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Survey on Note-Taking Software Design and Features IJIEST ISSN (2455-8494) Special Issue Vol.01, No. 01, June 2016 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. Evernote 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 Google Chrome 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 Int. Conf. on ICACWT’16 Page 76 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- Int. Conf. on ICACWT’16 Page 77 IJIEST ISSN (2455-8494) Special Issue Vol.01, No. 01, June 2016 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.
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