Aquaminds Notetaker

Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 28, 2019 at 10:41 AM

Aaaaand… I’ve succumbed to temptation. Not least because NoteTaker is the closest thing on macOS to RightNote, one of my very favourite Windows notetakers.

Well, I’m not sorry. There are still bugs (notably: the versioning function crashes the app and paralyses Finder, and also causes embedded web pages to behave oddly), but the concept is impressively ambitious. And contrary to earlier criticism, NoteTaker supports an astonishingly comprehensive list of macOS Services. No, it doesn’t have a “Share” button, but it does have a “Share” item in the context menu that pops up if you right-click on an entry or page (it also has a “Share” menu item, which allows you to copy page or entry URLs). And it generates entire websites from notebooks.

It has a good search function, supplemented by a unique indexing function (I’m not aware of any other information manager that has this feature). What’s more, the index doesn’t just support text, it also supports tags, files, dates and priorities (you can assign priorities to pages and entries).

In fact, the number of functions tucked away in NoteTaker is almost ridiculous, bearing comparison with MacJournal, but with much better outlining (folding in pages - yippee!!). And you can customise it extensively if you so wish. You can change fonts, show multiple columns, choose background images, etc. etc…. no, I’m not going to list all the options.

I’m genuinely impressed. Now to see how well it handles large quantities of information!

Cheers,
Bill