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I can't say I found Dan's app all that useful. After trying it out for a while I "benchmarked" writing a text using the iPhone keyboard vs. writing with Dan's app. I found that I wrote slower using the Note Taker app than with the keyboard, and the text I produced with Note Taker was much more unreadable than the one I entered using the keyboard -- even though the keyboard text had some typing errors in it.

The biggest problem with Dan's app for me is that I can only produce a couple of consecutive characters before I have to break my flow. I constantly max out the jotting space and reach the rightmost end of the screen. Continuing to write to the left of the characters I just produced is so very, very unintuitive. I'd rather the characters I've finished writing automatically shift to the left so that my typing area is always in the middle of the screen. This way I wouldn't have to actively look for an empty space to jot my next character.



Just write in the gray box instead of scrolling (per the help doc).


That's what I was doing, and that's what I don't like. Continuing to write the word to the left of the part of the word I've already written -- that's not my cup of tea.




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