What's Up With Walling?

Posted by Darren McDonald
Dec 24, 2024 at 04:23 AM

Ken wrote:
> I have been using Milanote for a bit to see if I could migrate to it,
>and I am a bit mixed on it. It offers a lot of great features, but it
>is twice the price, and has a few quirks of its own.
> >—Ken

Thank you Ken and Steven for mentioning Milanote.

I used Milanote a couple of years ago under a paid subscription, and there was something in the way the app worked that helped me bring my academic research forward in a big way. I used it mainly to work on research interview guides, map out theoretical concepts/models, and brainstorm outlines of research papers. I stopped using it when I received a complaint from a Japanese co-researcher that they could not copy the Japanese in the PDF output of Milanote. We worked on an interview guide in real-time, but they did not want to copy within Milanote, only on the PDF output. I wrote to support numerous times to have them work on this issue, but no progress had been made for over two years. I then gave up on the app. I have been searching ever since for an alternative.

Thanks to you mentioning Milanote, I fired up the app and downloaded the latest version, and to my surprise, the issue of not being able to copy the Japanese in PDF outputs was no longer. I renewed my subscription right away.

However, I would be interested if you and anyone who has been a user of Milanote and xTiles, Walling, or any other similar app could provide a comparative review. At first glance, the greatest missing feature to me is linking boxes of text or images with lines and arrows.