Taking notes

Taking notes

Use Notes to jot down ideas, questions, and everything else. Type in text, record audio, attach photos and documents, and even link your notes to a meeting event.
Tip: Create and sign in to your Evernote account from HTC Sensation if you want to back up your notes to Evernote's secure online server. For details, visit www.evernote.com/about/learn_more.
From the Home screen, tap > Notes .

Creating a notebook

  1. On the Notes main screen, tap to open a selection menu, and then tap New notebook.
  2. Type in a notebook title.
  3. TapLocal Notebook to save the notebook on HTC Sensation or tap Synchronized notebook to sync your notes with your Evernote® account.
  4. Tap Create.
To open or switch to another notebook, simply tap again, and then tap a notebook name.

Manually syncing notes

Note: You need to log in to your Evernote account from HTC Sensation to start syncing notes.
  1. On the Notes main screen, tap and then tap All Notes.
  2. Press , and then tap Sync.

Composing a note

  1. With a notebook opened, tap .
  2. Type in a note title.
  3. Compose your note:
    • Tap on the note, and then start typing in your text.
    • Tap to start and stop audio recording.
    • Tap and choose a file type.
    • Tap to create a drawing and insert it in your note.
    • Tap to take a photo and insert it in your note.
  4. Press , and then tap Save.
You can link a note to an event in Calendar. Press , and then tap Calendar.

Creating a drawing

You can create a drawing, scribble, or illustration and include it in your note.
  1. With a note opened, tap .
  2. Choose a color to use.
  3. Draw on the blank area using your fingertip.
  4. If you need to erase a part of the drawing, tap and then move your finger left and right on the area that you want to erase. You can also tap Undo to erase the last stroke you made.
  5. Tap Save to insert the drawing in a note.

Reviewing a note

Playing an audio recording in Notes

After recording a meeting, you can listen to the audio clip to review key points. If you took notes while audio recording, 'timemarks' (small colored nodes in the audio bar) are added to pin your notes within the audio recording's time frame.
  1. Open a note where you have recorded a voice clip.
  2. Tap to play the audio recording.
  3. Tap or to go to the next or previous timemark. When you're moving from one timemark to another, you'll see a note thumbnail for a quick preview of what you noted down while recording.
Tip: You can also tap a particular item on your note to jump to its timemark and hear the audio you've recorded at that time.

Sharing a note

  1. With a notebook opened, tap the note that you want to share.
  2. Press , and then tap Share note.
  3. Choose how you want to share your note.
  • For most sharing options, notes are automatically converted and sent as images.
  • You can print notes when HTC Sensation is connected to a printer over Wi-Fi.