iPad The missing application

In the previous post I talked about the missing application.
What I want is an electronic version of my Moleskin book.
Notes are available on the iPad. Pages is a nice word processor. Think is the perfect GTD application.
But none of these allows what the moleskin allows.
I want to be able to draw, handwrite, maybe paste something from elsewhere.
I also want the context to stay.
What I mean is that when I’m looking for an address that was on the same page as the drawing I made of a horse, I want to find them together again.

Flipping through the pages I’ll recognize the drawing a lot quicker than an address scribbled down.
In short I want the unstructured information that I enter to remain that way.
It might not make sense for you, but for me it does.

Some interesting applications does part of this and are available for the iPhone.
NoteTaker from Software Garden is such an application. It enables handwriting or rather finger writing as well as drawing. It is a very interesting application, but unfortunately the iPhone screen is too small for me.

I hope that an iPad version will soon arrive. I’ll be amongst the first to try it.

You also find wondrous drawing applications for both iPhone and iPad. I highly recommend Brushes, but there are many other good ones out there.

I think that this is what Microsoft attempted with OneNote, without really succeeding. I think that it is more due to hardware than to the actual implementation of the concept.

One can hope that Apple has something like this up their sleeve.

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