Roughbook: Quick Notes Taking & Productivity

ABOUT ROUGHBOOK
Roughbook is an online note-taking or notes-recording chrome extension. It is a productivity tool as helps to quickly capture important information with a support for DARK-MODE. There are many advantages of notes taking or recording audio notes. Roughbook is an online tool that makes it even easier for you to capture your thoughts and ideas. You can edit any note and see the note's history in just 1 click.


ROUGHBOOK FEATURES
Following are a few useful features in Roughbook;
1. It is a chrome extension, thus you can add notes quickly 📝
2. Add reminders to give notifications ⏰
3. Save the current tab URL or all Tabs URLs, with just 2 clicks 🤘
4. Tag all your notes with hashtags 🔖
5. Search your notes by hashtags 🔎
6. Send notes by Whatsapp or email 📤
7. Send your Roughbook notes to your team by Slack 🟪
8. Request new feature in Roughbook 🎁
9. Strike down the unused notes and hide/see them when required 🛠

10. Insert hyperlinks in your notes 📝
11. Record audio notes
12. Edit old notes and see the complete history in one click.
13. Delete notes and restore old deleted notes.

RECENTLY ADDED FEATURE
1. Delete note and restore deleted note.
2. Edit notes and see note history

UPCOMING FEATURES
1. Transcript audio notes
2. Notes collapsed in date-wise accordions

ROUGHBOOK ADVANTAGES
Roughbook is a productivity tool so that you can take notes quickly and get a clearer picture of your thoughts. Now capture all your learnings and even send them to your friends by email or WhatsApp. You won't miss even a single idea as we are making the notes taking simpler. Get your Roughbook pinned at the chrome browser and add all your thoughts, important links in just a few clicks.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)
Question 1. What are the best note-taking apps?
Answer. There are many different online note-taking apps and which app is best for you, totally depends on your notes taking methods. If you prefer taking very organized notes with lots of comments, reviews, then Google Docs, OneNote and EverNote are good apps for you. On the other hand, if you want access to an online tool that just lets you write your thoughts and allow it to organize using hashtags.


Question 2. What are the productive tools?
Answer. Productive tools are online tools that help you to be more organized and thus helps you in time management and focus more on the work which matters. Productive tools have a very wide range of purposes like managing time, prioritize work, organizing thoughts, planning projects and many others.


Question 3. What is the importance of making notes?
Answer. There are many advantages of making m. Starting from writing your very basic ideas to clear the thoughts for better discussion. Few benefits of notes taking are;
*No idea/thought is missed
*Get to a clearer picture
*Better discussions with team-members
*Track down the past work
*Personal knowledge base


Question 4. What are different notes taking methods or notes taking ideas?
Answer. Every person follows a different practice of note-taking. It also depends on which stage of life you are. For example - for school notes taking is just to capture important keywords and later fair them in the subject notebook. On the other hand, notes taking in offices are more to take action items against each note. It may be a note to include features in products or different meetings. People normally follow to have a dedicated pages for each day, so that they can go back to those notes and refer them. Notes taking method for meetings is to have notes tagged with keywords, like agenda, summary, conclusion and action item.


Question 5. How to tag notes in Roughbook?
Answer. Roughbook allows you to tag each not by adding a hashtag (#) . You can either added hashtags while writing notes or later by selecting notes and clicking on the top blue icon.


Question 6. How to strike out notes in Roughbook?
Answer. Roughbook provides a feature to strike out unused notes by selecting the notes and then clicking the action button at the top. You can then select to show or hide struck notes through the setting icon.


Question 7. How to send notes?
Answer. Roughbook provides a feature to send selected notes by WhatsApp or Email.


Question 8. How to organize my notes?
Answer. Roughbook provides the feature to add notes quickly without the stress of organizing them. Thus the only way to organize notes is by adding hashtags. You can search for notes by these hashtags.


Question 9. How to request a new feature in Roughbook?
Answer. Users can request any new feature in Roughbook through the settings icon. You can click on the settings icon and click on "Ask New Feature". Roughbook team will check the feature request and let you know the status. If that feature will be added, you will always be among the initial users.


Question 10. How to become successful from effective notes taking?
Answer. Notes taking is one of the good habits of successful people in the world. Successful people always have a notebook ready to add the daily updates and the action items which they need to work on. One good advantage of quick notes taking is, not even one idea will get missed. You will always have a place to add your thoughts and can go back to them whenever possible. Effective notes taking involves adding all the details properly with the summary and action items.


Question 11. How do notes taking help you in getting a clearer thought?
Answer. The best way to understand anything is to start writing about it or making rough diagrams. When you write about something and start adding the details, you will realize all the gaps which you were not aware of. It also helps in prioritizing the tasks.


Question 12. How can notes taking help in our professional lives?
Answer. When we are working in teams, it is best to have clear communication in discussions. We can have a nice discussion if things are explained with diagrams. Thus whiteboards are part of every office. In the Work from home (WFH) scenario, online whiteboards are filling this gap. We have that moment in our professional lives when we think about the past discussion and wonder why we took a particular conclusion. It is always helpful if we have notes from that time and can refer them to understand the thought process.


Question 13. When can I make notes?
Answer. Notes taking is always helpful. You can take notes for school lectures, teamwork, sessions, reading blogs, attending seminars and even in all your meetings. There are many best productivity tools available online to simplify your work. Roughbook is among these productive tools or Notes taking tools. It helps you to take online notes quickly and organize them as per your need using tags.


Last but not the least, rough notes are always our companion in learning new things and implementing our knowledge in professional life. Even if they are not very fancy but always help us to clear our thoughts and communicate them to our team-mates.