NoteTab for note-taking

Posted by WSP
Jan 13, 2012 at 06:06 PM

Just a small postscript to this thread.

In doing some further experiments with UltraEdit as a possible note-taker, I noticed that it works very nicely with Notebooks for iPad/iPhone. Notebooks is, except for Evernote, the most sophisticated note app available in the iOS world: each note is a separate file, and it can handle plain text, RTF, HTML, and PDF. Like a number of other iOS apps, it now offers synchronization through Dropbox. It also provides a number of other functions, such as list-making, that I haven’t tried out so far. It’s visually attractive and works very smoothly.

The developer, Alfons Schmid, has now announced that he will release PC and Mac versions of the program later this year:

http://www.alfonsschmid.com/Notebooks/Blog/Entries/2011/12/21_Outlook_2012.html

I’m keeping an eye on this. I like the idea of an app that creates small individual files (Evernote’s monstrous single file makes me nervous) in standard formats that can be viewed and edited in numerous programs.