We are happy to announce a MAJOR release of Notes Writer Pro 15! Now including full support for the new iOS 15/iPadOS!

What’s New on this new free update 15.0.0?

- Full support for the new iOS and iPadOS 15 !

- Improved support for Apple Pencil 1 and 2

- Improved support for new multitasking modes Split View and Slide Over.

- Better rich text boxes on your notes!

- PDF pages with transparent background are now supported.

- Improved zoom out of PDF pages.

- Improved support for Office documents to PDF conversion.

- Improved laser pointer and ZOOM/Skype presentation mode.

- Fixed minor bugs and improved performance.

+ Improved laser pointer and ZOOM/Skype presentation mode: Use the virtual laser pointer with Zoom and other video conferencing software and share the screen of your PDFs and notes with your students and colleagues!

+ Improved richt text boxes for PDFs and Scribble notes: Now you can add tables, nested bullet and oredered lists, predefined user styles, etc. to your documents!

+ New context menus: Long tap a document or folder cover to access to additional functionality and actions

+ New powerful colour picker: When opening the color well you have the option to switch between grid, spectrum and sliders. You can also change the opacity and switch between color spaces (Display P3 and sRGB). At the top right you have an eye picker where can select a color from anywhere on the screen. You also save colors to use them later on in any other app.

+ New iOS document browse with sidebarr: Additional method for browsing and performing actions on documents stored locally and in the cloud (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, Box, etc.)

+ Improved Presentation Mode with Laser pointer: Present your notes in full screen without any toolbars and menus via AirPlay or HDMI cable. Use Multi-window to open a second note that only you can see while presenting. Use the new laser pointer to point up content on your note without leaving any markings.

Supported Apple technologies on this new release:

+ Scribble for Pencil : powerful new handwriting features with Apple Pencil!

+ Sidebar for quick navigation to the key parts of the content

+ Menus to list actions and items

+ New colour picker

+ New photos picker

+ PencilKit

+ Multitasking, Multi-window and split screen

+ Document scanner

+ Dark and light UI modes

+ Full mouse support

+ Full Apple Pencil support

+ Face ID/Touch ID to unlock the app and documents

+ Standard iOS File Browser

We are happy to announce the release of Notes Writer 13! Now including full support for the new iOS 13!
What’s New on this new major free update 13.0?
+ New feature: Open and edit documents side by side using multi-window (iOS 13). You can open up to 4 documents simultaneously on the screen!
+ New feature: Dark mode. Dark Mode puts the focus on the content areas of your interface, allowing that content to stand out while the surrounding UI recedes into the background. (iOS 13)
+ New feature: Improved support for editing huge books with a ton of images inside and other PDF complex files like architectural layouts or x-ray pictures
+ New feature: New external keyboard commands to navigate between pages and invoke some simple commands like searching and selecting all text
+ New feature: Portuguese language!
+ New feature: Transparency background support for images inserted in PDF and Pencil notes
+ New feature: Now you can rotate stamp, text and images annotations to any angle in PDF and handwritten notes!
+ New feature: New fonts for Arabic, Hindi, Devanagari, Hebrew and Thai languages!

+ Improved: Quicker “add new page” option in PDF and Pencil Notes
+ Improved: Better support for Right To Left PDF books in languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and Urdu.
+ Improved: Improves memory usage with complex documents
+ Improved: Improves the stability of some PDF form operation
+ Improved: Improves performance when opening documents with many links.
+ Improved stability, performance and fixed minor bugs

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+ New feature: Turn gridlines on or off so that you can align words, objects and shapes on PDFs and handwritten Pencil notes.
+ New feature: Support for editing huge books with a ton of images inside and other PDF complex files like architectural layouts or x-ray pictures
+ New feature: A ton of new external keyboard commands to navigate between pages and invoke some simple commands like searching and selecting all text, you can now also invoke actions for built-in bar button items, navigate through table views, manage tabs, and much more
+ New feature: iOS System document picker available now in the Document Editor view as well
+ New feature: Drag and drop images directly from Files, Photos or other apps directly in pages of your PDFs or handwritten pages
+ New feature: Drag and drop PDFs or Pencil note files directly in the Document Editor editing view to merge documents
+ New feature: Use the Apple Pencil 2 panel in Settings app to set the double-tap action in Notes Writer: Switch between current tool and eraser, switch between current tool and last used, show color palette or ignore the double-tap
+ New feature: Unzip files directly in Notes Writer and edit the them
+ New feature: TeX files improved support! Open and edit TeX files. Insert TeX commands using shortcuts in the software keyboard
+ New feature: Now project files created in Notes Writer are compatible with Scrivener 3.x desktop software
+ New feature: Edit in-place documents using iOS files app now supporting iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Box cloud services or any other file provider installed on iOS Files app
+ New feature: Now you can rotate Stamp annotations to any angle in PDF and handwritten notes!
+ New feature: New link annotation editing UI

