iPad Mini and outlining

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 7, 2012 at 09:25 PM

Looking for a “notebook” style app to do what I was hoping Notebooks would do, I tried ProjectBook and a couple of other notebooks. These seem like good applications, but they weren’t clicking for me, so I broke down and paid the (relatively) hefty price for Circus Ponies Notebook for iPad. Turns out, this is working pretty well for me. Where I find the notebook metaphor less appealing on the computer, it works well for me on the iPad Mini. I like being able to have separate notebooks for different arenas (which ProjectBook doesn’t have). Also, I find the outlining in CPN the easiest to manage on the iPad Mini. The divider pages are helpful on the iPad, and the Multidex should prove to be quite useful as my notebooks get larger.

This is a preliminary report. I’m not urging anyone to rush out and buy this app—at $30 you can’t really afford to do it on spec, like you can with a $5 app. I’ll report back as I use it more. (Still as yet to try: syncing with the MacBook version.)

Steve Z.