Promising new notes app

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 21, 2018 at 07:05 PM

Just playing with a very promising, simple but elegant notes app (for macOS/iOS, I’m afraid - sorry!) called UpNote.

It’s got a number of unusual features. These include:

- bookmarks that appear in a separate list
- the ability to pin notes to the top of the list (not particularly unusual, granted)
- the ability to remove notebooks from the sidebar without deleting them
- a “stay-on-top” function (why more apps don’t have this beats me; it’s exceptionally useful for note-taking)
- a very clean editor with simple formatting, but also checkboxes if you want them
- the ability to “pop out” notes in separate windows (especially useful in combination with the “stay-on-top” function)

Plus the developer is amiable and responsive!

It’s still early days for the app; it could do with a more complete search function (it’s very nicely designed, and works especially well on short notes, but isn’t ideal for longer ones). It could also do with some way of rearranging notebooks in particular, but also more ways to sort the notes themselves. I’ve made a few suggestions; we’ll see how they evolve!

It doesn’t do tagging as such, but you can assign a note to multiple notebooks, so essentially, notebooks = tags.

Cheers!
Bill