• Improved: Better support for Right To Left PDF books in languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and Urdu.
  + Improved: Lasso tool in PDF and handwritten notes. Better clip, excerpt, highlight and copy support for any content included in your lasso. You can drag and drop lasso selections to other pages and documents.
  + Improved: Better resizable Split View mode! In Split View mode you can get two PDF/Handwritten documents up at the same time. Split the screen in two panels, for example, one side with an informative PDF text book while taking notes on a different document on the other side.
  + Improved: Document scanner: Scan and insert pages using the Camera in the Document Editor with better accuracy and quality.
  + Improved: Better Signature creation UI
  + Improved stability, performance and fixed minor bugs

You can install it right now for free or buy the advanced Pro version as well:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/notes-writer-take-good-notes/id1423643723

https://itunes.apple.com/app/notes-writer-pro-sync-share/id1422480068

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Type, handwrite, annotate, draw, highlight, scan & record notes and documents. Annotate PDFs, fill forms and sign documents. Create your Notebooks & tree-like projects. The way you like and totally paperless.

Productivity & business professionals, students, teachers, writers, doctors, journalists, academics and more use Notes Writer Pro daily to store & create notes, annotations, memos, signed PDFs, papers, highlighted PDF text-books, recorded lectures and more.

With Notes Writer Pro you can:

+ Take notes. Write documents. Sketch ideas. And make them outstanding.
You have handwritten notes to take, business memo to share, essay to write, have a story to tell, article to edit, lecture to record, whether it’s today’s journal entry, tomorrow’s thesis or a future bestseller novella. Notes Writer can help you create, edit and organize all your notes and documents in a single place.

+ Capture your thoughts and words. The way you like, wherever you are and totally paperless.
Type, handwrite, annotate, sketch, scan & record notes the way you like and use Apple Pencil for superlative experience on the go. Use note-taking and writing tools to capture every word and idea. Notes Writer is a stand-alone note-taking and writing app even if you don’t have a computer or you are offline in the wilds.

+ Stay organized at work, school and life. All your notes in one place.
Create your own Folders, Notebooks & Tree-like projects.
Organize your work in unlimited notebooks, folders and subfolders. Create notebooks and projects in your own tree-like structure: Sections, Departments, Classes, Lectures, Grades, Drafts, Chapters, Research, etc. Find things quickly with the advanced text search engine.

+ Sync and share all. Your notes always with you on all of your devices.
Sync and share seamlessly your notes, notebooks and projects across your devices and computers thanks to iCloud, AirDrop, Email Dropbox, Box and Google Drive. Export your stuff to different file formats.

+ Three-in-one engines working for you: Powerful word processor, smart handwriting engine and robust PDF annotator & reader.
Notes Writer is the only app on the App Store that combines a full featured word processor with a powerful PDF editor and a handwriting and sketching engine to help you create and edit all types of notes, sketches and texts.

+ Like paper, but better. Infinite sheets, templates and paper backgrounds.
Take notes, sketch ideas and write texts as naturally as you do on paper but assisted by a wide range of ink and text tools, paper backgrounds and templates. Choose and combine instantly the paper for your notes and documents based on predefined patterns, grids and graphs (lined, squared, hexagonal, dotted, music staves, etc).

Quick feature list:

· Split view: Open two PDFs or handwritten notes simultaneously on screen. Compare or use them as book and paper.
· Share and sync via iCloud, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Box, WebDAV and Google Drive
· Create rich text format (RTF), PDF, LaTeX and advanced Markdown (MD) documents
· Advanced word-processor formatting: Highlight, strikethrough, subscript/superscript, alignment, line spacing, first-line indent, page breaks, footnotes, comments, text & paper color
· Define margins, headers/footers, paper sizes, MLA and APA style format
· Live counters: characters, words, sentences, lines, Avg. Word length, Words per sentence & reading time
· Text to Speech for proofreading & Dictation
· Typewriter: Distraction-Free mode, letting you focus on what you’re writing
· Night mode to help you writing at night
· Insert special symbols arrows, maths, bullets/stars, GPS location, etc.
· Extra keys: tab, forward delete, cursor up/down/left/right, etc.
· Protect your work with an app or folder security passcode/FaceID
· Automatic Backups of your documents
· Use the camera to scan docs, notes, recipes, tickets, etc. as PDFs
· Sync your notebooks & projects with the popular Scrivener writing software for Mac and Windows

Please, make sure that you are using the latest version of Scrivener for PC (v.1.9.5 or higher) or Mac (2.8 or higher). If you use older Scrivener versions the syncing process may fail. It’s recommended to install the latest version of Dropbox for Mac and Windows as well.

