-Hi, everybody, and welcome back
to the Paperless Movement YouTube channel. I’m Tom Solid, and I’m back
on my place here. We are actually right back
in a notetaking app review session. I was talking about Notability,
GoodNotes, Noteshelf, and why they’re great, and awesome, and using
the digital journal and all this. Today, I will not only tell
you why Apple Notes, the free app that you can get on any iPad, is
better than any of the other tools, and why we sent back the reMarkable
in order to use the Apple Notes. Let’s roll it. [music] -Okay, everyone, let’s
start with the issue that I usually had taking notes. This is the daily
notetaking, some sticky notes that I want to type somewhere,
so I don’t forget this. Usually, we write this down
on a piece of paper, maybe we make a task
list on a piece of paper. It lays there on the desk
and we tick it off the whole day, and we have to satisfaction
of finishing something. This is what the iPad didn’t
allow me to do, and why we cannot do this with Apple Notes
you will learn now in this video. Before that, I will show you my thought process and why I went
back to Apple Notes now. My goal was first to get
this in-my-face feeling back. I was taking notes on the iPad that was
fine when I was writing something up. I was doing this on the iPad. However, when it comes to scribbling
down, sketching, things like that, I was looking for solutions,
so I didn’t want to use paper. Whoops. Salaa. [chuckles] I didn’t want to use paper,
and so I bought this here. It’s about $10, it is a pen
in here, and you can write on this. Then, I don’t know if you can see
this, see I can ride on there. You can actually tap the button,
and it deletes everything, and you can even lock the button,
so it stays there the whole day, you don’t accidentally delete it. This way, I was able to replace
my Post-its without wasting paper. It was laying on my desk. I made
a note so I shouldn’t forget. However, it is not the same. I wasn’t using it as natural
as using paper. Therefore I went for the Rocketbook. I had my Rocketbook there,
and I thought, "Okay, I can wipe this clean
every day and use it again. But I tell you what,
I never wiped it clean. I used a new page, was going
through this taking notes. However, I had
this in-my-face feeling back. When I had interviews
or something like this, I took the notes on there
because it stayed there. I didn’t need to open up my iPad
and go to the note-taking app and things like that,
losing time by this. Why this is no longer an issue
with the iPad, we will find out now. However, before we go there I want to tell
you that I also got now the reMarkable. Many of you in my inner
circle membership, thank you very much for sponsoring
this channel actually. By being a member in my membership,
I’m able to buy the devices that I test here and stay not
sponsored, unbiased in my reviews. This really allows me to dive deep
into this and give you my own opinion. My opinion on a reMarkable is
that first I thought, "This is awesome. I will stay with the reMarkable." Why? If you look now on the overhead
cam. We have here the reMarkable. Here you have some notes that I have
taken for my coder online course that is now available for my inner
circle members. This stays there. When the remarkably switches off over
time, it doesn’t drain your battery. It will last for a week. I’m using it for one and a half
weeks without recharging it, and it stays there
and this is due to the ink thing. It is really like paper so there
is no lightning or anything. It is really like a piece of paper
and it also feels like a piece of paper. All you need to do is
switch on and keep writing. You can turn this around,
and you can delete it. This is something the Apple
Pencil still doesn’t have, but there are some workarounds
you can do with this. That’s it. It is a lot of money
that you spend for the reMarkable but the operating system is
just [mouths]. There’s nothing. First I thought, "This
is exactly what I need. It’s not distracting, there are
no notifications popping up." Things like this. I always can go
back into my note and keep adding notes, and it feels
great at the same time. I absolutely understand why
people are so into reMarkable and why they love it Now
we come to Apple Notes. I finally found my in-the-face
feeling had lying around. I am able to send this via
email even to click up, for example, to create
a note out of this. If you’re an inner circle
member, go into the section where I explain how you can
