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Unlocking Notes

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One of our design considerations for locking was that you shouldn’t have to be bothered by continuously entering your password each time you try to open a locked note in the same session. It’s the “in the same session” part that’s important. Once you’ve opened the first locked note, you won’t be prompted again for the same session.

There are a couple ways to end your session:
-leave the app (return to the home screen, or switch to another app)
-lock your device (sleep/wake button)

Our thought was that it’s still you using Mental Note in the same session, and so the app should be smart enough to know you’ve already entered the password.

The password protect feature is mainly intended to protect your private notes when other people are using your device. So if Mental Note is running, and you’ve already unlocked a note, lock the screen before you pass on your device, and you’ll ensure all your password protected notes are locked.

Mental Note for iPad

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Users describe Mental Note as “the future of note taking”, and “a big sketchpad… [to] free-associate and put stuff down in any format”. Mental Note for iPad brings the future closer with an even bigger sketchpad for you to capture your ideas on.

Turn your iPad into a digital notepad. Combine pictures, voice recordings, drawings and text – all on the same page, in any order you choose.

Mental Note for iPad will be available at the Grand Opening of an iPad App Store near you.

Here’s a preview:


Quickly switch between different toolbars

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When the toolbar slides into a different mode, the same toolbar button that was used to enter the new toolbar/mode can be tapped to exit that toolbar/mode. Toolbar buttons are “toggle-aware”.

For example:

Tap the sketch toolbar button to slide in the sketching toolbar. Tap the sketch button again to slide back to the main toolbar.
Tap the microphone toolbar button to begin audio recording. Tap the audio button again to stop recording.

Release 1.3

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An eraser, a highlighter pen, and some additional note backgrounds have been added to Mental Note 1.3 for iPhone & iPod touch.

The eraser button appears on the sketch mode toolbar. Tap the sketch toolbar button and the sketch related buttons slide on to the toolbar. The eraser button allows toggling between erase mode and sketch mode. Tap it once to begin erasing. Tap it a second time to exit erase mode.

The thickest pen width is now a highlighter. In sketch mode, tap the pen width toolbar button to switch to a different pen. An indicator has been added to the sketch button which indicates the currently selected pen width. The pen widths range from 0.5 to 5.0, and the highlighter width is indicated by an “H”.

Tip: Using the finest pen width works best for detailed handwriting (0.5).

Graph paper has been added as an option for the note background, in white or yellow. White lined and white plain paper backgrounds are also options. Find these configuration options in the Mental Note Settings screen which is currently accessed from your device’s main Settings/Preferences application, (the “gears” icon on your device’s home screen).

Read more on our facebook page. More features coming soon!

Release 1.1

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The 1.1 Release is now available. This release contains some of the most requested features including sketching in different colours and line widths, and typing notes in different fonts and sizes. A number of other enhancements and bug fixes have also been included. A new “Mental Note” section will appear in your “Settings” app when you install this update. Explore all the configuration options Mental Note now offers.

Both “Mental Note” and “Mental Note Lite” have been updated to version 1.1. If you upgraded to the full version from within Mental Note Lite, you may notice this Update is for the “Mental Note Lite” application. If you’ve already purchased the upgrade, installing this Update will automatically install the full “Mental Note” product.