Leave the paper behind and scribble notes right on your PDA! Pennovate Notes is a new note-taking application for those who want the freedom of handwriting without the hassle of carrying a pad of paper.

What’s fabulous about Pennovate Notes is that it works with your sd card. You can run it totally from the card or you can run it from RAM but save to your card. This makes it very flexible. It’s wonderful to save your notes to the memory card, because with Pennovate Notes, you will have lots of notes to save! Where on the sd card will you find your notes?

Unlike some apps with a default that can’t be changed, you can set Pennovate Notes to save into any folder on your sd card, or create a new folder from within the program!

Pennovate Notes gives you more space to write on. You are not limited to the width of the screen (like you are in most notes programs). You can keep on writing, while scrolling right with a click of the side button. Another click of the volume rocker, and you drop down to the next line. There’s loads of space to write in all directions. You can also choose the size of your note: 540 x 720, 600 x900, 850 x 100, or 1080 x 1440. Did I mention it was flexible? You can customize a size anywhere in between the minimum of 480 pixels for both height and width, and 1080 width, 1440 height.

Have a problem judging space on that small screen? Are you writing one word across the entire screen? Pennovate Notes helps by offering you assorted writing backgrounds. There’s a traditional lined tablet look, columns, and even graph “paper.” I love the versatility of this app! You can take notes, doodle, or if you are artistically inclined, create artwork with the different pen sizes and all the available colors. Filled and empty shapes are also available.

Your screen is divided into 2 parts. The bottom area, where you do your writing, and the top, which gives you a view of your document. I wouldn’t mind the option of turning this feature off and getting more actual writing space. You can also use this top area to drag the little blue box to instantly move you to any point in your note (at the bottom).

Pennovate Notes saves your notes in .bmp format, and you can beam, email, or Bluetooth the bmp files to any device. You can send your notes to someone with Pennovate Notes so that they can modify your notes, or to someone without Pennovate Notes strictly for viewing.

Feature rich, this is definitely the program to have if you like to write with your stylus in addition to your keyboard.

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Download Pennovate Notes from mytreo.net.

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