Notepad for Kindle (Kindle Utilities) (Kindle Edition)
March 15th, 2010
Product Description
This simple document, when transferred to your Kindle, provides you with a place to record and keep personal notes. Just click on one of the sixteen preset note locations after opening Notepad and select “Add Note.” Input your thoughts, ideas, or reminders and click “Done.” Then, when you return to Notepad, you can read your notes by selecting “My Notes and Marks” from the menu. Just click on any note icon to edit or delete. Make your Kindle just a little more useful with Notepad from EduKindle.
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As an earlier comment noted, there is no documentation so I didn’t know if I was just missing something, but I thought I’d be able to create at least a simple grocery list. Doesn’t do that. Well, yes, I could put each grocery item in the 8 “notes” slots, but this tool just adds the little superscript “1″, “2″, etc., showing that there is a note attached. To actually see what you have entered, you have to select that superscript number, and then your content is displayed at the bottom of the screen. To see the next item, you’ve got to move the cursor. Or, you can put the entire list in one note, but then you can’t see the whole thing easily. If you put one grocery item per Note, you can use the menu to see all the Highlights, but again, that’s too many steps. I was hoping to just open the document and see the grocery list. I’m not sure why this is called an “application”, since it seems to be a Word document that someone is selling you to download. My $.02 is that it’s worth about $.10 (the cost of a download of your own doc), definitely not $.80. I’ve deleted this application and will create a doc with a design that I like, e.g. with the Note titles near the top, to save on cursoring, and will send it to my Kindle. Voila, same functionality, $.10 cost (if you spring for whispernet download.)
This product is not a true notebook. The description is a bit misleading because it sounds like you have a different sort of access or interface with their product. When I read that you would click on the note to “add note” and then click “done”, I thought there would be something new going on. All this product does is give you a place to add your typical “footnote” type Kindle notes.
This product is useful for those who are too lazy or uncomfortable using the USB interface and creating their own files for their Kindle. You could make yourself one of these files quite easily for less than $.80.
Tried it but was not impressed. Not sure it I was using it correctly since could not find any instruction. Bottomline, kindle is not a writing tablet yet.