AK Notepad

by Android Tapp Jan 19, 2009 5:00 AM – 30 Comments

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With the app, you can write anything you want. Set a reminder based on your note, send your note by SMS or email. You can stik a note on your home screen for easy access. You can also customize the notes appearance and also sort or search notes by title. All with LED Notifications. For more visit http://www.kurniadi.org/aknotepad

AndroidTapp.com Review:

Features:

AK Notepad Android App allows you to keep your mobile life organized. Quickly jot notes with a bunch of features such as sharing via SMS text or email, window shade and LED notifications, Export to text file on the SD Card, or Stick-It (creates a shortcut to your note on the desktop).

A great feature enhancement would be if AK Notepad could integrate with Gmail’s new Tasks feature.

: AK Notepad Notes

: AK Notepad New Note

: AK Notepad Edit Title

: AK Notepad Set Reminders

: AK Notepad Notification in Android Window Shade

: AK Notepad New Note with Menu Options

: AK Notepad Send by Email or SMS Text

: AK Notepad Settings Menu

Usefulness:

AK Notepad is a useful Android App for quickly jotting notes and staying organized with notifications

Ease of Use:

AK Notepad is very easy to use, if your notes list become too long, you can easily Search notes by simply typing the title you’re looking for as it filters.

Gripe alert: When you check “Auto Link” in the Settings menu AND create a multi-line note, there is a slight usability quirk when you revisit the note to to Edit it, you can’t scroll to the point you want to edit easily.

Frequently Used:

Taking advantage of the “To-Do” capabilities of AK Notepad could make it a frequently used Android app.

Interface:

The user interface is simple. In the settings, you can change the look of your notes window; colors and lines, etc.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

Average 3.7 out of 5 Android Tapps! (3.7 out of 5)

Should you Download AK Notepad? Jotting… YES with magenta LED notification in 5 minutes!

Developer: Andrew Kurniadi

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30 Comments

By Roy on June 6, 2009 at 1:59 pm:

I backed up several notes from AK Notepad on my SD Card, and put the new SD card in my new G1 phone after my old one broke. Now I can’t find AK Notepad on the marketplace. Does anyone know where it is? I’d like to retreave my old notes

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By Android Tapp on June 6, 2009 at 9:35 pm:

@Roy You know those text files can be copied to your computer and open in NotePad. Also, hopefully you can find AK Notepad in the Market. We’ve recently added QR Codes in our reviews so scroll up to the “Post Details” and see the funny bar code? Using an app called “Barcode Scanner”, scan that on your PC with your phone and it should take you directly there. If you’re viewing this page on your phone, simply tapp the QR Code for the same thing.

If you still can’t find it, check if you’re running Android 1.5 or “Cupcake”. Google recently added a way for developer to target the firmware version of Android phones.

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By Kay on June 11, 2009 at 12:46 am:

I can’t find AK Notepad in the Market Place either. I really want it back. I’ve typed in everything possible in the search but nothing pops up. and I’ve even searched through everything and even by date

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By joey alison sayers on June 11, 2009 at 9:31 am:

I love this program. I’m wondering why “menu-z” doesn’t work as undo. Is there another shortcut that provides that function?

Otherwise, it’s perfect!

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By Sally on July 23, 2009 at 6:47 am:

Please help. I cant find the AK notepade in the market anymore.. I got a different color G1 and now cant find Ak notepad. can I ad to my phone another way??? Its a must have app for me. Thanks!!

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By Lady Di on August 16, 2009 at 9:55 pm:

One of my fav apps. Very easy to use.

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By Pribbz on October 23, 2009 at 4:39 pm:

How do i take text from my cpu and put it on my ak notepad. I need the notes for a test tomorrow please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By Scrappy on November 22, 2009 at 8:53 pm:

Program works great! Would like to scroll through a note at a faster speed if possible. And also, a find or find/replace feature while in a note would be nice as well. Any plans on updating features?

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By hobbsfarm on February 9, 2010 at 10:38 am:

Enjoyed AK Notes on my Droid, Droid broke, got new Droid, reinstalled AK Notes, ALL NOTES GONE?? Tried to import notes off SD card. There was nothing to import. Do I have to manually go in and save to SD card? Thought that was a default setting. Are they lost forever? or am I missing something here?

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- By lance on March 9, 2010 at 10:51 am:
  
  I have the same exact problem…. would love to hear a fix.
  
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By Herb on April 30, 2010 at 5:05 pm:

After you have finished typing your note what do you do to save it and close program?

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- By Dan on June 4, 2010 at 2:56 pm:
  
  All I did was to make sure you have a title and when I am done hit the home buttom. Walah.
  
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By Rxt on August 11, 2010 at 7:05 am:

I like this app. I’m used to the iphone notes alternative, and this comes close. Several things could be improved. The most important for me is the standard action. Now if you set it to “view”, you cannot edit the note by tapping the screen. You need to open the menu first and choose edit there. If you set the standard action to “edit”, the keyboard opens and half the note disappears.

