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SURVEY ON NOTE-TAKING SOFTWARE DESIGN AND FEATURES

A.Rajakrishnammal1, R.Mervin2

1A.Rajakrishnammal, PG Student, Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai, India. 2R.Mervin Associate Professor, Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai, India. Email id: [email protected]

Abstract--Note-Taking is a suite of software and services designed for note-taking and archiving in client machine or in cloud storage. Survey on note-taking software is the comprehensive study of comparison of note-taking software, data storage, and accesses the notes from cloud. Comparison of note-taking software is based on its features and methodologies used. Features includes ease of use, user friendliness, backup storage, cloud integrationand other quality attribute strategies Finally it analyses the feasible methodologies to design and develop the note-taking software, store and access the notes created by the note-taking software.

Keywords-quality attributes, ease of use, integration, and archiving.

I. INTRODUCTION to inform the design and development of systems to support digital note-taking. Note-taking is one of the best digital note-taking products in the world. It allows the users to synchronize, typed notes and images II. COMPARISION OF NOTE-TAKING SOFTWARE across all devices, and to draw or write within each note. It’s one of A. the only apps that enables the user to draw, write, and snap a picture The Evernote web service launched into open beta on June within the same note without any friction. The automatic 24, 2008[1] and has reached 10 million users. Evernote is available organization of the app is based on date and location, but it isn’t as in a paid version or a more restricted, advertising-supported, "free" “smart” with organization as some other services. Note-taking is a version. Use of the online server is free up to a certain monthly central aspect of a complex human behavior related to information usage limit, with additional monthly use reserved for paying management involving a range of underlying mental processes and subscribers. As well as the keyboard entry of typed notes, their interactions with other cognitive functions. Many different [2]Evernote supports image capture from cameras on supported formats are used to structure information and make it easier to find devices,and the recording of voice notes. In some situations, text that and to understand, later. The format of the initial record may often appears in captured images can be recognized using OCR and be informal or unstructured. One common format for such notes is annotated. Evernote also supports touch and tablet screens with shorthand, which can allow large amounts of information to be put handwriting recognition. Evernote web clipping plugins are available on paper very quickly. for the most popular internet browsers that allow marked sections of webpages to be captured and clipped to Evernote. If no section of a Historically, note-taking was an analog process, written in webpage has been highlighted, Evernote can clip the full page. notebooks, or other paper methods like Post-It notes. In the digital Evernote also supports the ability to e-mail notes to the service, age, computers, tablet PCs and personal digital assistants (PDAs) are allowing for automated note entry via e-mail rules or filters[6]. common. In particular, the use of information technology for note- taking has been very low despite the potential advantages of digital There is substantial variation in supported features on notes to hand-written notes. Much of the work done in human- different platforms.On Mac it is possible to edit rich text, but only computer interaction (HCI) to support learning techniques has view sketches, and on the iPad only plain text can be edited[2]. focused on interactions and interfaces. This approach, while There is currently no officially supported native application for informing the next-generation of software interfaces for education, is Linux or BSD. Web clipping support is installed by default on the less useful in examining the adoption of existing technologies and Internet Explorer and Safari browsers when the Evernote software is supporting the needs of earlyadopters and power users. Studying the installed under Windows or Mac OS X. Evernote web-clipping tools and behaviors of these users can also help us gain a better plugins are also available for the Firefox and understanding of the current interface limitations that bar further browsers, but need to be downloaded and installed separately[7]. It adoption of these technologies. Finally, this information can be used follows the non-linear note-taking methodologies such as ishikawa

