Fundamental shifts of position

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 21, 2015 at 10:35 AM

Hey, no worries! You’re not working with Keep Everything every day, whereas I am!

And I now keep a fairly obsessive eye on my Dropbox folder to make sure the Keep Everything database is as streamlined as possible.

As I say, I’m mildly disappointed by the lack of full GitHub/MultiMarkdown support, but I’m sure that’ll appear in a future version. At least, I hope it will! I’d love full GitHub checkbox support, I must say.

But I’m ridiculously pleased by the fact that when Keep Everything is running on an iPad, it keeps the navigation pane open down the left-hand side. So many apps are opting for the ‘easy writer’ approach, meaning as soon as you open a note the navigation bar (list of notes, folders, whatever) disappears. I find this really annoying, especially when I’m reading through lots of notes in quick succession (as I do in Notebooks, for example).

From screenshots and descriptions, I fear Ulysses for iPad may be about to make this mistake!

The apps that DON’T do this - i.e. that do allow you to view your list of notes even while you’re browsing through the note content - include Notebooks, OneNote, Outline+, Keep Everything, WriteUp and one or two others. Most of them automatically fade out the list of notes if you rotate the device into portrait mode, which seems like a sensible compromise to me.

I suppose what surprises me is how few of the other apps (the ones that don’t show the list of notes while you’re reading/editing an individual note) don’t even offer the option. On a retina iPad, the screen is more than clear enough for a list of notes to be included. OneNote and Outline+ sensibly offer a slew of options here, including a full-screen, no-distraction option.