iPad Mini and outlining

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 8, 2012 at 05:39 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>I’m sorry to hear Notebooks didn’t work for you, but it’s very much horses for courses.
>I too went through a love-hate period with Notebooks, because it is a very
>sophisticated app with some idiosyncratic features. But once you explore it a bit you
>discover its true value - and for me, part of that is the immensely flexible
>interaction with the desktop. There are now PC and Mac clients, which automatically
>set themselves up with your Notebooks folder in Dropbox (if you’ve set one up). The
>things I like about Notebooks are:
> >a) the rich-text editor (simple but
>effective)
>b) the HTML pages it produces (not unlike KeepNote!)
>c) the fact you can
>copy and paste entire web pages (or bits of web pages) into the desktop version and have
>them rapidly synchronised and indexed on your iPad
>d) the fact you can also insert web
>pages really easily on your iPad!
>e) the very nice search function (you all know what a
>sucker I am for search); also the fact that it highlights search terms (unlike many
>other iOS apps)
>f) the fact that you can, if you wish, use it as a task manager (setting
>due dates, with a calendar overview if you want it, etc.)
>g) the support for tags
>(called ‘Contexts’ in Notebooks)
> >I confess I don’t really use the support for file
>attachments (although I gather it does, and also indexes the contents, which is
>impressive!).

I do have a copy of Notebooks but haven’t used it for a couple of years now. But it sounds like it’s emerging as an alternative to Surfulater then (or what Surfulater wants to be), especially with the dekstop companion (which I haven’t tried)?