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Thursday’s App Smart article is an ode to apps for poets and genre lovers.

Purists haw disregard at the idea, especially those who conceive that genre profession peaked with the advent of the Moleskine notebook and the pencil.

For them, there’s an cushy answer: more apps.
And an iPad.

Apps for fans of the handwritten word are apace improving, especially on iPads, where users hit plentitude of actual realty to scribble.

Two cases in point: Penultimate ($3) and Mental Note ($3, with a liberated “lite” edition for iPhone).
Both are rattling good, gift you a genuine notepad undergo that haw support you attain a decent fortuity from the pencil-and-paper era. You crapper modify the broadness and colouration of your composition and cancel meet as easily as you could with a pencil.

Mental Note offers more features, same the knowledge to add a picture from a library, along with frequence so you crapper dictate notes quickly. (A friend, Debra Santos, dispatched a state with a picture of her Pug, “Olive,” gnawing on a goody pearl patch aloud snoring.)

Penultimate was meliorate for clean writing. I could rest my assistance on the iPad’s render without the information intellection that I was composition with my wrist. I mitt a some marks with my wrist, but they were easily erased, and null same the disorderliness I mitt on Mental Note. Plus, my composition looked more changeful on Penultimate.

To attain prizewinning ingest of these apps, ingest a beatific tool same digit from Griffin Technologies. It’s $20, but different another products on the market, it feels same a enclosure and its metal instance holds alacritous to your iPad notebook. And it won’t behave easily, same the some impressible tool devices on the market.

Toss in a Moleskine-type iPad case, same the Bookbook from Twelvesouth ($70) or The Case ($55), and no digit module conceive you’ve traded your genre feeling for chronicle as a high-tech appmeister.

The bonus: you never separate discover of paper.