Hi Stacey, Yes, you can link up to Dropbox. Then any text files you put in the right Dropbox folder end up in the app when you press the Sync button, and anything you write ends up in the Dropbox folder.
Best, Anna On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:46 PM, Stacey Robinson <stacey...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > 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. 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