Indent Notes

Indent is a notebook for Apple Pencil and the keyboard. It opens straight onto a page you can write on. There is no account, no sign-in and nothing to set up.

Handwriting and typed text sit on the same endless page and move together. Five tools — pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser and text — and that is the entire toolbar.

THREE KINDS OF PAGE, CHOSEN WHEN YOU MAKE ONE

Writing — one endless sheet, or cut to A4, Letter, a square or a slide when it has to land on paper.

Drawing — a clean canvas. Pinch to zoom, twist to turn the page, a quick pinch to bring it home. Hold a stroke at the end and it becomes the line, triangle, rectangle or ellipse it was reaching for. On iPad, a symmetry guide down the middle, across, or in quarters.

A sheet — column letters, row numbers, over eighty functions, sort, filter, fill down and fill right, a frozen header row and first column, and a chart from any column. Formulas leave as formulas in .xlsx, not as dead numbers. On devices with Apple Intelligence, a formula that does not work explains itself and offers a repair — worked out on the device, and nothing is written into your note until you accept it.

A TO-DO LIST YOU CAN ACTUALLY TICK

Tap a box with a finger, or cross the item out with the pen. Both mean done. Write a date on the line and the item counts down to it. One screen lists everything still to do, across every note and every folder.

SEARCH THAT READS YOUR HANDWRITING

Every page is read on the device and nothing is sent anywhere. Search finds handwriting, typed words, and the words inside a photograph or a scan — a whiteboard, a slide, a page from a book. From the Home Screen too, through Spotlight.

YOUR NOTES ARE FILES

A note is a plain folder you can open in Files: the strokes, the text, and a short description of the page. Sync is iCloud, in your own account. Copy the folder anywhere and it is still yours in ten years.

APPLE PENCIL

Squeeze to bring the tray under the tip. Hover to see the nib at true size. Barrel roll turns the chisel and the calligraphy angle. A haptic tick when a stroke is rubbed out, and a double-tap to erase and come back to the pen you left. Hold the text tool and write, and Scribble turns it into type. Scratch a word out to rub it out.

IN AND OUT

Read PDFs, pictures, .csv, .docx, .xlsx, .rtf and .txt. Write on a PDF's own pages. Scan a document with the camera. Export PDF, PNG, plain text, RTF, CSV, .docx, .xlsx, and a deck of .pptx slides from the notes you choose. Print. Drop a picture or a paragraph in from another app, and drag a note out as a PDF.

WAYS IN

Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets, Control Center, the Action Button, Shortcuts and Handoff. Every one of them opens a new blank page.

EVERY PAGE

Dark mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and 44-point targets throughout. Twenty-five languages. An optional Face ID lock. Folders, if and when you make one — and search still spans all of them.

WHAT INDENT DOES NOT DO

No account. No server of ours, so nobody here ever sees a word you write. Nothing runs at launch except the page.