Color Note is a simple notepad app. It give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, email, message, shopping lists and todo lists. Color Note makes taking a note easier than any other notepad apps.
***Notice***
If you cannot find widget, please read below FAQ. It is not a bug.
***Features***
-Organize notes by color
-Sticky Note Widget
-Checklist for ToDo & Shopping list
-Organize your schedule in calendar
-Protect your notes by passcode
Password Lock/Unlock note
-Secured backup notes to sd storage
-Supports online back up and sync. You can sync notes between phone and tablet.
-Reminder on status bar
-List/Grid View
-Search notes
-Notepad supports ColorDict Add-On
-Powerful Reminder : Time Alarm, All day, Repetition.(lunar calendar)
-Quick memo / notes
-Wiki link : [[Title]]
-Share notes via SMS, email, twitter
-Use color to categorize notes.
*** Online backup and sync cloud service ***
-Notes will be encrypted before uploading using the AES standard, which is the same encryption standard used by banks to secure customer data.
-It does not send any of your notes to server without your signing up.
*** About Permissions ***
-Internet Access : For online backup & sync
-Modify/delete SD card contents : For backup to sdcard
-Prevent phone from sleeping, control vibrator, automatically start at boot : For reminder
***FAQ***
Q : How do you put sticky notes on the home screen?
A : Goto home screen and long press empty space and choose widget, Color Note will be there for sticking on page.
Q : How come the widget and the alarm and remider functions don't work?
A : If the app is installed on the SD card, your widget, reminder and etc. will not work properly because Android doesn't support them! If you have already moved app to SD card, but you want those features, you have to move it back to device and reboot you phone.
Settings - Applications - Manage Applications - ColorNote - Move to Device
Q : Where is backed up notes data at sdcard?
A : /data/colornote on sdcard
Q : I had to reinstall color notes notepad and there is an automatic backed up notes data that was stored but it requires a password and I hadn't set one up in the past. How do I retrieve that information?
A : Try default password '0000' (numbers)
Q: I forgot my master password, how can I change it?
A: Menu -> Settings -> Master Password -> Menu Button-> Clear Password. You will lose current locked notes when you clear password!
*** Product Description ***
Color Note notepad features two basic note taking formats, a lined-paper styled text option and a traditional checklist option. Add as many as you want to your master list, which appears on the app's home screen each time the program opens. This list may be viewed in traditional ascending order, in a grid format, or by the color of the note.
- Taking a Note -
Serving as a simple word processing program, the text option allows for as many characters as you're willing to type with your device's virtual or physical keyboard. Once saved, you can edit, share, set a reminder, check off or delete the note through your device's menu button. When checking off a text note, the app places a slash through the list's title, a mark that shows on the main menu.
- Making a To-Do List -
In the checklist mode, you can add as many items as you'd like and move their order around with the up and down buttons activated in the edit mode. After the list is finished and saved, you may check, and uncheck, each line on your list (from grocery store items to household chores) with a quick tap that generates a line slash. If all items have been checked, the list's title is slashed as well.
When you're finished using the notepad, an automatic save command preserves your individual note before returning you to Color Note's homescreen.
Keywords : Notebook, NotePad, Notes, Shopping List, ToDo List, 2do, Calendar, Evernote, Task, Memo, Sticky Note, Post It, notes, notepad, evernote
Recent changes:
3.6.2
- Quick bug fixes
+ Honeycomb bug in settings
+ Sort by reminder bug
+ Reminder dismiss bug
** If you cannot find widgets, you have to move the app back to device in application settings and reboot you phone! **
3.6.0
- 2x2 note widget added
- Supports online backup and sync
+ Uses internet permission
+ It doesn't send any notes without your signing up
+ Notes will be encrypted using the AES standard, which is the same encryption standard used by banks to secure customer data.
