ProjectBook arrives - and turns into NoteSuite

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 2, 2013 at 09:08 AM

After lots of playing about with NoteSuite (for iOS: I remind readers I don’t have a Mac), and importing lots of documents/pages, I have concluded:

- it’s really very good. Very stable, indexing appears to work very well.
- it doesn’t import web pages as well as Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks for iOS (it doesn’t preserve formatting as well), but it handles imported web pages better (faster and more fluid). I save web pages that really interest me to Notebooks by cutting and pasting the article bits, however, and in this respect Notebooks is the equal of - and in fact slightly superior to - NoteSuite.
- the search function is good - again, on a par with Notebooks’s (very good) search function (highlighting of search terms, fast search within notes as an extra function etc.).
- image/graphics handling is actually very impressive - fast and fluid, with great word-wrap options (but see below).
- the range of Cloud sync options is awesome! As is the range of Cloud import options.
- the ‘Related Notes’ function really works!

I did manage to unearth a bug, by dumping graphics and drawings on a page that also had an extensive outline to-do list, and then opening and closing the outline (which caused all the images to vanish!). But this would be, I suspect, an unusual scenario - I was deliberately stress-testing a single note to see just how much I could cram into it!

There are also hints in the blog and product descriptions that the developer is thinking of bringing NoteSuite to more platforms. Very encouraging!

I am on the point of tentatively concluding that you could actually use NoteSuite as a replacement file system - the combination of indexing, tagging, folders and auto-linking (the ‘Related Notes’ function, plus the customisable folders function) is moving in precisely that direction. For an app that started on iOS, that’s impressive!

I’d love to know what Mac users of the app think?

Cheers,
Bill