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IJIEST ISSN (2455-8494) Special Issue Vol.01, No. 01, June 2016 diagrams, idea mapping, instant mapping, and knowledge taking software to take notes in a class during the lecture. This mapping.Now a day Evernote is the most popular note-taking method can also be an effective note taking strategy for reading and software used by multiple number of users. It synchronize [5] the organizing notes, Structured note-taking, selective highlighting, and notes whenever the Evernote application is restarted or initialized. summarizing notes. It supports different paper sets, stencils and Evernote, after suffering a data breach that caused the rulers[8]. It requires the student to closely follow the lecture and company to reset passwords for all of its 50 million users, announced daily review of notes is essential. that it plans to adopt two-factor authentication as quickly as possible. [3]By adopting two-factor authentication, Evernote would join a D. All My Notes Organizer growing list of online service providers that have done the same It is a proprietary software tool to organize the information thing, including Amazon Web Services, Dropbox, Facebook, Google surrounds in daily life, such as passwords, URLs, notes, and Gmail, LastPass, Microsoft SkyDrive and Xbox Live, PayPal, anniversaries, birthdays, numbers, sticky notes, draft letters, pictures, Yahoo Mail, and a number of financial services websites. access codes, contact management, trip information, financial information, shopping details etc.It supports Access restriction by B. Google Notebook password, alarms, tasks, icons, rich text, file attachments, outlining, Google notebook is a web based note-taking software. In portable, skins, multilingual, autobackup, capture text via tray icon, Google NoteBook the notes created by the user combined as note and spell checker. Notes are saved in to a solid secure storage file, book and exported to the Google docs. Note book consists of can be organized into flexible virtual folders enabling easy, intuitive collection of documents. Each document exported to the Google access, and instant search. The below screenshot(Fig.1.) displays the docs could be identified by its title followed by the original name of interface design of an AllMyNotes Organizer. It uses heap search the document. It exports the note book data to the Google docs technique to instant access of password protected files and folders. It automatically. The Google Cast SDK technology is used to extend Cannot tag notes. It Would be nice to have tabs and multiple panes the Google Notebook Android, Chrome or iOS app to control a TV Buttons for inserting hyperlinks and checkboxes are not on the or sound system. It supports many media formats, protocols and formatting toolbar for notes. Needs hotkey support for creating new codecs to ease integration. Continuous playback is enabled by note from Windows Clipboard content. Automatic backups of notes autoplay and queuing APIs and Game Manager APIs make Cast database(s) are stored in the same folder as the database itself (i.e. in enabled gaming a breeze. Imported document consists of original Documents\AllMyNotes), which is really stupid and defeats the notebook data including labels, comments and url. Users can edit, purpose of backups in the first place. It requires manual change share or delete these documents just like normal documents. where backups are stored via Options. It sets itself to automatically Bookmarks data will no longer available in Google bookmarks. It start at Windows startup. can able to export the documents in ODF, PDF and Microsoft word documents via Google docs. It is no longer maintained. It requires learning use of Google docs. Sometimes searching of documents leads to trouble in finding the original documents from imported documents.

C. Annotate Annotate is Created by the EVIA Project. Annotate is an "online annotation, collaboration, and indexing system for documents and images, supporting PDF and MS Office formats. It is easily give, collect and store detailed notes on documents and web pages. It is software tool that enables users to create a collection from a set of existing video files, segment that collection at several levels, create annotations for those segments, assign controlled Fig.1. AllMyNotes Organizer vocabulary terms to segments, and control access to parts of the collection. Cornell Note-taking Technique is used in Annotate note-

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Most people probably don’t want a note-taking program to always be hitting the hotkey or copying it to the clipboard. Cinta Notes on. most people probably only want it to be on when they need it. It automatically saves the text and its source URL, and no need to requires disable this behavior from Options. install a plug-in to integrate it with web browser. Retrieving information is also trivial: just open CintaNotes and start typing to search. More sophisticated search criteria are supported, like E. Basket Note Pads searching by title or by URL the note was taken from. user can use Basket Note Pad is KDE application program for taking, tags for note organization, and later use tag union, intersection and organizing and sharing notes. Basket Note Pads Licensed under subtraction filters to quickly find what users need. Live note GPL. It supports Linux platform. It converts the rich text notes in to synchronization is supported with the help of free online services html format, adding, managing notes by category, importing text such as DropBox.Cinta notes uses a groovy cool writing techniques files, images, sounds, autosave. Instead of setting up notes in a to write the notes in creative way. The program is not perfect by any "Notebook" metaphor Basket handles notes in a more standard means. But many of the limitations of the program are computer metaphor - a tree view. Its main features are Create notes understandable for a program of this type. If there was aeditor it in categories with multiple columns. It uses the visual mapping would be overburdened with toolbars full of buttons and numerous method to organize and store notes. A visual “mind mapping” menus, it would be even worse than Microsoft word. There is a technique presents information in a graphic format. KDE project program called Info Qube which has gone down this route and the thus when installing it for the first time it’ll install a reasonable user interface is hideously complex. amount of KDE based dependencies which can take some HDD space won’t necessarily slow down PC but some of those libraries H. Deja click feel like unnecessary for Gnome or Unity users. Deja click is a browser plug-in to annotate the pages and interacting with them. It enables the user to add comments, F. Spring pad instructions, detailed messages with deja click scripts. Users can Springpad was a free online application that allowed its include simple text or more complex comments and images in to registered users to save, organize and share collected ideas and scripts. Deja click has ability to annotate live web pages via information. As users added content to their Springpad accounts, the DéjàNotes and share scripts. Notes may include rich text or HTML application automatically identified and categorized it, then and can be printed and saved as a normal web page via the Firefox generated additional snippets based on the types of objects added— browser. It uses the preloading methodology to run the scripts. It for example, listing price comparisons for products and showtimes also enables the user to build the perfect site. The “notes” appear as for movies. Events could also be added to Springpad, and if the user an overlay on the screen, popping up at user-specified times during used , they could opt to sync the event to script replays.Deja cloud is used to store the notes created by the it.Springpad differentiates itself with its huge list of smart note types deja click. The drawback of deja click is cost which means which are built to work with the web, giving it an upper hand if user DejaCloud is a subscription service. purchase covers the first year, capture a lot of stuff while browsing rather than just manually taking and after the first year it costs roughly $5 per month. notes. The app will figure out whether users are on a recipe website or a movie database and create notes of the appropriate type with the I. Microsoft OneNote necessary data fields. Springpad requires more steps in order to Microsoft OneNote[4] is a note-taking software to organize simply capture a picture. It was also available as apps on the iPad, notes, drawings, screen captures and audio commentaries. A web- iPhone and Android that synchronized with the Web interface. It was based version of OneNote is provided as part of OneDrive or Office bundled on new Toshiba notebook computers through a Web Online and enables users to edit notes via a web browser. It is also application subscription service available as free standalone application for different platforms. OneNote could take a bit of time to get used to, but rest assured it’s G. Cinta notes worth every minute of it. The interface and design has improved Cintanotes is a Microsoft windows application for taking over the years drastically reducing the learning curve. OneNote and managing notes. The program sits in the system tray and springs improves document accessibility and easy to share notebooks. It into action via a hot key. It is ergonomic, fast, and unobtrusive. Cinta uses the sentence method, charting, mapping, concept mapping, notes enables the user to Clip text from anywhere by selecting it and

