Revisiting subscriptions

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 27, 2018 at 01:49 PM

I wonder if there are plans for a new Windows version of Notebooks.

Also, if the Notebooks folder is stored in Dropbox, will the files be available on more than one PC? I have recently discovered to my chagrin that keeping files in Dropbox doesn’t mean an automatic sync with some programs - for example, it does for MyInfo, but not EssentialPIM.

Thanks.

Paul Korm wrote:
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]).