Post-it PopNotes iPad/iPhone App Review.

I ♥ Apps! They come in all shapes and colors and you can find one for pretty much any need imaginable. I especially ♥ organizational apps. I also ♥ Post-It Notes. Those sticky little reminders that I can place all over my house for the entire family to be reminded of important tasks. Imagine my excitement when I found out two of my greatest organization tools have joined together! I heard angels singing and harps playing. {{{AHHHHHH!}}}}} Joy!

Post-It has created the Post-it PopNotes  App, currently for iPad and iPhone but coming soon for Android and Windows phones. This cool app lets you create virtual Post-It notes and either keep them all for yourself OR share them with your friends or locals. Locals? Yup! You can set your notes so that only you can see them. You can set your notes so that your PopNotes friends can see them. And you can set your notes so that anyone local, who has the app, can view them/ This would be a FANTASTIC way to advertise a yard sale or other public event. You can set a reminder and also an expiration. If you have an event in one month, you can set the app to remind you and then expire itself afterwards so you can set it and forget it. You can also track reviews and recommendations left by other users within 500 yards of your location with the interactive map. So cool!

Here are some screenshots of the PopNotes App in actions. View the thumbnails below and then read the notes for each photo below that:

1.  There is a navigation menu along the bottom where you can “write” with you finger or stylus, type your text, choose one of three font sizes and lastly, choose the color of your note.
2. There are 3 sizes of fonts but I’ve noticed you can only enter up to eight lines of text with any of the sizes. You can, however, “write” in the additional space with your finger or stylus.
3. View each single note with a listing of them all along the left side.
4. View all of your notes as if they were on a pin board.
5. In the 4th photo you can see I was able to create an invitation for my PopNotes friends to see, a shopping list, text, a note with text and a doodle, and just writing with my stylus.

View your friends notes on the local map

You can create PopNotes in 9 different colors including:

1. 3M Yellow
2. Neon Green
3. Aqua Marine
4. Neon Orange
5. Canary
6. Electric Blue
7. Poppy
8. Fuschia
9. Concord

Likes:

1. I love how easy this app is and have found it very useful. I like being able to set reminders and expiration dates.
2. I also like being able to see all my notes at once or sort through them on the left side of the screen.
3. I love the colors and that I could color code my notes if I chose to use them that way.
4. I LOVE that you can type and write/draw on them. This make it so user-friendly, being able to customize them.

Dislikes: I can’t really call these dislikes, just additions I would love to see added.

1. It seems to be limited in the amount of corrections you can make on the writing portion. If I drew a doodle and then decide to correct all but the first part, I couldn’t. It only let me “undo” 3 or 4 times. I also don’t see a way to edit a note once you have published it.
2. I would like to be able to go back and edit details that might change without having to create a whole new note.
3. The last thing I would like to see changed is setting the location. I can only set it to a local location. I’d love to be able to create a note for, say, an upcoming vacation in another state. It would be neat to set that city as the location along with a date and time of your arrival. If you are meeting friends there, then you could all share the note.
4. I’d like to be able to change the font size on different portions of each note, not just the entire note. And different fonts would be cool too!

Overall, I am really loving this app and even with the additions I’d like to see, it is still super handy and makes creating notes a breeze! The very best part…. it’s completely FREE! I can’t wait for the Android version to come out so I can put it on my phone as well. I hope you can sync between the two versions!!!

Post-it® PopNotes – 3M Company is available at the iTunes store.

Price: FREE

Disclosure: Although this app is free, I was asked to write a review. No monetary compensation was received, although I do usually charge a small fee for sponsored posts. I enjoy sharing free iOs/Android apps with my family and friends. All opinions are strictly my own.