Anna, You've sold me on it. I'll be buying it in a couple days. Can you link things to dropbox? How do you back things up? Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Chesley
On Jan 30, 2013, at 9:36 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > Hi, > > From my perspective, AccessNote is absolutely worth the money. I got it a few > hours ago and am thrilled. Yes, it needs more features, such as find and > replace, the ability to move by paragraph with a braille display, and the > ability to handle more file types. But it does quite a few things that no > other notetaking app I've tried does, and it does them well. > > One is that when I do a search, I am taken right to the spot where the search > item is. This sort of works in Pages if I'm using a braille display, but > really doesn't work well for me when I'm not. I've wanted to be able to > search my documents for years, and I love being able to do it consistently. > > Another benefit is that unlike Pages, wherever I am is in edit mode. With > Pages, I have been frustrated on many occasions by reading along and wanting > to change something, double-tapping, and finding the insertion point is > somewhere else entirely, so I have to find my place again. This isn't > happening with accessNote, at least so far. > > AccessNote saves my place in a file. If I'm reading with a braille display, I > need to double-tap to be sure the correct location is saved, and I need to > back out of the file before removing the app from the App switcher, but if I > do those things, it works consistently. Moreover, when I open the app, the > line I was reading appears on the display, rather than my needing to tap > somewhere to get focus to the right place. This isn't a big deal, but it's a > nice change from other apps. > > Finally, it's a way to read braille files without a lot of processing, and > the files appear using the formatting with which they were written. Since > most braille files have a lot of extra dot 7s in them, I would still want to > change the case of the whole file to lower case first to get rid of them. But > if the files don't have them or if you don't care about eliminating them, all > you have to do is add a txt extension, and they appear in beautifully > formatted braille. > > Is $20 a lot to spend for a notetaking app? Absolutely. But since this does > so many things that no other app I've used does, I'm glad I bought it. > > The other notetaking apps I've used are Pages, which has the problems I > mentioned, Notes, which is great for short things but would be a pain for > longer ones because it has no search ability, and very briefly Elements, > which has no search facility, Notesy, which wouldn't open the text files I > wanted to work with because I guess they were too long, and Write 2, which > wouldn't speak any of my search results. There certainly might be apps I've > missed that have AccessNote's features, but I've tried quite a few and > haven't found those features anywhere else. > > I hope that helps. > > Best, > Anna > > > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Moop Curran <moopiecur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm a totally blind iphone user. I use a bluetooth keyboard with my iPhone, >> I don't use a Braille display. So what I was wondering, is access note worth >> the $20? >> Courtney >> >> Sent from my iPad Mini >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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