How to create new blank projects?

Go to “Projects” location then tap the “+” button and select “New Project” to create new blank projects. Those projects can be opened as Scrivener projects in your computer. You can create new documents, folders, subfolders, etc. and add imported items to the binder of new projects.

How to import and sync your Scrivener projects from your computer via Dropbox?

ON YOUR COMPUTER

1- Add your Scrivener project (folder or package) into a Dropbox subfolder. Your Scrivener project can’t be a compressed ZIP file (it should not have a .zip extension) . It should be a file (Mac) or folder (PC) with the “.scriv” extension. For example: “My Project.scriv”).

2- Open the project with Scrivener directly from the Dropbox folder and check if everything is OK. If so, close the project and Scrivener and wait until is completely uploaded to Dropbox.

3- If you are copying into Dropbox a duplicated Scrivener project instead of the original one, make sure that you don’t skip step 2: Open the project with Scrivener on your computer directly from Dropbox then close it.

IN NOTES WRITER PRO

3- Tap “Locations” button then tap “Projects” location

4- Tap the “+” button then “Import Project from Dropbox”. The first time you will need to sign in and allow Notes Writer Pro to access your Dropbox documents.

5- Browse to the same Dropbox subfolder where you put the project in step 1)

6- Tap the project name

7- Notes Writer Pro will automatically import the Scrivener project including its binder

8- Tap the imported project to open it and see the binder view. You can open some documents and modify them even if you are offline.

9- Once you are done with your project changes in Notes Writer Pro, you can tap the ”Sync Now” button located on the binder top toolbar. This will send all your changes to the Scrivener project in Dropbox.

ON YOUR COMPUTER

10- Open the updated Dropbox project in Scrivener, and your modifications should be there!

11- Modify some documents in Scrivener.

12- Close the Scrivener project, and Dropbox will send the changes to its cloud, to be soon available for Notes Writer Pro to use them.

IN NOTES WRITER PRO

13- Open the project and then tap the “Sync Now” button. The fresh project with its changes will be downloaded and updated in Notes Writer Pro.

Known issues: comments, footnotes and other features may not be supported if you use this sync method, which is necessary with Scrivener Windows. Patience please, and an upgrade will arrive soon.

Dropbox Syncing Troubleshooting

In case you have problems with the Dropbox syncing process:

1) Do you see red icons (🚫) on some of your binder items? If so, please, make sure that the item is not empty in your Scrivener project on your computer. If it’s empty, type some words in the item then close the project and update it on Dropbox then tap ‘Sync Now’ button to re-sync. If it’s not empty, just tap the ‘Sync Now’ button to re-sync again.

2) Do you have enough free space? For example, if your account has a storage quota of 2 GB, you can upload many files that add up to 2 GB. If you are over your storage quota, Dropbox and Notes Writer Pro will stop syncing.

3) Install the latest version of Dropbox for Windows or Mac OS X on your computer. Some old Dropbox versions don’t work correctly with Scrivener projects.

4) Are you using the latest version of Scrivener (1.9) for Windows and Scrivener 2.8 for Mac? If not please update it and try again. Delete the projects in Notes Writer Pro and import them again via Dropbox. Also, make sure that you have installed the latest version of Dropbox for Windows on your computer.

5) If you already are using the latest version, you can also try to create a blank project in Notes Writer Pro (use the “new project” option in the “+” menu) and sync it to a Dropbox folder. Check if the project is uploaded to Dropbox in your computer.

6) Did you try to import other Scrivener Projects? Does it fail to sync all of them?

7) Make sure that you are not using backup .zip files, please, use your Scrivener project folders (the folder with a .scriv extension) and copy it into a Dropbox folder then import it in Notes Writer Pro. Make sure also that you Dropbox configuration is not auto-converting the .scriv file to a .zip on upload.

8) You can try also to move your project to the root folder of Dropbox instead of using a subfolder. Once copied in the root, delete the project in Notes Writer Pro and import it again using the root location in Dropbox.

9) Try renaming your project to a new name and import it again in Notes Writer Pro.

How to sync your Scrivener projects from your computer via iCloud Drive?

