Revisiting subscriptions

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 27, 2018 at 01:52 PM

Oops, I just checked the Notebooks site again, and I see that a Notebooks folder in Dropbox is available on another computer on which Notebooks is installed. So I may take another look at Notebooks.

Thanks again.

Daly

Daly de Gagne wrote:
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]).