text application. MyScript Memo is available in 30 recognition languages (including Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, English, Spanish, French and many more). In addition, MyScript Memo allows you to create notes including free drawings, pictures and handwritten annotations. || Best quality FREE drawing & handwriting app for iPad It's so simple & convenient - just sketch & take notes about anything in your mind. Save and share your novel ideas in the school, cafeteria, office or even on the bed. || Take notes and draw on your iPad™ with the best app in the store for handwritten notes, sketching, mind mapping, and more! Express yourself with multiple pens, each customizable with multiple colors, line widths, and transparency/opacity. Annotate photos and maps. Unlimited undo/redo. ||  The original, powerful, still easiest-to-use handwriting app for iPad. Penultimate gives you the fast, tacti le gratification of writing on paper, with di gital power and flexibility. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- in the office, on the go, or home on the sofa. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Your all-purpose digital library on iPad - bookmarks, archives, annotations, notes, images, and screenshots. Collect everything, find fast, share easily, and access anywhere. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">View/Add Delicious Bookmarks using iPad. Preview/Navigate Bookmarks in inbuilt Web Browser. Fast search feature to easily search through your Bookmarks. Search popular Bookmarks by tags or by delicious user. ||
 * [[image:mind_mash.jpg width="127" height="127"]] || **Mind Mash**
 * [[image:scratchwork.jpg width="130" height="129"]] || **Scratch Work**
 * [[image:Notability.jpg width="124" height="132"]] || **Notability: $.99**
 * [[image:Paper_Desk_Lite.jpg width="125" height="127"]] || **Paper Desk LITE**
 * [[image:Notebook+.jpg width="129" height="129"]] || **Notebooks+ Free**
 * [[image:smart_note.jpg width="125" height="131"]] || **smartNote**
 * [[image:SIDE_BY_SIDE.jpg width="130" height="129"]] || **Side by Side**
 * [[image:NoteHub.jpg width="130" height="129"]] || **Note Hub**
 * [[image:skitch.jpg width="129" height="128"]] || **Skitch**
 * [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dszBp3htnjo/TMJsUzYRV0I/AAAAAAAAAHc/kC-E6hK7DjA/s1600/d2u.png width="113" height="113" align="center"]] || **d2u**
 * [[image:dragon_dictation.jpg width="129" height="137"]] || **Dragon Dictation**
 * [[image:my_script_memo.jpg width="129" height="127"]] || **My Script Memo**
 * [[image:absolute_board.jpg width="127" height="130"]] || **Absolute Board**
 * [[image:neu_notes.jpg width="132" height="130"]] || **neu.Notes**
 * [[image:Penultimate.jpg width="121" height="120"]] || **Penultimate: $.99**
 * || ==// Bookmarking //== ||
 * [[image:diigo.jpg width="123" height="131"]] || **D iigo **
 * [[image:delicious.jpg width="132" height="129"]] || ** Delicious **

// WebCuration //
|| <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize, discover everything you like on the web. The unique visual interface lets you keep everything you like at hand so you can organize it your way. Collect web pages and turn them into pearls. Organize your pearls into pearltrees based on your interests. Share all of this and start to cultivate your interests with Pearltrees. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you, from Instagram photos and Facebook updates to Tumblr posts and articles from your favorite publications. Connect Flipboard to all your social networks, and you'll have a single place to enjoy, browse, comment on and share all the news, photos and updates that matter to you. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Zite is a free personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it. Zite delivers all the great news, articles, blogs, and videos you want – and helps you discover new stuff that you'll love. Get a head start on finding amazing content tailored just for you by automatically syncing Zite with your Twitter and Google Reader accounts. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Scoop.it lets you easily publish online magazines by curating content on your favorite topic. Curate on the go with the Scoop.it iDevice App. Select, edit and publish posts in the same engaging visual format as from the Web site. Review your suggestion list or add posts from Safari mobile then share on all your connected Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr... accounts. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hitpad delivers bite-size information snippets about the most important and worth-knowing topics of the day, highlighting why they are important and may be of interest, so you become current in no time and with very little effort. As you use Hitpad, it learns your interests in order to deliver you the most important information snippets in the areas that you care about. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Feed your mind. Get the best content from your favorite websites delivered to your iPhone and iPad. Powered by Google Reader, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instapaper and Read it later. If you are an existing Google Reader user, you can think of feedly as a fast/visual overlay with lots for sharing options and seamless 2-way integration. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pulse takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. Save stories for reading later across all platforms or sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later and Evernote. Sharing a story via Facebook, Twitter and email is as easy as two taps. Apple Design Award Winner 2011! || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Beautiful design, simple user interface, and integrated social settings make Flud a great place to read your news. Customize Flud to your personal tastes. Follow all your favorite blogs and news sites, save stories to read when you have time or offline, connect with friends and other Fluders who share your interests. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Google Currents uses Google search technology to build editions tracking the five most recent trending stories in categories such as world, entertainment, sports, science, and more. Each story is presented through a fresh edition of articles, videos, and pictures. Instantly, turn your Google Reader subscriptions, or any of your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful edition with a magazine feel. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">News360 for iPad aggregates more than 7000 different news sources around the web to bring you news stories in a concise and useful stream. The semantic analysis technology behind News360 allows you to get background information and dossiers about all the companies, people and locations that make the news, and to personalize the news based on your specific interests. ||
 * [[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bEt5uCfuQ5E/Twq5D9mEorI/AAAAAAAABoM/wP0nRf2fFqg/s200/Pearltrees.png width="124" height="126" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pearltrees/id463462134?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Pearltrees **
 * [[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5XC_Vzlrq-o/Twq5I3WNtdI/AAAAAAAABoU/O6RZBkq5HxY/s200/flipboard.png width="124" height="124" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Flipboard **
 * [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5Nt8j-eFA2s/Twq5OveacGI/AAAAAAAABoc/gDuZeGhcpHE/s200/zite.png width="122" height="124" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/zite-personalized-magazine/id419752338?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Zite **
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gr6CAyMyFgg/Twq6uFSpkiI/AAAAAAAABok/OaHGWDBcFGo/s200/scoop.png width="122" height="121" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/scoop.it/id487321972?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Scoop.it **
 * [[image:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VdSYqdt01GQ/Twq6yv1xcvI/AAAAAAAABos/I7-lGuFab4I/s200/hitpad.png width="123" height="126" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/hitpad-see-whats-up/id422564565?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HitPad **
 * [[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kl1mIfTggRc/Twq67Vu-pjI/AAAAAAAABo8/fGF5wN3WOS0/s200/feedly.png width="125" height="126" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/feedly/id396069556?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Feedly **
 * [[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FLfArX0xICo/Twq6_hdb4CI/AAAAAAAABpE/xwgUHHUKYpw/s200/pulse.png width="124" height="126" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pulse-news-for-ipad/id371088673?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pulse **
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8dq7Q-UbCII/Twq7E6GMK0I/AAAAAAAABpM/5IY5l1ilYzA/s200/flud.png width="124" height="126" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/flud/id382544677?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Flud **
 * [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CuerRWd_Gv0/Twq7IpDFbHI/AAAAAAAABpU/0Ij6ddVwTXE/s200/google+currents.png width="125" height="125" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-currents/id459182288?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Google Currents **
 * [[image:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-COXLc_hVL-s/Twq62iOB2cI/AAAAAAAABo0/gxtj1BIVGwE/s200/news360.png width="123" height="125" align="center" link="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/news360-for-ipad/id420397564?mt=8"]] || **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">News360 **