Right Note

Posted by JohnK
Feb 22, 2012 at 11:28 PM

I can’t say I have extensively tested RightNote, but I have tested it enough to buy a licence using the BDJ offer.

Since my last test, crucially, RightNote has added web page capture (which seems to work very well, even on complex pages). The combination of the simplicity of the program (which is inspired by Keynote) with web page capture, tempted me.

There’s a thread over at DonationCoder where the writer of Keynote (going under the name ‘Tranglos’) opens the conversation by saying that RightNote is Keynote ‘done better’, quite a compliment:

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29504.0

And I added in that conversation that the addition of web page capture puts RightNote in competition with all the other apps fighting for the “information dump” market (Ultra Recall/TreeProjects/MyBase/EverNote/Surfulater/etc).

CRIMP means I have licences for all of those bar MyBase. But I always seek simplicity, which brings the shortlist down to RightNote and TreeProjects. And RightNote, in my testing, has more reliable full-page web capture, as well as a decent “clipper” (partial page captures).

Another plus for RightNote is that is offers a range of editor options: plain text, RTF, and my favourite, Rich View (http://www.trichview.com/), a very powerful editor, much better than RTF. RightNote has all the other critical features I require (global search across all notebooks, and excellent configuration options).

For future information dumping, I plan to use RightNote, and if all goes well, I will gradually move information to it from other programs.

Re export: obviously only you can satisfy yourself on that issue. The Rich View editor does support export to Word, but RightNote has not implemented that yet. On the BDJ offer page, the author says he would like to do so soon. So if you buy, email the author and encourage him to stick to his plan…