We are pleased to announce that version 8.8 has been released. It has many enhancements and optimisations. New features include:
The latest update has a small enhancement to the bookmarking system in that it now includes 3d page turn animations. This means you can easily create your own eCards using a few bookmarks and then exporting to a movie or gif file.
The latest update has a new feature which lets you add values to a table and then create a graph, bar char or pie chart using the values. It is very easy to use, here is a video
The chart which is produced is selectable and transformable (move, scale, rotate) in the same way as all things in ZoomNotes. Its parameters can be changed whenever you like, things the style of chart, colours and fonts.
Another nice feature is that a link is maintained automatically between the table and the chart so that if you add not numbers, then the chart is automatically updated.
There are now a few very useful YouTube channels to help learn and get the most out of ZoomNotes. If you need a video to help with a particular aspect of ZoomNotes please do not hesitate to get in touch and suggest it.
We are pleased to announce that version 8.6 has been released. It has a new in-app help system which makes learning how to use the app much easier. There is now a ‘Basic’ and an ‘Advanced’ mode for settings which lets beginners see just the most important settings, making it much less daunting for people starting out on the ZoomNotes journey. In conjunction with that, each setting has a ‘?’ button which when pressed reveals a sentence about the setting. It also, where appropriate, reveals a ‘video’ button which takes you to a help video which describes/demonstrates the setting/feature.
ZoomNotes 8.5 has been released and many enhancement and refinements.
There have been improvements to the user interface and usability issues making the app easier to navigate and learn. These include new ‘favourites’ buttons for pen colours and pen thicknesses. In addition there is a new mode for menus which ‘auto-collapses’ sub-sections of a menu which again allows for much faster menu navigation.
There is a new 3d page turn mode which shows pages turning in 3d. This combined with ‘dutch-door’ pages gives a highly realistic paper planner/note book effect. For those who don’t know what a ‘dutch door’ is, this is when part of a page is cut away to reveal the next (or previous) page. ZoomNotes intelligently handles these cut away pages and allows you to write directly on the next/previous page.
ZoomNotes 8.4 had just been released and many enhancement and refinements. For instance there is now a ‘continuous scroll’ mode, either paged or non-paged which lets you smoothly scroll through a document whilst still annotating individual pages.
Adding links between pages and document has been made easier and now has a ‘Page Network’ visualisation function which lets you view the resulting network of linked pages.
Digital planning in ZoomNotes has seen many improvements too. ‘Goto date’ lets you quickly go to a page associated with a particular date, whilst ‘Migrate selection’ lets you quickly copy items in you planner to another page. Migration is a key step in the ‘bullet journal‘ method.
Also check out the ZoomNotes’ Facebook groups for lots of details and help on this update and all aspects of the app.
The latest update also contains many other improvements and optimisations.
ZoomNotes fully supports Pdf digital planner documents including the links which they may contain to jump between pages. The latest version also supports the display of events and reminders from the iOS apps (Calendar and Reminders) on such digital planners. For this to occur some configuration is required, and we have added a document describing the steps to follow – it is available in the ‘Help’ section. Alternatively if you have purchased the planner, the planner designer/retailer may be able to offer you a ‘configuration file’ which will do this setup automatically – please check with them.
Integrating events and reminders into your digital planner is a massive benefit and should help you stay more organised and to work more efficiently.
ZoomNotes 8.3 had just been released and contains full support for display of events (from the Calendar app) in digital planner documents. You can now generate a fully functional digital planner document, choosing the year and months you want it to cover along with many customisable parameters including font, colours etc. Events will automatically be shown in the planner along with the ability to add new ones and inspect existing ones.
This update also has made some big improvements to the digital planner creator, by allowing the use of symbols to define page layouts you can customise the planner pages to your own taste and needs. For instance you can add trackers and todo lists on to month, week or daily pages.
Also check out the ZoomNotes’ Facebook groups for lots of details and help on this update and all aspects of the app.
The latest update also contains many other improvements and optimisations.
ZoomNotes 8.1 had just been released and it contains a major new feature. This is a handwriting recognition engine which it can use to search through handwritten notes and pin point where key words or phrases are located. Searching can be performed as a ‘global’ search though all the documents, or within an individual document. The searching mechanism is integrated with ZoomNotes’ document folder and tagging system which all help to keep your notes super organised. It was also important that this new feature work with existing documents and we have made certain that this is the case.
In addition to searching, ZoomNotes now offers a handwriting to text conversion function which lets you select some text and convert it to text. This conversion can also be automatically triggered when dragging and stopping handwriting from ZoomNotes into another app which expects text to be dropped, for example the contacts app. So in this example you can write down a contacts name and number then drag this into the contacts app.
In a similar vein, this update also contains a ‘scanning’ module which lets you scan paper document into ZoomNotes and optionally use optical character recognition (OCR) on each scanned page to allow these to be ‘searchable’. ZoomNotes also allows you to apply OCR to any images you may already have and make these searchable too – for example a screen grab out of Safari can also be made searchable in ZoomNotes.
The latest update also contains many other improvements and optimisations.