Software Recommendation (Onenote vs. Others)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 11, 2012 at 09:41 PM

I do agree with what you say about tagging - and also about cross-platform. There’s a huge opportunity here for somebody to produce a really powerful cross-platform app that combines the strengths of a OneNote/Silvernote, wiki and Curio (I love Curio - it’s just a shame I haven’t got a Mac!).

An app I use a lot (because it’s very flexible and also supports and indexes third-party files) is Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks - originally for iOS but now also available in beta for Mac and Windows (you’ll probably have to ask Alfons if you can join the Windows beta program, which doesn’t currently appear on his website). I’ve actually returned to Notebooks for most of my iPad-based text management needs, simply because it’s so flexible. It synchronises through Dropbox, each “book” is effectively a separate folder, and each “note” is effectively a separate file (HTML-based, as it happens, or else raw text) - hence the plural “Notebooks”. It’s actually very simple at heart, but also very powerful. And Alfons is very nice!

It doesn’t sound as if you’d necessarily find Notebooks any more advantageous than Outline+ (which I also use, and have a great respect for), but you might like to take a look. It’s an app that steadily grows on you (I’m also now using it for task/to-do management, after trying literally hundreds of alternatives!)

Cheers,
Bill