I’ve had my iPhone for a few months now (and had an iPod touch prior to that) and for most of that time have used the rather spiffy Notebooks app from developer Alfons Schmid to keep notes which are synced from my laptop, however although I love Alfons’ app I’ve been using the Notepad ++ program on my laptop which is just plain text. For the most part, that’s fine, however I often want to use bullet-point lists, bold and italics which obviously isn’t possible in plain text.
Prior to switching to Notepad++ in order to be able to sync up with Notebooks I’d use Microsoft OneNote, a pretty underrated program in my opinion, since not only did it allow me to use more formatting (bold, bullet lists etc) but also it was pretty good for keeping the notes organised. Each project could have its own Notebook, each notebook separated into Plot&Ideas, Characters&Settings etc, then various notes in there. It was much better for me organising them and ever since then I’ve been eager to move back to OneNote if and when an iPhone app capable of syncing properly with it came out.
I grabbed Mobile Noter earlier this year which allowed for syncing but only with one notebook and without any formatting. It was okay but the developers had roadmapped the ability to edit existing notebooks and notes, including images, linked files and more. i was pleased to hear, therefore, that they’ve just released version 2.0 of their app which has editing (albeit limited) capabilities with existing notes.
So I can now go back to using OneNote and use it well enough for now until the more feature-rich formatting capabilities come in in a future version, hopefully fairly soon.
Of course if Literature and Latte’s Scrivener is ever ported across to the PC and gets its own iPhone app then OneNote will probably be thrown out my window … 
So what about the rest of you iPhone user writers out there? Which apps do you use in your writing? Any recommendations?
