Note Studio

I have audionote and audionote 2. Mistakenly bought this thinking it was an alternative. This was a perfect recording program for a long time, and now it crashes regularly. It had become an integral part of my work flow and it has cost me hours, lost irreplaceable notes. I was a fan but I now hate these guys. Lousy support. Find something else.

Wish I had another hour to waste watching it crash. There went $10/

I have heard good things about AudioNote 2, so I figured I'd purchase this app since it is made by the same developer and has more features. I regret my decision. This app is very buggy and does not work properly. Also, the interface is very confusing. I do not recommend this app.

I have tried many notetaking apps and I have found this to be the most versitile and easy to understand.

This app cost too much too much for what it offers, and lacks. Here is some insight on the app: LOOK: * Unattractive, outdated interface. No ‘innovative’ feel like Evernote or OneNote when you just know the interface is updated and up to the ’now’. FEEL: * It has a quirky and non-intuitive, outdated feel to it. The program seems to be rushed and focused on profit rather than researching the need of the customer. * Can’t drag/drop, copy and paste photos into the editor. Have to actually have an image file. Outdated! * Seems more like a ‘Note Shack’ rather than a ‘Note Studio’ because it appears that not enough research and effort was put into it. * Very difficult and troublesome to sync a note or other content with the audio/video when not making the note live. When playing the note to see the video and text notes play synced, the results are unexpected, rough, off-sync and skipish. There is no way to know exactly how the video/audio will sync with the text because again, the app is not intuitive where the result would be obvious. No real way to adjust it to any kind of percision without going way too far out of one's way. For example, I selected a sentence to sync with a point in time to the video, but when I play the video the cursor skips to just the word and then disappears and one simply cannot tell what it’s wanting to do. Very confusing setup. * Videos often skip and unexpectedly repeat small segments, and no manual editing of time code on editor. Need to position the play head to make a note, no manual entry of time code, no way to copy and paste from an editor. Outdated! (And at this price, the app could take advantage of Mac’s built-in audio transcribing options, too.) FEATURES: * VERY few formatting options. No tables, no columns, no colors, nothing but simple bullets and numbering, a black and white draw pen, and a yellow highlighter (no other colors). That’s all you'll get. * As this is a note taking app, one would ask, where is the ability to extensively search and locate notes? The current implementation of searching for a note is an over simplistic find dialog that lacks the more advanced search capability one would expect in an application of this price. Typically advanced search options would be available, and all matches would appear in a clickable pane -- ESPECIALLY at this price. When taking notes, students need to move around the notes QUICKLY and without hassle. Think out of the box: Saved searches per document, bookmarks, search pane, locate by highlight etc. * Allows one to import video files, so why not you tube links (embed or offline) or no embed/download web links to videos? Why? * No closed-caption file importing. In an application of this nature (and again, high cost), why not enable closed caption files imported into the note and/or into the video viewer? Doesn't that make a lot more sense? At least then one would be able to bypass horrible built-in media-to-note sync implementation. * No embedding videos or audio directly into the note. While it is okay to have note types set up at making notes on a particular media file, it makes absolutely no sense that actual document area to take notes is so lacking as to not allow more rich multimedia content and embedding directly into the document to elaborate the note. One must create a whole entire ‘note type’ to make use of a single media file. Which means ONE video OR ONE audio per file. Outdated! CONCLUSION: * One single feature that it has is to sync audio/video with text/content in a hackish and poor video performing way isn’t even worth it. * People are serious about their money. The bottom line is, if this app was available as a free trial first, the author could expect much fewer purchases until greatly improved. * Belongs in the under $10 section, to be frankly honest. Many users may feel ripped off. * If you are just thinking about buying this app as a student and not wanting to try a big chunk of your buck, don’t do it. Wait on it! Or Perhaps try Pear Note which appears to have been at least a half star rating more, a more updated interface, more highlight colors, ability to change speed, and multiple media types per notes. While it may also need some improvement, it may be a LITTLE better considering it's rating a little higher.

1 sec delay after you write anything down in the os x ei capitan (open audionote file with note studio) write down one sentence faster you will just get a straight line same thing for the audionote I installed the audionote has shorter delay and much better price, but also has lag after update to ei capitan

the app crashes a lot.. the drawings and picture imports you put on the note page disappear or move to random places. sometimes they even disappear completely. this app has way too many glitches.

I have been using this app and its predecessor “audionote” for about a year now. I am in Seminary so I do alot of note taking, video lecture recording, importing powerpoint slides and PDFs, and recorded video lectures. I LOVE the timestamping aspect. I wish it was more like ‘notability’ in that it takes you right to the spot when you click in the region; this app doesn’t. I also love the abiltiy to import multiple note types - this is a HUGE win! But there is no stamp on this that takes you to the location where you were. The thing I like least is that the outlining funtions are clunky and really wierd. I just wish that it worked like a normal word processing system or like evernote. Pressing enter and tab does not help with subpoints … it is wierd. I’ve also imported notes straight into the program but then it crashes and messes up the flow. I don’t do evernote because of the yearly fee. I don’t do Notability because it is too simple. However, it is almost worth it. In the end, I will say, that I LOVE the idea of this app, It is what I use. but I have a love-hate relationship because of all of its lack. I do hope they improve it, because it is a great IDEA!!!

I’m a 3rd quarter RN student and have used this all 3 quarters. Works fine as hasn’t crashed or lost any recordings. I wish there were more audio export options besides wav (BIG files) or IMA Caf4 files (not too familiar with this file type), otherwise helps me accomplish what I want to do which is go back and clean up my notes and fill in where i couldn’t type fast enough so that I have complete lecture content to study for exams.

I really like this app! I am running it on a new MacBook Air and it continually crashes every couple of minutes. PLEASE FIX!