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IDEAZ app review: record your ideas paperlessly with text, audio, images, and even drawings

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Introduction

This is an app which boasts a simple yet incredibly powerful premise of enabling you to use gesture-based controls to leave quick notes for yourself. You get the option to adjust color schemes, add text, photos, and drawings, and even record short audio snippets for those burning creative ideas you just have to get down immediately.

This really is the kind of app which grows on me the more I use it.

At first I was thinking I’d just write out the review and then deleted IDEAZ because I didn’t think I’d have much use for it, but after experimenting with drawing and recording audio, I’m extremely impressed with what you can do with this app. I’ll definitely be keeping it on my iPhone for a while.

IDEAZ - Keep your ideas in one place

$0.99

Great IDEAZ!

I review many apps and I must be honest in saying that I only keep a small percentage of them for personal use because most are just not relevant to my needs or interests.

I often experience a transition with an app I end up keeping which usually starts as a no-I’m-not-keeping-this before turning into more of a maybe-I-can-make-use-of-this, and then as has been the case with IDEAZ, it finally evolves into how-did-I-live-without-this-app!

I’ve always got scraps of paper lying around on my desk, filled with reminders and to-do lists, wish lists, and all kinds of incomprehensible chicken scratch. I’ve struggled to find an app to remedy this that I really enjoy using but I think IDEAZ really hits the nail on the head.

 

Which Gesture?

One slight complaint I have about this app – and this could just be me being dense - is that the user interface, although very basic, leaves you more or less to guess how to navigate. There are some instructions provided when you first use IDEAZ but I’m still trying to figure out which gesture I need to make to access the drawing, audio, and photo insertion menu consistently.

Other than that small problem, this app could save you a lot of time and help to keep your workspace (and headspace) a little tidier while you order your thoughts and jot down ideas.

 

 

IDEAZ - Keep your ideas in one place

$0.99

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Use colors, text, photos, drawings, and audio to paperlessly record your ideas
  • Email your IDEAZ to others or to yourself for easy importing to your computer
  • No-frills user interface makes for a very smooth-running and reliable app overall

 

Cons

  • Navigation is a little confusing at first
  • No social media integration

 

Final Words

It might be the would be-yuppie in me but I love using little tools like this to streamline the way I process ideas and go about my daily work tasks. Having a simple resource like this to record the output of creative ideas is truly invaluable in my mind.

I’m still getting acquainted with the control system and navigation but this is a very minor chink in an otherwise fantastic app; the main addition I’d like to see is the integration of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram.

I think adding social media integration could really boost the popularity of this app and pave the way for collaboration with other developers for IDEAZ to work alongside other popular productivity apps.

IDEAZ - Keep your ideas in one place

$0.99
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MarkBangs

Mark is an opinionated writer who loves to review apps. In 2012, he started reviewing Apple apps on a regular basis and wonders how he survived up to that point without these apps.