[joshtrader]

I'm a little dissappointed that the nexus 4 doesn't come with stock notes or voice recorder on it. Was just wondering what alternate apps are you all using to take notes or voice? I know there is the note to self option but i preferred it to be offline or save it on the device instead of email.

[Michael Morris2]

I've been wondering the same thing. Apps like Evernote seem to be for people hwo take a lot of notes and need them organized, I just need a blank 1 sheet pad to write down my parking stall # and such.

[greydarrah]

I either use a free app called Voice Recorder, or I use the speech to text option to have it type notes in my TaskOS app or into Evernotes. As far as the parking stall # from the post above, I always take a picture of where I park. If you have record location turned on for your camera app, you can use the picture to navigate back to the parking spot if needed.

[CoMoNexus]

I'm a little dissappointed that the nexus 4 doesn't come with stock notes or voice recorder on it.

I was surprised, too, because my previous phone, the original EVO, came with one. Then I read this:



If this hypothesis is true, I wonder if Google and LG knew about this vulnerability and wanted to avoid it by not shipping the N4 with a recorder app preloaded.

At any rate, I just downloaded Smart Voice Recorder.

[jman1323]

I use colornote. Pretty basic note app with the ability of putting sticky notes and checklists on your home screen.

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[Nigel Howarth]

I'm using 'Auto Call Recorder' and 'Smart Voice Recorder' - both are free and work very well.

[PhxBlue]

I dont use voice recorders. I do however need a simple note taking app and so i use Notes by Nbit. Very simple and very clean and as a lil treat it will sync with dropbox to back up your notes if you so desire. Check it out.

[galatians51]

I have been using Handy Memo for those (ahem) handy memos. It has a voice recorder built in and allows scribbles or typing.

A good one for parking reminders is COL Reminder:

Neat one for us Jelly Bean users is Renotify+ (which is on sale), it allows you to create pinned notes in the status bar:

[Casey Rendon]

Springpad is my favorite for notes. It saves all notes online, lets you edit from any computer, and you can share notes with other people/allow others to edit your notes.

Hi-Q MP3 Voice Recorder is great for recording because it records directly into MP3 format. Pretty handy, and saves space.

[Jaysus]

I use colornote. Pretty basic note app with the ability of putting sticky notes and checklists on your home screen.

I use Colornote too... it is simple, which is all I have needed to date.

[gjbrns]

i need a simple note pad and simple voice memo function that doesn't do anything fancy like translate,send notifications, sync,organize,send to the web but just records it on the phone so i can find it offline later. can't nexus 4 do this? if not is there an app that will do this and just this? [ i'm beginning to hanker after my old windows phone]

[joshtrader]

very good suggestions, i think colornote is great for just taking plain notes, and will combine with evernote for multipurpose voice and snapshot note

[MythicVoid]

I sort of used Drive as my notes app, but with Google Keep now released, I'm going to switch with that. As a writer, it can really help me out. Offline editing!

[habskilla]

Google just released google keep.

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[joshtrader]

google keep is exactly what've been looking for, an app by google for notes and stuff
hopefully they going to embedded with the stock android on the next update

[runtmms]

I use color note for synced shopping lists with my husband. For anything else I'm going to start using Google Keep.

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[yfan]

I have used Evernote until now, but now taking Google Keep out for a spin. I'm excited!

[6tr6tr]

Use ColorNote + Swype Voice Dictation. Very accurate.