[real-eyes] Fw: Nebulous Notes - iOS note-taking app free for a day

"Andrea Breier" <abreier@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:49:22 -0500

Here is an excellent description of an app for the iDevices that you may 
want to check out It is free for a day so you will have to hurry.  .
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Esther" <moriond@xxxxxxx>
To: <mac-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:17 AM
Subject: Nebulous Notes - iOS note-taking app free for a day

> Hi All,
>
> I noticed that Nebulous Notes, which is reviewed by Rose at the AppleVis 
> site for iOS apps, is now gone free.  It typically only goes free for 24 
> hours, which means that it will probably continue to be free for about 
> half a day.
>
> What's interesting is a recent change that they made to the Settings menu 
> of this app that allows you to take advantage of features with improved 
> accessibility. At the time Rose reviewed an earlier version one year ago, 
> she wrote that the developer could have labeled one or two buttons more 
> clearly, but you could tell what they are.  Well, there is now a button in 
> the Settings menu that allows you to customize your Keyboard Utility Bar 
> with your own labels.  This Keyboard Utility Bar is normally toggled off, 
> and people have been using the app just for its ability to sync with 
> Dropbox, and also (in the case of low vision users), select very large 
> fonts for text (up to 50 pt), and choose the color of the text and 
> background.  But if you turn on the switch button for the "Keyboard 
> Utility Bar" that is the first item in the Setting Menu, you get a 
> "Customize Utilities" button that becomes undimmed just underneath this 
> switch.  And when you double tap that button, you get access to the list 
> of macros that are active as extended keys in the "Keyboard Utility Bar" 
> just above the top row of the virtual keyboard.  Now, you can edit the 
> list of active macros by double tapping the "Edit" button in the top right 
> corner of the "Macros" window.  That places buttons to activate the 
> "delete" option to the left of each macro.  I was going to delete some of 
> the keys with label icons that VoiceOver does not announce from the list 
> of active macros.  Then I found that to the right of each macro 
> description is a "Compose" button, and if I double tapped that button I'd 
> get an "Edit Macro" window. The first field would be "Text to insert:" and 
> would define a macro function.  For example, the first entry is "$undo", 
> and it's never announced by VoiceOver because the key uses an icon image. 
> This icon is given in the next field, which is "Alias:".  What is new is 
> that I can double tap in the "Alias:" text field, use the delete key to 
> remove the icon that VoiceOver can't announce, and then type in "Undo". 
> If I save these changes, when I bring up the virtual keyboard with the 
> "Keyboard Utility Bar" providing a top row of extra keys, flicking through 
> the first key now lets VoiceOver announce  the alias label I typed in, 
> "Undo".  Double tapping the "Undo" key acts just like Command-Z to undo an 
> editing change with a Bluetooth keyboard.  Similarly, the next button is 
> "Redo", which act like Command-Shift-Z to put back an editing change.
>
> You probably don't want to keep all the macros that are activated, but 
> there are some handy keys, especially now that you can label them with the 
> functions you can read in the Macros menu.  For example, there are arrow 
> keys for moving left, right, up, and down through text that VoiceOver 
> didn't announce because they were icons.  Well, you can label these 
> yourself, by deleting the present "Alias" icon, and typing in "left", 
> "right", "up", and "down" for these macros.  There are also macro keys for 
> left a word or right a word entered as "$l-word" and "$r-word". (I've 
> inserted a hyphen between the first letter and "word" to make this more 
> evident, since the macro definitions pronounce this without the hyphen). 
> Again, these keys were not announced because they use icons that VoiceOver 
> doesn't pronounce.  You can change the "Alias" labels for these keys, too, 
> from their icons, if you want to use them.
>
> I'll just add that there are two lists in the "Macros" window, with an 
> "Add Macro" button at the top that allows you to define your own Macro. 
> (This is a button, even though it's not labeled as such for VoiceOver). 
> There is a list of "Active Macros" and then a list of "Reference Macros". 
> You can go through the list of "Reference Macros" and add any that you 
> want to the "Active Macros" list by flicking the "cell add btn" button to 
> the right of each entry.  Some of the default macros are neat: there's a 
> button labeled "date" that inserts today's date when you double tap that 
> key, and a similar one for "time".  There are too many option keys to 
> easily fit at the top of the keyboard without some kind of scrolling left 
> or right, and you have to do this with a passthrough gesture (double tap 
> and hold, then swipe left without lifting your finger to get the other 
> keys), so you probably just want to choose a convenient subset.
>
> Try this out, if you feel adventurous.  As I said, it's currently a free 
> app.  I think that most users will want to simplify the "Keyboard Utility 
> Bar" if they use this.  Here's the link to the App Store entry:
>
> • Nebulous Notes (usually $2.99, free for a short time) by Nuclear 
> Elements:
> http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nebulous-notes-for-dropbox/id375006422?mt=8
>
> There's also a free, Lite version of this app, which is Universal binary 
> for both iPhone and iPad:
> • Nebulous Notes Lite:
> http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nebulous-notes-lite/id392778235?mt=8
>
> This app supports TextExpander snippets if you have TextExpander, and 
> supposedly the latest version lets you define a key with your own 
> TextExpander definition, too.
>
>
> HTH.  Cheers,
>
> Esther
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