I am a pilot and have for many years used a printed form for recording data during my flights. I would like to do-away with paper and am looking for recommendations for an iPad app where I can create my boilerplate form and enter the data with the Apple Pencil during the flight. It would be great if this application would keep these forms chronologically for future reference in a workbook format.
You could create the form in Pages and save as a PDF then use that to create a template in Good Notes. For organizing, you could create a notebook and add a new template page for each copy of the form, or you could create a folder and make each form it’s own notebook. Or some combination, depending on your preference. Good Notes support for the Pencil is excellent.
I second the vote on GoodNotes. This app is without a doubt ideal for this use case. I have crated all manner of forms and built notebooks around them. What is great is when you create a new page, it will automatically make it the same form. Now, if you have a multi-page form, you have to handle it differently. But it is still easy, convenient, and really elegant to use.
Interesting point about multi-page forms. I guess the options are to add each template page (page 1, page 2, etc) or make a notebook with the multiple forms in it and copy that notebook so it is in effect a “template” notebook. How do you handle it? @iPersuade
GoodNotes is good, but if your records management requirements are a bit stricter, then I’d suggest looking into using Tap Forms, so you can create your own database of forms and make reports from them, and use Tap Forms with the Mazec keyboard app. There are other handwriting-to-text keyboards but I find Mazec the most accurate.
There is actually a pretty simple way to handle this. When you save pages in Good Notes, you can organize them into categories/folders. If I have a multi-page form, i just add each page from the folder I have them saved in. Now, I’m not sure what I’d do if I had a 10-page form that had to repeat. If that, I’d probably create a template notebook and just copy the pages or copy the notebook. In practice, the forms I’ve been using in GoodNotes are no more than three pages.
Forgive the slow reply, I was away from MPU Talk for a while.