I suggest a third option: view&tap-to-edit, which means that the note opens without keyboard, and one tap on the screen opens the keyboard.

Another annoyance is the title. In iphone notes, the first line is used as title. In AK Notepad it seems like the first xxx characters are shown. So take the following example:

Test title
Some more text
And more

This results in the title “Test title Some more text And”. The title should be “Test title”. Then it would be handy to create another option, to use the first line as title, so editing that first line changes the title. This can be optional of course if people prefer the separate title field.

Now I enter a title, press the back button twice to go back to the list, then open the item, remove the title on the first line, and start typing. Not exactly user friendly in my view.

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By ome on October 26, 2010 at 4:18 pm:

I like this application a lot. I put all my important notes here. Then my daughter accidentally delete my notes. Is there a way I can retrieve my notes?

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- By rxt on October 27, 2010 at 8:48 am:
  
  Your notes are probably saved as text files on the sd-card of your phone. The only option I see is the take the card out, then try to recover the removed files. On a Windows PC (with a card reader) there are several apps for this, probably on the mac as well.
  
  Another option, for the time being, is to take the card out, make an image of the card (a bit-for-bit copy) and use that to recover the text files later. That way you can put the card back into your phone.
  
  If you don’t know how to do these things, find someone who knows what he/she does, because you can mess up things.
  
  I don’t know how important those files are, and how many you’ve lost. In the future you could sync the files with the built-in option to save them online.
  
  And you’ve just learned the lesson of making backups, well – of not making them. Be happy that it’s just a few notes, not your family album with all your photos of the past years. Make backups, and make several on different media (online and offline), of all your data, phone or computer.
  
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By paige on November 13, 2010 at 6:28 am:

i tried to send a note in an email n the note deleted. is there any way i can recover it?

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By Ric on November 15, 2010 at 3:22 pm:

I have a Droid x and in it AK NOTEPAD I really like it for my important notes.

My Droid x just when I wanted to send in a report using my data in my notes the Droid X would not boot up.

Droid X just goes to the M logo then to Droid splash and then Droid Red Eye ball and cycles in that mode constantly.

I have tried Verizon & Motorola and now decided to see if you can help me retrieve my notes.

Does Ak Notepad save to the SD card, all I ever did was move out the a note and it saved automatically did this function save it to the SD card ?

I have noticed in one other post someone moving the SD card to a PC reader? TO retrieve deleted notes

I am patient but this is a real bunch of BS on the part of Motorola & Verizon

Thanks in advance:

Ric

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By Jenny on January 27, 2011 at 8:13 am:

I think AK Notepad is a good tool for making notes, but I would like to be able to postpone a reminder if I choose to do so. As it is now, this reminder is almost “hiding” and is very easy to miss. I would like it to show on the desktop screen so you just cannot miss it and force you to press OK or to postpone the reminder. I would like to be able to postpone it for 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours and then also to be able to customize when I want it to remind me instead. If that would be possible in the next upgrade, that would be great

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By JIm on February 22, 2011 at 12:29 pm:

This app has a real problem with voice input. It will not save.

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By Xaris on March 7, 2011 at 3:40 pm:

I am quite found of AK Notepad. It was working fine, and still does, but a few weeks ago the LED stopped notifying me of a note reminder. The ringtone still works so nothing impotent missed, yet. But if one day I don’t haven my phone with me I will most definitely miss the note notification. I use a Nexus One, and I was thinking maybe the Light Flow LED control application interferes with AK Notepad.

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By Elaine on March 15, 2011 at 10:13 am:

Well thank goodness. I’ve been looking for this. All I wanted was a simple, quick text based place to jot stuff down. None of this fancy hoo haa with wireless interface that doesn’t work when you need it most. No more digging in the bottom of my bag for a pen that stops writing in the middle of a sentence or scribbling on my hand for lack of paper.

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By nick on March 17, 2011 at 12:30 pm:

AK notepad is a piece of garbage. I went to a jazz show for my history of jazz class and took notes on it. They did not get saved and I lost all my notes and now I have nothing to write my paper about because AK IS A PIECE OF CRAP

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By Hugo Calazans on April 13, 2011 at 11:34 am:

I have been using AK Notepad and my Catch.com account fully integrated for the past few months. During this period of time, I was always able to synchronize the contents that came from one way or the other with no further problems. Nevertheless, after having replaced my Android mobile phone by a new device which I have just bought, the mentioned synchronization has not been working well anymore. Now, I am not able to visualize on the AK Notepad app the notes available in Catch.com (not the ones that existed before the purchase of the new Android phone, nor the new ones I create now) anymore. The only feature that works is the following: if I create a note in AK Notepad and then edit it in my Catch.com account I will perceive the alterations back in my Android phone. None of the other use cases of the software will work. Could anyone please help me with that?

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