Content rating: Everyone... Read More
ColorNote Notepad Notes: A smartphone must, even with its simplicity
OSBOR reviews;
COLOR NOTES
HEY YOU
have some minor memory problems? remember something one second and then forget it moments later while talking to somebody? do you get easily sidetracks? colornotes will save your <insert important long-term commitment or rear-end region here>
Colornotes is basic, like REALLY basic. It's simply a way to record bite-sized bits of information for later use. this is all done in a very minimal and clean interface, no frills, and no bells.
the main screen when entering notes
as you can see, very straightforward and intuitive; to put everything into "edit mode" one simply taps the little pencil icon on the upper right. this enables you to make changes; either adding new notes or new checklist items, editing current ones, or moving things up and down in priority.
there are two "types" of notes which you can make, checklists and notes. Checklists are the stronger of the two for everyday use. each entry can be edited or added to, and when not in edit mode, can be "checked off" by simply tapping on the item. FANTASTIC for grocery lists or during particularly hectic work days.
Notes are just a way to organize snippets of data. Useful, but i hardly used it next to the sheer might of checklists.
the checklist system, and widgets
as seen above, the "color" bit from color notes comes from the widgets the app uses. When making a new note or checklist, you name it (like "groceries", or "reasons i need a phone from Phandroid's review contest"). Then, when you attempt to add a colornotes widget to your homescreen, it will prompt you with which one to make a widget of. And of course the notes can be set to different colors.
While this is incredibly useful if you have more than one note at a time, there is no larger widget to display a scroll through of a list of any kind. A wasted opportunity really.
PROS;
-efficient, clean, lightweight.
-incredibly useful for just about anything.
CONS;
-none
GRIPES;
-no widgets other than tiny icons for notes? ehhh
THIS APP GETS 4 VIBRANTLY TINTED SLABS OF CELLULOSE PULP ..... OUT OF 5
Osbor is a rather desperate applications reviewer, and takes this time to plead with the godlike figures that operate the website upon which this review is posted, pleading for the opportunity to drink of the font of android devices that is this review contest. (and of course this frivolous afterword will be removed should he win).
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Is there a help application for ColorNotes? I realize it's quite user-friendly... but once I add something to "check list" I'm not sure how to "enter" it without ending up with "strikeout" on my text. Please advise??!! anybody?
I'm looking for the notecolor files in my SD card and I don't find them. I find the folder "/data/colornote" but it doesn't have any file, only another folder "/data/colornote/backup" with 4 files inside: 1308023722144-AUTO.idx, 1308109204326-AUTO.idx, 1308023722144-AUTO.dat, 1308109204326-AUTO.dat.
I would like to have my notes written with notecolor in my W7 PC. Does anyone know where to find the files? Can I use these files on my PC with notepad or any other app?
How do I retrieve notes backed up on SD card when I get a new phone??
PLEASE help! The notes are on the SD card, and I got a new phone. I re-installed the app and I cannot find out how to get my backed up notes onto the new phone!!!! GRRRRR! What is the point of backing it up on the SD if there are no import choices in settings?!
I have the Thunderbolt, and can't even find a way to open the SD card from the phone other than for pics and vids.
Vegas
I am having the same exact problem and no one seems to be able to tell me how to fix it! Soooo frustrating! I have an evo I emailed the app developer on the 5th of Aug and then again on the ninth and then again today asking for help and so far Ive gotten NO response at all HAve you been able to resolve your problem?
Nice app with many features. The requirement to add a "Subject" is a show stopper. I need something quick and easy without all the bells and whistles. So deleted this app and have been using seNotes.
I have not tried it yet but I just downloaded Astro file manager (free)which promises to allow you to send SD files to your phones apps. That helps with the lost back ups, yes?
Yes. I did figure everything out and I am hoping by now you have too! I didn't get an email that others had posted to this thread. So sorry!
Anyway, people were saying it was easy because yeh... it was. lol
When you are in the settings>backup - the backup button does just that, it backs it up. But when you put the app on a new phone, and click "backup", it pulls up the long list of backups from the SD card. Choose the latest one and there ya have it. HOWEVER, for some reason it tends to lose a few note changes that were made in the past couple of days, even though the backup is since like 3 am... so be prepared, and as a precaution you may want to email each note to yourself just in case.
