Quick Drafts - Notes, Errands and Shopping List

I’ve been using this app for years, and overall it’s great. The one thing that makes me crazy is that the cursor bounces around wildly and for no good reason. For example, you might try to use the selection sliders to outline a particular piece of text, and it will fly up to the middle of the note randomly, forcing you to scroll back down and try again. This makes it frustrating when trying to copy and paste, and sometimes I feel like spiking my phone into the ground like a football, but it’s my only real complaint. Otherwise the app has lots of powerful features and a clean UI. If they fix that I will revise my review.

This app is example of the genius of simplicity. I didn't think I needed yet another notepad, checklist, nor messenger to Evernote. But QD is all of these and does the best job. It offers a blank page each time you call upon it, ready to capture the thought or idea (that will quickly fade and be lost altogether if you must spend time navigating to the right spot in order to begin capturing it). And yet it preserves any note you took before, careful not to overwrite anything. Then, if you start to see this thought is becoming a bullet list, no problem: just touch an arrow button to change it into a bullet list, or even a checklist. You can also use this button (same button = simplicity) to lead to all other options for sharing with others or with yourself for compiling with other ideas or for follow up/later use. I can put away my other notepad, checklist, messenger apps now. I only use this one. It's on my iPhone's home screen next to "Shazam" because I use it in the same way. I capture the title of a song I'm hearing before it's over, and I use QD to capture a notion before it fades from my consciousness. Simple. Useful. Elegant.

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I use this app all the time and had no problems before the last major overhaul. Now, suddenly, the app is unbelievably buggy. For example: after opening an existing note and trying to tap in the middle of the page to add text, it immediately scrolls all the way to the bottom. This sometimes happens repeatedly before I can get the cursor where I want it. It just keeps assuming I want the cursor at the bottom, no matter where I tap. Also, when writing a to-do list, text longer than one line will not display. Another irritating development is the "Make To-Do" button. If you have an existing note and accidentally click "Make To-Do," the list automatically converts to a to-do checklist with bubbles at the start of each line. That's not a big deal, because you can change it back, right? But when you try to hit the button again and convert it back, it doesn't exactly convert back -- now you have dashes (hyphens) at the start of each line. Please fix these small but very annoying new quirks!!! I used to love this app, but it has so many glitches now that it's hardly worth using.

I have used the iphone version for a long time now and love it. Now I have the ipad version too. I wrote the developer about the difficulty on my ipad, where the icons at the bottom sometimes get in the way of my typing. I also mentioned if he would consider adding iCloud. He thought it was a very good idea and said he would try to address it in the next update. I hope so, because that would make this fantastic app spectacular!!

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This version on iPad is ugly but I was willing to overlook that, initially when the app seemed to deliver what it promised. It doesn't. In principal and even upon first use, this app seems great - until I tried to do more than type and use the features it claims to have. If Quickdrafts worked as advertised, imho, it would be great but as said, it doesn't. Typing works well. It opens quickly to a blank page, shows word count (a personal like for me) and responds well. Linking was easy. Dropbox and Evernote confirmed linked successfully. So far so good. Then it's all downhill. 1) Send to Evernote error "could not post to Evernote" (with no explanation) 2) Open in (substitute any app here) give no response. Did the app freeze? I hit "cancel" and was taken back to the app. I tried again with same result. 3) Send via Email also does nothing. It opens a blank page pre filled with my email address and that's it. No text in the email body or attached. I hit "send" anyway, just to test, nothing happens. I waited, still nothing. What a shame. If Quickdrafts is great in theory but then I've got a great theory for world peace. Easy to learn. ✔︎ Easy to use. (In principal ✔︎/In Reality 🚫) Fast & Effective (In principal ✔︎/In Reality 🚫)