Ink — Handwritten Notes

About Ink — Handwritten Notes

Ink 1.2 adds four things to every notebook: each page knows when it was written, tape to cover words, section tabs, and a proof that your notes are safe. Written On Every page remembers the day and hour it was written. Hold the page counter to see it. The page overview groups pages under day headers and shows the span of each sitting. Hold a finger on a word and a small caption in the ink's own colour tells you when it was written, with a play button when a recording covers it. Pages from before this version say "Before Ink kept time". Tape Pick Tape in the highlighter's popover and lay a paper-coloured strip over anything you want to learn. Tap a strip with a fingertip to lift it. Tape comes in three widths, hides the line it lies on, and behaves like any other stroke for undo and Time Travel. A page with tape on it becomes a Study card: Study lifts the strips one by one, and you grade once. Section tabs Choose Add Tab in the page overview and a small stub appears on the page's fore edge. Tap a stub to jump to that section. Tabs become chapters in exported PDFs and travel with the Ink Archive. Writing • Guided paper, a new paper whose lines appear under the pen as it touches the page and fade after it lifts. • Lift the Ink: hold a finger on empty paper and the ink fades so you can see the document beneath. It stays lifted while your finger rests. The export sheet offers Include my ink. • Write #word and it is a tag, listed beside links and exact in search. • Favourite pen presets: long-press to save colour-and-width slots in each pen's popover. Marker opacity comes in Light, Medium and Strong. • A notebook remembers which pen you used in it. • Following a [[link]] stays in place instead of reopening the editor. • Use any page as the notebook's cover. • A left-handed layout, in the toolbar's Customize popover. Finding and reading • When a search finds nothing, Ink shows up to three crops of handwriting that look close. Tap one to teach the page that word. • Page as Text: the page's words beside the page. Fix a misread line, then share the text. Recording • Record a Lecture in the New menu makes a dated notebook that starts recording on its first page. • Every page turn during a recording is a chapter. Each page has a Chapters list in the Recordings panel, and the transcript is grouped by page. • Recording cards take their title from the first phrase and show the pages they cover. Trim a recording by dragging the ends of its timeline; the file is never cut, so Undo is free. Playback controls appear on the lock screen. Study • Shuffle, Search, 20 at a time and Swap sides in the Study menu. Export cards as CSV for Anki. Shelf and overview • Choose Select in the shelf's sort menu to act on several notebooks at once. Long-press a page in the overview to select several, then Export, Move, Duplicate or Delete. • Quick Notes take their title from their first line. Trash rows show the days left and offer Delete Now. Keeping safe • Tap the Saved pill to see the proof: counters, the last backup and the last check, and what a clear or delete kept. • Once a week while charging, Ink can restore its newest backup into a separate copy and compare every stroke, so you know the backup can be restored. Turn it on in Settings › Storage, or choose Verify now. Accessibility and polish • Text size changes apply at once, without a relaunch. Bold Text and Increase Contrast are honoured. • Buttons look and behave the same everywhere, and every one is easy to hit. • The Early Access screen is shorter: three rows and Continue. • Settings says each fact once, and the support mail pre-fills your build number. • The New Notebook sheet fits the iPad mini in landscape, and the Couldn't save toast keeps its words together in a narrow window.

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The developer, Siroj Kasemrut, reported these privacy practices to Apple.