You can also use Apple iCloud Drive to sync Scrivener projects. It doesn’t support the creation of new projects directly on iPad or iPhone but you can easily sync new ones created with Scrivener on your computer. Please, don’t try to sync between devices using iCloud, Scrivener projects are not ready for it and you could have problems. Our advice is to sync Scrivener projects via iCloud only between one device (iPad or iPhone) and your computer.

1) Close your project and Scrivener on your computer. Duplicate the project to have a backup.

2) Copy the original project folder/package (it should have the extension “.scriv”) directly into the iCloud Drive’s “Notes Writer Pro” app root folder. Currently only the root “Notes Writer Pro” is supported, so make sure you don’t copy your project into a “Notes Writer Pro” subfolder. Important note: You should have a “Notes Writer Pro” app folder automatically created by Apple’s iCloud Drive on your computer. If you don’t see it in your iCloud Drive folders list, open Notes Writer Pro, go to “iCloud Documents” and create a new blank document to force iCloud to create that “Notes Writer Pro” app folder.

3) InNotes Writer Pro, go to “iCloud Documents” location and open the Scrivener project

4) Any modification on your documents will be synced automatically, no need to tap any “Sync now” button.

How does the binder work in Notes Writer Pro?

Add new documents and folders

Tap the “+” button to add new documents or folders directly to the root of the binder or select an item then tap “+” to add them after the selected one or into folders.

Import items (documents, images, PDFs, etc.) from Dropbox or other local folders to the binder

Tap “+” button to copy files from Dropbox or other Notes Writer Pro local folders to the selected binder item. Drag & drop the imported files to move them to other binder folders.

Rename documents and folders

Tap the “Edit” button then tap “+” button to rename any item in the binder. You can also double tap the item row to rename

Delete documents and folders

Swipe left the row of the item or tap the “Edit” button, select items then tap the “Trash” icon

Duplicate documents

Tap the “Edit” button then select a document and tap “tool” button to duplicate it

Rearrange items in the binder

Just long tap the item then drag and drop it in another row of the binder

Full-text search Text (RTF) documents in the binder

Tap the search icon on the top left corner of the binder to search and find the most relevant documents

Convert a document to PDF and add it to the binder

Tap the “Edit” button, select a document then tap “tool” button to quickly convert to PDF any document and add the PDF copy as a new item in the binder

Share, print and export any binder item to other apps, cloud services

Tap the “Edit” button, select a document then tap the share button to send it to other apps, via Mail, Dropbox, Google Drive, webDAV, Box or print it

Rename a Scrivener project title

Go to the “Projects” location where all your Scrivener projects are located then tap the name of the project to rename it

Duplicate a Scrivener project

Go to the “Projects” location where all your Scrivener projects are located then tap the “Select” button, tap the project you want to duplicate then tap the duplicate button (“2 docs with a +” icon) on the top toolbar

Delete a Scrivener project

Go to the “Projects” location where all your Scrivener projects are located then tap the “Select” button, tap the project you want to delete then tap the trashcan button on the top toolbar. Deleted projects are moved to the Trash location.

Manually sync project with Dropbox

Tap the button “Sync Now” when you want to sync your project with Dropbox and your desktop Scrivener. If you are offline, you can edit the binder and documents and when online, sync your changes with “Sync Now”.

Email a Scrivener project

Go to the “Projects” location where all your Scrivener projects are located then tap the “Select” button, tap the project you want to email then tap the tool button on the top toolbar and select the “Email this Folder”. The project will be compressed with Zip and attached to a new email.

Protect a Scrivener project with a passcode

If you want to protect a project with a password so only you can access to it, go to the “Projects” location where all your Scrivener projects are located then tap the “Select” button, tap the project you want to protect then tap the tool button on the top toolbar and select the “Enable Passcode”. Type your passcode.

Change the cover design of a Scrivener project

Go to the “Projects” location where all your Scrivener projects are located then tap the “Select” button, tap the project you want to change then tap the tool button on the top toolbar and select the “Change Folder Cover”. You can select a cover from a pre-designed collection or even choose a picture from your photo gallery.

Scan a document and add it to the binder as PDF document

Tap the “+” button to add new documents or folders directly to the root of the binder or select an item then tap “+” to add them after the selected one or into folders.

How to access the index cards on the corkboard?

Tap the “card” buttons you can find on the right of binder rows. You can edit the content of index cards and Notes Writer Pro will sync them too. Tap the icon on the top left corner of each index card to open directly the full document. Navigate to other folders by tapping the card name label.