Notebooks as a Ulysses replacement

Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 18, 2017 at 09:05 PM

I’ve also had Notebooks since it’s first appearance on iOS and then on the Mac. For some reason it hasn’t grabbed me as a primary tool. I I like it for the reasons Steve and Franz give, but I don’t think I’m going to spend a lot of time with it. Just can’t put my finger on why it’s second tier on my machines.

A couple of points. Notebooks supports “Formatted Notes” which are a kind of hybrid HTML document. That’s useful because DEVONthink also supports these notes. The world is not going to give up markdown in favor of Formatted Notes—but it’s good to know two solid pieces of software find it useful to be compatible with one-another when it comes to this feature.

If you index your Notebooks folders in DEVONthink (a good and common use case), I suggest you take a look at Greg’s technique for hiding the .plist files that Notebooks places in indexed folders so the .plists don’t clutter your databases. See http://forum.devontechnologies.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16193&p=88923&hilit=Notebooks#p88923