Note taking is a simple enough task and a mandatory one to keep oneself organized. All that you need to do is get a paper pad, a pen and jot down whatever is important to you. That’s great, but what do you do if you don’t have that pad at home when you need it the most?

Welcome to SyncNotes your perfect solution to solving the note-making nightmare! It is by far the only service that allows one to take their important snippets of information wherever they go…be it your own computer, the internet, smartphone or a simple mobile phone.

Unlike other web2.0ish new age applications which are browser based; SyncNotes has taken the traditional approach with a downloadable desktop application. This of course is not a drawback, but interesting as to why the developers chose to do that. It makes perfect sense to a guy who wants to quickly type out a note on his laptop computer and save it instead of having to go to a web browser, while ensuring that he has internet connectivity, login, click on a new note and then type in what he wants (before he forgets). By going the desktop application way you instantly eliminate the bottlenecks of instant note taking on only browser based AJAX applications.

Once a note is entered in SyncNotes it gets periodically synced (depending on your setting) with NoteBox—a nifty online archival system. These notes sit in your own registered account which can then be accessed from any device with internet connectivity.

For mobile phones that have a small screen, the NoteBox intelligently formats the note to fit the width and height of the screen and also adds pages if the note is too long for the particular device in question. Depending on the capability of your mobile phone, the notes appear in either black and white or color that you may’ve specified. Though editing a note on the mobile itself is clunky and could do with improvements.

For those not concerned with internet syncing, SyncNotes can easily double as a desktop sticky note. The notes themselves are visually appealing with a variety of colors and extremely simple to use. You can easily with a few simple clicks edit a note’s title and body, set it as ‘always on top’ mode, resize-move the note around, make the note translucent, lock a note or hide it completely from view.

Shortcuts are available for almost everything you need from creating a note, saving it to inserting a time and date in the format that you want.

You can send a note to another SyncNotes user as easily as you send email typing in his email address; the cool thing is if the receiver does not have SyncNotes installed or running on his/her system then the note goes out as an email. The formatting of the email sent out has much to be desired, but rest assured the receiver receives the note. Astonishingly spam has been taken care of incase someone tries to use SyncNotes as a marketing ploy; a block list can be defined from the website.

The SyncNotes forum on the website is accessible only to the registered SyncNotes users. Any queries with regards to the application are answered by the SyncNotes team itself or the community. You can also find tips and tricks for better usage of the application.

Inspite of it being a great app there are a few areas where SyncNotes can better itself, such as there is absolutely no rich text support which could also solve email formatting issues, sending a note does not remember email addresses which can get tiresome to retype a long obscure email address, sorting through all your notes on the desktop client is a pain, very easy to delete notes by mistake and lose them forever in case those notes get synced on the NoteBox (server).

With all said and done, SyncNotes is one great app that you wouldn’t want to miss. It does its job perfectly and is definitely a recommend. If you want a seamless note taking app, it doesn’t get better than this.