PenUltimate

So this application is good enough for Evernote to buy, is it good enough for us to use? The answer is sure, it is a great application. But what is the application for?
The answer is that this application is used as a replacement for a notebook or sketchbook. Its main use is to hand write on the iPad. I have tried other handwriting applications on the iPad but I tend to write with my rest touching the iPad, which tends to make all the other applications fail. But not this application.

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This application has a built-in  preference that can be used to detect your wrist. Now I can write on my iPad the same way that I write on paper. As well as replacing my notebook, it also makes a great application for writing notes on drawings or on images.
I have noticed that I have started using this application several times a day, making it one of my most popular applications. I was reading that this is number four of the all-time popular iPad apps.
Penultimate is from a company called Cocoa box, but you buy the app on the App Store.

Once the app is installed, you open it by tapping on it once.

The heart of this application is a notebook. You can create several notebooks one for each topic.  When you look in your notebooks you see a thumbnail of the last page you were looking at.
Double tapping on a notebook will open it.

When you open your notebook you can start writing in it.  One of the questions I had when I started writing in my notebook was what should I used to write with. I tried using my finger on screen. It is very smooth and you finger glides across the glass, but my writing was terrible.
I am using a stylus to write in my notebook at the moment, and you may think my writing is still terrible, but it is a big improvement over just using my finger.

I use this image recently in one of my other blogs, but I created it worth penultimate.  penultimate allows you to import an image, either from the camera or from your photo library, and then draw over the image.  I find this really useful for analyzing what I want to change and making comments about.

The paper design for penultimate is changeable. It comes with several types of paper already (plain paper, lined paper, and so on), it also allows you to buy other types of paper, for example music paper, to do lists, and so on, and if you have a drawing program, like Vectorworks, then you can draw your own paper, save it as an image file and then the import it into penultimate.
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