Do you consider yourself a minimalist? If so, you probably hate all the clutter that comes from many writing apps. For this reason, quite a few journalists have switched away from Microsoft Word and prefer writing in simple text files. Not only do text (.txt) files give an undistracting writing environment, they also can be opened from virtually any app. That’s why I love Nebulous Notes so much. It lets you work in .txt files and sync them to Dropbox. That means I can start jotting down notes in a .txt file on my computer, then continue editing it on my iPhone or iPad later. Nebulous Notes is the best app I’ve found for editing .txt files on your iOS device.

Nebulous Notes is just one of our favorite notes apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

Here are a couple of our other picks of the best notes apps for iPhone and iPad:

Vesper for iPhone and iPad – Simplicity and style converge in this great note taking app

Vesper is a sleek app from three prominent players in the iOS community - Brent Simmons, Dave Wiskus, and John Gruber. Being critics in the Apple universe, these guys know good design. So they put there heads together and created a notes app, up to their standards, that they would ...

Drafts – Much more than a common notepad

Drafts is a sweet app for writers and anyone else who wants to quickly create notes and then get on with life. Launching the app quickly brings up a blank screen ready for your text input. Jot a note and exit. Drafts will automatically save your text without you having ...