Metamoji’s Note Anytime: Handwritten Notes on Your iPad
Readers may remember last year when we featured Metamoji’s 7notes iPad application, which conveniently converts your handwriting into text. Recently, the company also pushed out a similar note-taking application called Note Anywhere. And so far, Note Anywhere has been performing pretty well.
After about a week at number one in Japan as the top free app overall, it’s currently ranked ninth — although it is still first in the ‘productivity’ category. It appears to be catching on in the US market as well, and is currently number eight in the ‘productivity’ category there.
Readers may remember last year when we featured Metamoji’s 7notes iPad application, which conveniently converts your handwriting into text. Recently, the company also pushed out a similar note-taking application called Note Anywhere. And so far, Note Anywhere has been performing pretty well.
After about a week at number one in Japan as the top free app overall, it’s currently ranked ninth — although it is still first in the ‘productivity’ category. It appears to be catching on in the US market as well, and is currently number eight in the ‘productivity’ category there.
Metamoji Note Anytime: iPad用の手書きメモ
手書き文字をテキストに変換できるiPad アプリのMetamoji ７Noteを紹介したのを読者は覚えているだろう。近日、この会社は、Note Anywhereという同種のメモアプリを発表した。今の所、Note Anywhereは非常によく機能している。
日本の総合無料アプリランキングで1週間連続でトップの座に輝いた後、現在は第9位にランクインしているが、それでも「生産性」分野では依然として1位を獲得している。アメリカ市場でも徐々にと上位に食い込んでいるようで、現在「生産性」分野で第8位だ。
総合トップ無料アプリとして日本でナンバーワンで約一週間後、それは現在9位にランクいる - それが "生産性"のカテゴリにまだ最初ですが。それだけでなく、米国市場で人気を集めているように見え、そこに'生産性'カテゴリに現在ナンバーエイトです。
In contrast with 7notes, this new application not only lets you jot down notes by hand, but also lets you combine that with sketches, images, digital text, and other web content to create and share documents. While there isn’t the text conversion feature that we saw in 7notes, the floating palette interface makes it easy to write notes in different styles and colors.
Upon opening the app, you’re presented with a choice of note layout templates. From there you can take notes with your finger or with a stylus, although I recommend the latter if you’re going to be using it extensively. Your handwriting becomes a vector graphics element, which you can drag around the canvas an manipulate in many ways. If you’d like to add images from the web or your camera roll, you can do that as well.
Once you’ve finished, there are a number of sharing/export options, including social networks like Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr, email, or send to your photo album or print.
一度終わったら、TwitterやFacebook、Tumblrのや、電子メール、のようなまたはあなたのフォトアルバムやプリントに送るソーシャルネットワークを含む共有/エクスポートオプションがいくつかあります。
Of course the 7notes application was far from free at $7.99. So I found it curious that Metamoji had taken a different pricing approach with Note Anytime. Kyosuke Tsuda of Metamoji explained a little more about this decision:
Through our experience with 7notes, we learned that for the global market, even a $1 charge is not good [if we want] to expand our customer base. [So] we decided to follow Freemium strategy. Our strategy is not just on selling add-on of apps but extend server features after we launch Note Anytime for Windows 8, iPhone, and Android, [which is] planned within the next several months.
7notesでの経験を通して、グローバル市場において顧客を拡大したいと思うなら$1でさえもいいと値段と言えないと学んだので、当社は無料戦略に従うことに決めた。当社の戦略は、アプリのアドオンだけを販売するのではなく、今後数ヶ月中にNote AnytimeをWindows 8, iPhone, アンドロイドへ拡張した後に提供するサーバー機能を拡大する事だ。
7notesとの経験を通じて、我々はグローバル市場に向けても、1ドルチャージが良くないことを私達の顧客基盤を拡大するために[私たちが望むなら]が学んだ。 [SO]、我々はフリーミアム戦略に従うことを決めた。当社の戦略は、ちょうど我々は、Windows8は、iPhoneとAndroid、[ある]今後数ヶ月以内に計画されたためにいつでも注意を起動した後のアプリのアドオンを販売ではなく、サーバーの機能を拡張できません。
As you can see, Metamoji’s aspirations extend even beyond the iPad, and it will be interesting to see how their plans go. To learn more about how the application works, you can check out the promo video below, or see their assortment of tutorial videos for the application.
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