Paper Desk is a note taking app for the iPad that allows users to create digital notepads for taking notes. It has tools for typing notes, writing with a finger or stylus, recording audio that is synced to notes, adding photos, and sharing notes. The app allows users to easily organize their notes with bookmarks, to-do lists, and multiple pages. Help is available through an in-app user manual.

1. Paper Desk
A Note Taking App For the iPad
$3.99 in the App Store

2. • Paper Desk opens to a blank page.
Click the + sign to add a new notepad.

3. • Click inside the text box to bring up the
keyboard.

4. • Give your notepad a title and click
Create.

5. • To open your notepad, simply click the
icon. Click Edit to change the title.

6. • Once open, the tools for note taking appear
on the right. We are looking at this in
landscape mode, but it works in portrait mode
as well.

7. • Touching the screen will allow you to
type notes using the keyboard.

8. • Using the pen tool will allow you to
write with your finger or a stylus. This
takes some practice!

9. • Using the pen tool will allow you to
write with your finger or a stylus. This
takes some practice!

10. • The eraser will remove handwriting, but
not typed text. You can adjust the
eraser size easily.

11. • Simply rub your finger or stylus over
your handwriting to erase all or part of
it.

12. • The rainbow icon allows you to change
pen colors and sizes.

13. • Clicking the microphone brings up
buttons along the bottom of the screen.
You can record as you make notes.

14. • When you playback your notes, touching a
word you typed or wrote will jump the audio
to what was recorded at that moment.

15. • There are numerous ways to share
your notepad with others when you
click the envelope icon.

16. • The X icon allows for multiple one-
touch delete options.

17. • You can also bookmark sections of the
notepad to get back to places easily.

18. • One nice feature of this notepad is the
ability to add tasks or to-do lists
associated with your meeting notes.

19. • You can also add pictures either from your
library or camera. You could take a picture of
attendees, the notes on a whiteboard, or
handouts from the meeting.

20. • The up and down arrows scroll through
a single page. The left and right arrows
allow you to add pages as needed.

21. • Clicking the "i" icon at the bottom of the
screen will bring up the link to the
user's manual

22. • You will find a lot of your questions
answered in this space!

23. Questions?
Email tchilders@bradleyschools.org
(I will check it on my mobile device)