Derived from a type of flowering plant as well as the Latin word for "graphite," Plumbago may have taken its inspiration from other apps that are currently on the market. These include Paper by FiftyThree, which is particularly used among iOS devices, and OneNote, which is a popular note-taking app featured in Microsoft's Office suite.
While the OneNote app is regarded as the primary note taking app on Microsoft's Surface tablets, the new Plumbago app seemed to gear more toward a creative representation of writing.
Plumbago allows users to doodle and add art to their written work. They can choose from a number of elegant color palettes, realistic inks and variously designed papers. These include yellow ruled paper that has margin lines in pink, lined paper, grid paper, sketching paper, music sheets and a whole lot more.
One interesting feature of the app is its built-in "handwriting beautification" technology, which incorporates stroke-matching of thousands of doodles made by the user. This allows the user's handwriting to become easier to read later.
Users can also adjust the app's smoothing level when trying to achieve a beautiful handwriting.
The app also features unlimited notebooks, making it easy for users to organize ideas, notes and writing.
As the Plumbago app is still in an experimental phase, it is expected to have some bumps along the way.
One of the issues found in the app is its lack of ability to recognize whether the user has placed the paper in portrait mode, something that is usually done when taking notes on a tablet. Although the app showed the page in full, it failed to recognize the ink which stopped writing from the middle toward the bottom of the page.
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