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I owe you guys a couple to get caught up since I missed yesterday. Had I been using something like Awesome Note, I might not have forgotten. I have been working on this for a few weeks and just recently replaced the free version with the paid ($3.99) version. I lost all my notes. I am not sure if I could have moved them, but I will just start over. Oh well. It’s a great app and worth the upgrade.

Developer Notes:

Finally, combine Notes and To-dos in one app!

Awesome Note is an innovative note taking app and task manager that allows you the flexible to combine notes with tasks. It helps you easily organize your idea, thoughts, memos, checklists, to-do lists and anything else into custom categories and simply manage your tasks with due dates. Awesome Note enables you to customize its look with themes the way you want it to be displayed with different paper backgrounds, icons, fonts and colors. It provides the Post it style Quick Memo which is a quick and easy way to get a thought down.With Awesome Note, organize your life better than ever.

FEATURES

[Intuitive User Interface]
- Simple easy to use.
- Create and edit without a net connection
- Full support Landscape mode in all views
- Instant access to all tasks and notes

[Organizing into folders]
- Optional Passcode Protection for each folder
- Create, edit and save notes into categories.
- Customize folders with cool color choices and unique icons
- Create, edit and delete folders
- Access to all notes in All Note category

[Customizing notes with style]
- A wide variety of theme backgrounds
- Easily change out backgrounds just by tapping a menu
- Choose the display font and text size for each note

[Task-like notes]
- GTD-friendly simple tasks
- Set due dates and priority for notes
- Checklist, Shopping List, To-Do task
- Badge on the main screen (Overdue and Today task)

[Post-it style Quick Memo]
- Quickly access to four sticky memos
- Save as notes

[Easy taking notes]
- Fast to note
- Quickly add memos and notes
- Edit your own note title
- Cut, Copy, Paste and Undo/Redo
- Provides a button to close keyboard

[Multiple View and Sorting]
- Thumbnail view, List view, Task view mode for folders
- Sort notes by name, creation dates, modification dates, due dates and priorities.

[Backup and Transfer]
- Easy import/export with Google Docs
- Backup to and restore from Google Docs

[Usability]
- Full Text Search
- Email your notes directly from the app
- Restores the last-viewed screen

 
On the left, you have the main dashboard for the app. Up top, you can create a new memo, a new note, or view all notes. The settings can be accessed by clicking on the gear icon at the bottom left. The icons in the bottom right allow you to create new folders or edit existing folders. In the middle, you have your folders listed.along with the icon you choose when you create a folder, the folder name, and how many items are in those folders.

One of the most pleasant things that this app has going for it is definitely the look. It’s sexy and offers a ton of customization. They seem to have spent a lot of time making it “pretty”. On the left you can see a quick memo. The icons at the top allow you to choose the color paper for the memo. The color selected has a checkmark on it. (see below right for another color choice) You can also change the font to one of many nice looking fonts.

The screenshot on the right shows a new note being created. You have many options of styles and types of notes to choose from.

As you can see in my “website to do” list, I have created items with a couple of the choices. You can see that I have completed the redesign item. In the right hand screen, you see the same 2 items in a list view. You toggle views in the
bottom bar. In this list view, you can see the date that the contest winner needs to be picked on that item. This is the view I plan to use most. The sticky note view on the left is pretty, but pretty is not always best.

Here is the edit folder view. You can see all the colors I can choose from.

Wrap Up
This app is almost too feature rich on the looks side to be honest. I was initially turned on by how it looked which is probably one of the things that make it so appealing to others. I like the app a lot, but I can not recommend it at $3.99 to everyone. It is the best looking app for notes and to do lists out there, so if the looks of the UI is important to you, go for it.

Pros:

• Very nice looking and offers almost too much customization
• The developer seems to be working hard to add more features and functionality
• Sorting by folders is wonderful and works well

Cons:

• Lacks the ability to alert the user of a time sensitive todo that is coming due
• Too many theme, font style, and font size options.
• Google Doc syncing is not refined yet.

This review is part of our 50 app reviews in 50 days series. To check out the others, click here.