Tasks can be assigned due dates using either a calendar widget or by using fuzzy dates, such as +1 day, +1 week, and so forth. You also have the option of setting tasks to repeat, setting reminders, and posting them in the Calendar app.

Another way to create notes and to-do items is by emailing them to Projectbook. Unlike Evernote, which gives every user a special evernote.com email address for this purpose, Projectbook requires that you create your own IMAP account, such as a free Gmail account, for dedicated use by the app. While an easy task for early adopter types, less technically inclined users may find this requirement too challenging and then end up never using this function. Once this has been configured, incorporating items via email requires that you check your email from the apps Action button. I would find it useful if I could configure the app to check my email account automatically.

Emails prefaced with TD: in the subject line are supposed to appear in your project as to-do items but I had trouble getting this to work. PDF or Microsoft Word document attachments are incorporated in readable form while JPG images are brought in as notes with the image embedded within. Text in PDFs and Word docs are fully searchable within the app, but text within images is not. Evernotes ability to perform OCR (optical character recognition) on graphic images and then make that text searchable is a feature that Id love to see added to Projectbook.

You can also import items into Projectbook via , , and and you also have the ability to send items out of Projectbook, such as emailing your current task list, for example.

If youre taking meeting notes, and youd like an audio record of the meeting, Projectbook, like Evernote, can handle that too. However, Projectbook does Evernote one better by also syncing up your notes with the recording, placing little speaker icons throughout the text. Tapping on an icon will playback the audio from that point in your notes.