send this or scanned documents and create automatically
click-up tasks out of this. This is now available for my inner
circle members as well. It is very limiting, so I can only
send it via email, I can access the files on my desktop via
the app but it is so disconnected. If you are part of my my inner
circle or the Paperless Movement, then you know that I talk a lot
about connecting the dots. I’m talking about the ICOR
framework, which is input control output refined, that helps you to set
up your digital productivity system end-to-end by starting
taking notes, starting to find these notes, and actually leverage
your notes in order to get things done. This is something I have
a friction point here. I can scribble down some notes. It’s nice for brainstorming
and things like this, which was the reason why I was using
reMarkable, but that’s it. There’s a text conversion thing
now that you can use on reMarkable. Now I showed you the paper, and I showed you the alternatives
for Post-it and so on. I don’t have the in-your-face feeling
on the iPad, but this changed. Now I show you exactly how this works. With Apple Note, it was already
possible that I can just go here, tap on the screen
and recreate a new note for me. Now I can just start writing. That’s it. I switch it off, it’s gone. I could plug it in and keep the screen on so I would have
this in-my-face feeling as well. Maybe then I’m navigating somewhere else. The thing is, when I tap then again,
it opens a new note and I can start again. This is not what I wanted to have,
compared to the reMarkable. See it is still there, the page
that I want to keep writing on. This is not an issue because
you just need to go to the settings, go to Notes, and down there you have,
Access Notes From Lock Screen. Go there, and switch on Resume Last Note. There you go. Now
you have further options. It not only opens
the last note, but you can create it on lock screen
or viewed in Notes app. The thing that I created by just
tapping it, should it open this one, or should it open the note
that I lastly viewed in my Notes app? This includes the notes
that I viewed on my iPhone. The next thing is I can
say, "Create a new note, after 5minutes, 15 minutes,
one hour, after a day." This is perfect because
usually, I have this piece of paper only on a daily basis
where I want to take notes. On the next day, I want
to start with a fresh sketch notebook, things like
this. I say after one day. What this means now,
when I tap the thing, you see it opens up
the last one that I created. I add something, I close the iPad,
I tap again, I start writing. Isn’t that charm? This is awesome, guys. This is something we cannot do
with GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf. We have to open, we have to unlock.
See I didn’t unlock anything. Then we have to navigate
to this and then we can start writing. Too many clicks, too much
friction that it is in my face. If I close this now, see, I go back,
I click Noteshelf, it will boot up. It will show me the main thing. It’s the same with Notability and so on. There are workarounds, like having
a quick note button, or things like this. It is by far not as functional
as for the Apple Notes. Why Apple Notes? "Tom, Notability, GoodNotes, Noteshelf,
they really have great text conversion properties, potential
options, things like this." Yes. Well, I don’t care
because this is great. Take your finger, select. Do you see how this is
selecting your text? In none of the paid note-taking apps, you will find this way of selecting text. I can copy this as text. Now I can go wherever I want
to maybe even into Noteshelf. Now I can add here a text field
and I just paste the text. Do you see this? This is great. You now see, "Oh, Tom,
but you’re zooming in? Is this possible?" No. Zooming is still not
a thing in the Notes app. I never needed it. Now we can zoom on the reMarkable
with the latest update. The pinch-zoom thing wasn’t a thing
before so now I can do this. It is really helpful especially
if you want to draw something, but having the iPad and I want to draw
something, I could go into Procreate. This is now replacing my reMarkable
that costs me around €500, and you can get an iPad Air 2020 with an Apple
Pencil for about the same price. Think about this. What else
you can do with the iPad. We are just talking
about daily sketch notes. You can do so much more
with the iPad and the iPad OS system and especially if you’re using already
an iPhone or a MacBook and so on. This is now another game-changer.
