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hey guys it's Joe for pocketnow.com and one of our last videos was about Evernote which is a note-taking app for almost every platform desktop and mobile that synchronizes your notes to the cloud it's available in both free and premium versions so they call it freemium but it does cost money to do some of the cooler things well luckily one of you guys took me up on my challenge and told me what you use rather than Evernote to take notes in this case it's a keynote by capcom but I've also got a little bonus for you let's go take a look okay are you familiar with UNIX in UNIX they have one overriding philosophy do one thing and do it very very well so you don't have applications just coming out the wazoo in a UNIX environment that do one and only one thing well over in Android we have a lot of stuff that does a lot of things in fact when you saw my Evernote video Evernote takes notes but it also syncs to the cloud and it has notebooks and it has tagging and it has OCR and it has just tons of stuff well this is a Kay notepad you can find it in the market it is free it's by capcom as you can tell and it's very very basic you can come in and add a note and what this does is it brings up a very simple legal style notebook then you just tap in here and you write a note or you use your voice to dictate a note that's it pretty simple isn't it now once you set this up and it's a very easy setup procedure it's going to synchronize your notes with your catch comma count and you can see a nice little animation there and you can see I've got these two quick notes in here in fact this is the default one that says welcome to catch calm so let me just open that up and again something's wrong with my left hand I think it it doesn't tap very well but coming in here you can see first of all there's a hyperlink hyperlinks and email addresses automatically get well hyperlinked they get link to do whatever they're supposed to do so as you type them in it will automatically grab that for you next is if you want to provide a tag remember in Evernote there was tagging well there is over here too just put a hash symbol in front of your word and that makes it a searchable tag and it's kind of a way to loosely categorize things so very very cool there now one bad thing is if you take a look there's no way to put in a photo note there's no way to put in a voice note nothing like that but you'll notice this is quick photo note so let's open that up and it just this quick photo no there's nothing in there so let's go see how I did that and that's right back here so here's a K notepad and the icon is very similar to what you'd expect it to be and you know nice notepad here's it's big brother it's big brother is called catch and catch has this cool little icon it has a shortcut so if you want to add a shortcut to a new note just tap on shortcuts and scroll down here and choose a new note of course we've already done that you can do that as well with Evernote which is something I didn't show you in that video or you can just come in here and open up the app add a quick note or even add a quick photo note right there so let's go ahead and open up and just open up catch using the icon there now very very clean interface I'm really impressed with how this looks it's got not only your notes but also your tags so if we go into tags you can see all of the notes that we have provided a hash tag for I like this a lot better than I like the Evernote version of doing the same because your tags can be inside of inside of your text you don't have to supply them after the fact and possibly forget to insert them at all which helps with searchability notes are just like that in this case it's a little bit nicer view with a little bit of a tutorial down at the bottom so here's my welcome to catch like we saw in the other one so it has a little bit different view there we can add an attachment if we want or go in and edit the note if we want go back here and here is my quick note and you notice this little GPS icon a little place indicator that says that this has been tagged or geotagged and I just pulled a a note out of my or an image rather out of my my gallery couldn't think of what it was called there we can add textual notes and then of course we've got that now this is Jack spear Coe from the survival podcast which I really like there's even a survival app that I'll have to show you one of these times kind of cool teaches you how to plant gardens and do all kinds of other stuff but before we get too far off topic very easy very simple very good way and they didn't even shows the hyperlink location of where that picture was taken so still very very cool going back here you can see that we've done everything here in text notes we can add a gallery note which is exactly what I did there with my with my image I just tapped on that picked a photo at random for my gallery and it put it right into my notebook so very cool there put in a reminder note now that's just like it says you're setting a reminder for it so this is kind of crossing the line between just a notebook and more into a to-do list with alarms and whatnot so getting pretty close there we can also go into a voice note which I like that's basically just voice not dictation but voice recording so you can record what you want if you have to record a note really really fast put that up there into the cloud save it for later and you've got it so you can look at it later and then of course a camera note so that you can very quickly and easily grab something using your camera whether that's an advertisement or a picture or a crime in progress or you know whatever and then of course we have settings down at the bottom and this has everything that you'd expect your refresh intervals it's syncing and I've got a set to sync on launch what kind of connections you want to use whether you want to use Wi-Fi or data your account information yes you do have to have a catch com account I signed in with my Google account and then set up a CAPTCHA count so now all I have to do is log in with Google and it's good to go very very nice Google login integration there I like that quite a bit storage you can store your files over on your SD card which I would highly advocate to free up that very very valuable internal storage location tagging is off by the fault but of course I turn that on because I find that extra bit of metadata very very valuable now I did not show you this in a que but both of the apps have a passcode lock so you can actually lock your notepad I don't particularly like that because it's just locking one app I would much prefer that you lock your entire device with a code or at least with a pattern and that will help secure there but it's nice that they do offer that for you as well you can change your sort change of preview lines just all kinds of things that you can do export your settings to the SD card lots and lots of cool stuff and again very clean interface very nice widgets very nice icons of shortcuts but if you just want to go with the basic a.k notepad is it catch the Big Brother will do everything as far as I can tell that Evernote will do without having that premium cost associated with it so thank you very much for the tip about a king notepad it led me over to catch and they work together so that you can have a very quick very simple notepad or a very robust notepad and have the notes synchronized between the two again this video came from a viewer comment this is your opportunity to leave comments down below let us know what you use then right now we're on the note-taking thing but if you want to tell us some app that you like that we haven't covered please let us know tell us why it's awesome and what recommendations you have for it what what ways you use it in your life and maybe we can get a video out here just for you so showing off ake a notepad catch and catch comm for Pocket now I'm Joe Levi