iPad Apps for College Students?!

Google this post title and you get a LOT of crap. I finally realized that I had to be more specific to avoid lists full of games and Wikipedia apps, and started searching for “best note taking apps ipad.” The results were varied, and deciding on a single app didn’t seem possible.

An inherent flaw of the iTunes store, and apps in particular, is that your only indication of how good or bad an app might be is the reviews left by users – who are mostly lazy, and likely won’t leave one unless they have a problem. So I bought way too many of them, and can now provide you with the dirt on several really good iPad note-taking apps, including the good, the meh and the “WTF?!”

This week I’ll be posting in-depth reviews of SoundNote, CourseNotes, LiveNote and a couple other iPad apps that a college student may want to consider. I can already tell you that which app you want depends on the type of class you’re in, as well as how important “prettyness” and exportability are to you.

One last note –  these posts are from the perspective of and iPad-only student. I have no iPhone or sexy Mac to sync, so the ability to get notes into an XP machine definitely matters.