Let me show what I mean. We now open up the screen here
and we go into Notes and see. There we go. Here actually, we can zoom because,
on the phone, it might be small. You see it is already there
what we have written there. Isn’t that awesome? What you already see here, dark mode. It recognizes what you have
drawn there and converts it properly, not some
fake dark mode, and so on. The other thing is people
were complaining is that the import of PDFs
it’s not a thing in Apple Notes. No longer a issue. You know, if you follow
me that I’m offering to you to create your own
digital journals. What this means I show
you quickly in Noteshelf, this is a digital journal
and you can just type here on the Y and you will go
to the yearly overview. You can tap to the day
you will jump there. You can start taking notes. The functionality of pressing
these buttons wasn’t possible to do in Apple Notes and annotation
was really limiting and so on. No longer issue. Let’s
go into Apple Notes. I already added the journal here. You just tap on this PDF and then
we just tap on to a button. Do you see this? Just press the button. It jumps to the different places
and I can just start writing. I change my style, I use
something that is missing in all the other note-taking apps
as well, proper shading. This is working, you see. It
stays where it belongs to. This is integrated as a PDF file. This means I can just write below and keep
it in there as my daily journal in there. With a free application that is
available already for the iPad, iPhone, and your MacBook,
you can tell Siri to add things. This is just now scratching
the surface because Apple Notes became so powerful that I think I should do
an online course showing you actually in detail how to use
Apple Notes like a pro. What do you think about this? Let me know in the comments below. Happy to get onto this. So
excited about having this now. Now let’s say, "Oh Tom, but the feeling
of the reMarkable is just awesome." I agree, they really nailed
it here when it comes to replicating the feeling
writing on paper. The thing that we actually need from
this writing on paper is this friction that the pencil-- It gives us just
a bit more control over writing. This is what we are missing
from the feeling of paper. Solution. Paperlike screen protector. This is what I recommend for years
now and they never let me down. It is just awesome using the Paperlike on your iPad, and it just
feels like paper. Then combined with the thing that I can
shade properly and it is just the shading. How the pencil is built up compared
to the one from reMarkable, you have a much bigger surface to actually
properly shade compared to this. It is not the same feeling. It feels like fake shading when
you’re using it on reMarkable. Then when you zoom into what you write
here, do you see how fluent this is? Let’s zoom into what I did
on the reMarkable. Do you see this? The thing is, people were complaining
that they can’t use PDFs in reMarkable. This is actually now a thing. Just quickly before we end the video,
I want to show you that you can actually use the digital journal now
that I just showed you on the iPad, also the reMarkable now. Here we go. You can use it in landscape mode
and now we can start writing. We can just simply tap
on this and we will navigate to the thing. The advantages here
we have here back button. This is something missing on all
the other things that we can easily write something, jump to another
date, and then write something. The downside here is it will
disappear eventually. When you keep writing,
it will go away. See? Then it’s no longer there.
This is not an issue. We can jump to the yearly view now. We can tap here
on the button, we jump there. If you’re interested to use
the reMarkable actually, it is now working
with your digital journal as well. As a final word, if I’m using
my digital journal, inside Apple Note, and take
my daily notes in there, I will have access from
any device that I like. That’s another issue with Notability,
GoodNotes, and Noteshelf accessibility of your notes
on PC and other devices. You can do this with Apple Notes. Just unlock the Apple Notes to upload
to your iCloud, and then install the iCloud application on your PC
and you can access your notes there. Awesome, isn’t it? If you like this video, if you think
this is useful, and you need to share this with your friends because
they didn’t know, they keep telling you, "Oh, you can’t do anything
with your Apple Notes," this is what you need to share then. We just scratched the surface
and we looked at a specific use-case here, with this in-your-face thing
and easy access of your notes. I know that you have audio
recording for Notability and Noteshelf, and you have
other capabilities that you can do in Apple Notes
and the other way around. It is really up to what
you personally need. What I don’t like is,
if people ask on social media, "What is the best
note-taking app?" People answer, "Notion,
Notability, GoodNotes," this is not an answer. It is always up
to you and to your personal needs, what you actually need. How do you process your notes after this? If you want to learn more
about this and really want to dive into an end-to-end
digital productivity system, make sure that you join
my inner circle membership. In there you not only will
get loads of resources understanding how your end-to-end
productivity system should be set up but you will
also join a big community of like-minded people who
struggle with the same challenges. This is just awesome, if somebody asks something in there
and others start replying. Make sure to join us, subscribe
to this channel if you want to stay up to date about topics like this,
and I’ll catch you up next time.
