The new versions of Notebooks (12 & 3) are here!

Posted by Dellu
Jul 26, 2022 at 01:41 PM

For anyone who has Keep it, I think Keep It is slightly better in some areas. The major downside of Notebooks for me was the lack of RTF support. The following is the comparison I did a while ago (posted in this forum).

**Keep It: **

Formats: rtf, markdown, plaintext

Reasons why KeepIt is superior to Notebooks (Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks):

1) Native rtf support: format of of Notebooks are html, markdown and plain text
2) The float window: the floating window is very useful for me.
3) metadata: KI allows assigning not just tags, but also Spotlight comments directly wihtin the app.
4) Better organization tools:
- Bundles
- Labels
- Folders—-these are reflected to finder: others are internal to the application
- Saved searches
5) universal tags: tags assigned in KI are finder tags: will be visible to Finder and DT.

**Notebooks:**
Formats: html, markdown and plain text

Areas where Notebooks appears supperior to KeepIt:

1) Contexts: tags:
#noun (or @noun) within a document tags the document with the word “noun”.
- even a new character can be assigned for this.
- But, these tags are not finder tags

2) Tasks:
- it has internal task manager: and very useful for writing because can be assigned on any of the notes; and will popup seprately
- tasks can be defined using speical characters; just like tags.

For example, if use + sign, all lines after this sign will be considered as tasks.

- - supports opening in new tabs and windows.
- supports [[linked]] style of linking
- WebDav server to sync with ipad: local network.