I now do the colornote online sync/backup update... and before you get frustrated on wondering how to get to THIS backup... it really does work. Once you install the app on the new phone>settings>backup and log in... the notes are imported.
If for some reason you want to go back to the SD card backup vs online, click on the "online backup" where it has your email etc, menu>sign out. WARNING - for some unknown reason this deletes all of your notes! So send them to your email or something first.
Hey all, I just got this app and I agree its awesome I really love the features.
I'd rather back up my notes to my email. I synced the app to my gmail account. But I can't seem to find it in my gmail. Can anyone tell me where I can find the synced / backed up notes in my gmail?!
Incase I'm misunderstood, What I would like to do is to view my notes on gmail and maybe edit my notes from there so it syncs to and from my phone and gmail?
THANKS
Yours Sincerely, EPowerOfAwesome.
Last edited by EPowerOfAwesom; October 15th, 2011 at 10:31 AM.
Hey all, I just got this app and I agree its awesome I really love the features.
I'd rather back up my notes to my email. I synced the app to my gmail account. But I can't seem to find it in my gmail. Can anyone tell me where I can find the synced / backed up notes in my gmail?!
Incase I'm misunderstood, What I would like to do is to view my notes on gmail and maybe edit my notes from there so it syncs to and from my phone and gmail?
I'm using Springpad now. I read somewhere that it only syncs with G-mail but it doesn't allow you to see it on G-mail and you can't edit it as and when you want from G-mail and on your phone as well and constantly sync. I downloaded all the top note pad apps and finally settled down on Springpad. Hope this helps. Cheers!
I have been using ColorNote since version 2.1.1 and love it. I especially like how you can save "sticky notes" to your home screen. Also how ColorNotes have hotlink capabilities when you save a phone number, or url, etc
What happend to making large widgets, The only widget size i can make now are 1x1 or 2x2? I used to be able to make a 2x4 widget for my large grocery list.
Yesterday updated from the original Droid to the Galaxy Nexus. I love my ColoeNotes App but because the new phone does not have a SD Card I am having trouble transferring my notes to the new phone. I had a similar problem when I had to replace the original phone with another Droid because I broke it, but because it had a SD card it was just a matter of figuring out the proper sequence of steps (which is a counter-intuitive set up, FYI). I have tried copying the files from the old phone to the new one through the data cables, but they still don't show up in under the Backup menu in the app on the new phone. Can you please help me? Thank you in advance if you can.
Device(s): Motorola Backflip; Motorola Atrix 4G and Lapdock
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Try this. Create a folder saying "ColorNote Back Up" on your computers, etc. Desktop. Connect the USB data cable to your old phone, then to the computer. Open up the storage location file that has the ColorNote backup files. You can find this in the data> Colornote> backup. (Just copy the colornote file over to the file you created on your desktop computer.) Unmount the old phone and mount the new phone using the data cable. Open the file manager on the new phone and see if there is a "data" folder. If it is, then just drag and drop the colornote backup file from the desktop file over to the data folder on your new phone. (Make sure to click the folder to make sure the files copied over.) Unmount the new phone, open colornote and see if you have a tab for restoring from backup. (You should be prompt to enter a password.)
I ended up having to "copy and paste" the files (alone, not inside a folder) into the folder the app created. Then go into the Backup menu and restore each note one at a time.
Yeah, privacy. It's probably all gone by now. But I still try.
I'm only using Evernote for my "to-do" and shopping lists. I'm using it because it has the cloud server and I don't have to do anything to sync data between the PC and phone.
But, although it does accomplish the sync, Evernote checklists look absolutely terrible on the phone and not much better on the computer. I've yet to find something I really like.
ColorNote Notepad Notes: A smartphone must, even with its simplicity
HAve you been able to resolve your problem?
Help please!
Where is the online backup? (Google Tasks sync?)
