Revisiting subscriptions

Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 26, 2018 at 06:36 PM

That’s an interesting question. Notebooks and Keep It both keep your files, in their original formats, in external folders freely accessible in the file system. Notebooks doesn’t create any special “Notebooks”-formatted files. On the other hand, Keep It can create .kpnote “files” (macOS packages, really) that are not portable to other apps. But both apps can read/write ordinary text files.

Functionally, I think Keep It relies a little more on external editors than Notebooks, but both apps let you open a document in, say, a PDF annotation app and save the changes back to the library seamlessly.

For me, it’s more a matter of taste. There are functional differences—for example, Notebooks can be used to assign tasks to documents and track them—but overall I don’t think there is a huge reason to prefer one over the other, subscription costs aside. We’ll have to see what Notebooks 2.0 offers vs. Keep It, then the time comes.

satis wrote:
>Can anyone speak to the current differences between KeepIt and
>Notebooks? (I have the latter but haven’t been using it, but a lot of
>people, like everyone at MacStories, seems to be using KeepIt [sometimes
>alongside DevonThink]).