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IJIEST ISSN (2455-8494) Special Issue Vol.01, No. 01, June 2016 clustering, methods to take notes and organize it. These methods are used in non-linear note-taking forms. Web based OneNote is also available which synchronize the notes in to the cloud that is IV. Conclusion onedrive. Finally this study concludes that the fundamental technique Other Note-taking software are Gnote, Gornal, Annotate, to design and implement the note-taking software is design Idea power, Jarnal, Knote, Keep note, Lecturepad, Exstore organizer, guidelines and enriched user experience feedback. Integrating the FileIt,’in,pensu. These note-taking software supports various note-taking software for storage purpose only will gives the results features. Evernote's competitors include Memoni[12], in synchronization without any latency. Future research will focused Springpad,peoplesnote[10],ploze[11] Simplenote, Microsoft on implementing the note-taking software with the integration of OneNote on Windows, Windows Phone, a web client and iPhone. cloud storage to store notes securely. Barebones Software's Yojimbo; Journler; Circus Ponies NoteBook REFERENCES on Macintosh; Lognoter PIM version on Windows, Macintosh and Linux; Zotero for Firefox; gnote for GNOME and Linux; BasKet [1] "Evernote Public Launch!" (http://blog. evernote.com/2008/ Note Pads for KDE/Linux (or any system KDE runs on); and 06/ 24/ evernote-public-launch/ ) Nevernote,[13],[9] an open source clone of Evernote designed to run [2] Evernote Tops Ten Million Users (http:// blog.evernote. on Linux, Windows, OS-X. com/ 2011/ 06/ 06/ evernote-tops-ten-million-users/ ) [3] Reisinger, Don (October 19, 2010). Evernote secures $20 III. RESULTS DISCUSSION million in investment round (http://news.cnet.com/ 8301- Designing the application with interactive icons, and ease of 13506_3-20020000-17.html). CNET News. Retrieved on use flow layout to create and edit notes as their wished format. October 22, 2010. Organizing note using the knowledge mapping is one feasible [4] http://jonwestfall.com/2010/09/scan-directly-from-your- method in note-taking software.. The note-taking software should be office-to-evernote/ designed based on design guidelines. Then it should be integrated [5] http://www.evernote. com/ about/ developer/ api/ ref/ with the cloud storage to store the notes in the cloud. If the entire Limits. Html software run s on the cloud then it will requires additional run time [6] Jill Duffy (June 17,2011). "Evernote Unveils Windows environment and intermediate notes to run the application in cloud. Phone 7 App" (http://www. pcmag.com/ article2/ Instead of that client side machine can be used to run the note- 0,2817,2387176,00. asp).Retrieved July 9,2011. taking software.Storing the notes in to the cloud provides an [7] http://www. wextensions. com/ 2010/ 04/ 29/ gadget-79- ubiquitous access of notes and share it through the cloud. So the user evernote/ no need to take the backup and restore the notes often. Some web [8] http://www.evernote. com/ about/ download/ palm. Php service based note-taking application requires frequent [9] http://nevernote. sourceforge. net/ synchronization to update the modified notes. Cloud backed notes [10] http://peoplesnote. org/ are modified through synchronization. This synchronization is [11] http://ploze. com/about generally initiated and processed by the note-taking software. So it [12] Memonic official website (http://www. memonic. com) leads to delay in process due to simultaneous synchronization. [13] NevernoteNevernote on Sourceforge (http:// nevernote. Instead of using the note-taking software to synchronize, application sourceforge. net) program interface which is used to integrate the storage and application will used to initiate the synchronization of notes while connecting the desktop to the cloud. Then the processes done by the note-taking software if speeded up automatically.

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