

So this means that when you play it back, Pear Note will highlight your text during playback, so you can see what you were typing at that time. When you come back to your notes for later reference and play back audio, you will see the best feature about Pear Note: your audio and typing is linked together.

If you are the paranoid type though, you can always ensure that your files are synced by manually tapping on the button. If you prefer to change the highlighting color, you can do that from this little menu as well.Īs you take notes and record audio, Pear Note will be syncing along the way, so you don’t have to worry about losing your progress. There is an “i” button that gives you even more options, such as different headers, body paragraph formats, and even monospace. There are buttons to increase/decrease indentations, bullet points and numbered lists, highlight (select the text first), bold and italics, as well as moving the cursor around. The keyboard in Pear Note adds a slim top row to make note-taking easier.
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If you prefer to utilize a full screen mode, tap the little expansion button in the bottom right corner of the editing area – the left panel will disappear (tap the button again to bring it back). Pear Note will also show how much time has elapsed in the recording, if you’re worried about that. You can also stop the recording to pause it, then record again to have the app continue where you left off. Tap on the Record button at the top to start recording audio, and just start typing away! The audio indicator at the bottom left will show you how high or low the audio levels are. Just tap on the “New” button at the bottom of the Notes section – this will present you with a blank canvas. You can select them and view the document, and play back the audio and watch the marker in the text be highlighted in real-time.įor those that never used Pear Note before, creating a new note is easy. If you move the files on your computer into the Pear Note folder (which is created the first time you hit the Sync button once Dropbox is linked), they will start showing up immediately in the iPad version. Hopefully this can be changed in the future. This means that you won’t be able to access your entire Dropbox folder. Yes, you will be syncing through Dropbox, but Pear Note on iPad will create a Pear Note folder in your Dropbox to sync to.
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For those that own the Mac app, you will probably be interested in hearing about the sync first.
