After getting my Revo, one of the first third-party applications I installed was J D Medhurst's QuickNote program. I've always thought that not including the Series 5mx drawing app Sketch was a missed opportunity, the Revo being a touch-screen device. QuickNote fills in at least part of this functionality.

QuickNote is a fairly small program, using up about 70kb of space with several drawings saved, and is also quite simple. Most of the screen is simply a space which accepts drawings from the stylus, or typing (text entered can be dragged around the screen before being drawn on). The toolbar, which is hideable, provides buttons for moving between pages, of which you can have a theoretically unlimited number - it's only limited by your disk space. Also on the toolbar are buttons to clear the current page, insert pages, change between drawing and erasing and swap the tool thickness. The app can also timestamp pages, and if enabled will come to the front whenever you open your Revo.

I've found QuickNote handy for everything from playing paper games like Noughts and Crosses to drawing diagrams and sketches - by nature, it's very versatile. However, its main weakness becomes obvious if you try to copy your notes to the PC, or vice-versa. Basically, it's impossible to copy from the PC to QuickNote, and particularly fiddly to copy on to the PC (involving taking screenshots and DOS file converters).

This isn't entirely negative, though, as strictly QuickNote is not meant to be an image manipulation tool - it's for taking notes on the move, and puts a vast amount of 'paper' in your pocket. Besides, it's free, and you really can't argue with that!