These are all Mac products

https://growlybird.com/notes/

http://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/

https://danschimpf.com/ (MacJournal)

https://www.notebooksapp.com/mac/

https://outline.app/mac (Best Companion for Microsoft OneNote, will also import Circus Ponies Notebooks)

Daly de Gagne wrote:

Stephen, was there an app similar to the Circus Ponies notebook for
Windows and/or Mac? It seems to me that there was, but I can't remember
its name. Thanks.
- Daly

Andy Brice wrote:

>
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a
>>developer I've witnessed.
>
>I don't know anything about that particular case. What happened?
>
>You should treat your customers fairly, because it is the right thing
to
>do. But even if you are a sociopath, you should treat your customers
>fairly, but it is business suicide not to. It is weird that a vendor
>would totally wreck their reputation. People will remember.
>--
>Andy Brice
>http://www.hyperplan.com

It was NoteTaker, from Aquaminds. As Paul Korm says, it's still available on the Mac App Store.

As I remember the history, the devs of NoteTaker and CPN worked together on the original NeXT app and went their separate ways in the transition to OSX, each bulting their own offspring. NoteTaker was moribund for many years - development resumed after CPN died.

I also remember it being suggested that the idea and much of the design of OneNote was "borrowed" from these two apps. Hard to believ that sucj a thing coukd happen, I know :-)

Daly de Gagne wrote:

Stephen, was there an app similar to the Circus Ponies notebook for
Windows and/or Mac? It seems to me that there was, but I can't remember
its name. Thanks.
- Daly

I wrote a blog post about Circus Ponies Notebook shuttering its doors:

https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/circus-ponies-closes-shop/



Andy Brice wrote:

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a
>developer I've witnessed.

I don't know anything about that particular case. What happened?

You should treat your customers fairly, because it is the right thing to
do. But even if you are a sociopath, you should treat your customers
fairly, but it is business suicide not to. It is weird that a vendor
would totally wreck their reputation. People will remember.
--
Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com

Keep It Together was the forerunner of Together, which has now morphed into Keep It, I believe.

rafael costacurta wrote:

Circus Ponies NotebooK isn’t the one that turned into the
“Together” app"?

Notetaker is very similar to Circus Ponies. In fact, it is my understanding that Notetaker came first and one of its developers left and forked into Circus Ponies. Notetaker is still available as a Mac app, but it doesn't seem to get a lot of attention. It works fine, though.

Daly de Gagne wrote:

Stephen, was there an app similar to the Circus Ponies notebook for
Windows and/or Mac? It seems to me that there was, but I can't remember
its name. Thanks.
- Daly

Andy Brice wrote:

>
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a
>>developer I've witnessed.
>
>I don't know anything about that particular case. What happened?
>
>You should treat your customers fairly, because it is the right thing
to
>do. But even if you are a sociopath, you should treat your customers
>fairly, but it is business suicide not to. It is weird that a vendor
>would totally wreck their reputation. People will remember.
>--
>Andy Brice
>http://www.hyperplan.com

I see NickG covered this. Sorry for the redundancy.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Notetaker is very similar to Circus Ponies. In fact, it is my
understanding that Notetaker came first and one of its developers left
and forked into Circus Ponies. Notetaker is still available as a Mac
app, but it doesn't seem to get a lot of attention. It works fine,
though.

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Stephen, was there an app similar to the Circus Ponies notebook for
>Windows and/or Mac? It seems to me that there was, but I can't remember
>its name. Thanks.
> - Daly
>
>Andy Brice wrote:
>
>>
>>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>>The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a
>>>developer I've witnessed.
>>
>>I don't know anything about that particular case. What happened?
>>
>>You should treat your customers fairly, because it is the right thing
>to
>>do. But even if you are a sociopath, you should treat your customers
>>fairly, but it is business suicide not to. It is weird that a vendor
>>would totally wreck their reputation. People will remember.
>>--
>>Andy Brice
>>http://www.hyperplan.com

NoteTaker looks nice, but I see the comment that it serves in "capturing, organizing, and retrieving any kind of information in an intuitive electronic notebook."

Since it says "an" electronic notebook, I take it that all notes go into one common file.

GrowlyNotes' web site says "all the open notebooks can be shown in tabs in one window," by which I assume I could have as many notebooks for as many projects as I like.

I wish knowledge and note apps made it clear whether or not separate files are supported versus one bucket for everything, and whether or not cloud resources are optional.

Thanks Nick. I remember using it when briefly working with a Mac back in the day.

NickG wrote:

It was NoteTaker, from Aquaminds. As Paul Korm says, it's still
available on the Mac App Store.

As I remember the history, the devs of NoteTaker and CPN worked together
on the original NeXT app and went their separate ways in the transition
to OSX, each bulting their own offspring. NoteTaker was moribund for
many years - development resumed after CPN died.

I also remember it being suggested that the idea and much of the design
of OneNote was "borrowed" from these two apps. Hard to believ that sucj
a thing coukd happen, I know :-)

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Stephen, was there an app similar to the Circus Ponies notebook for
>Windows and/or Mac? It seems to me that there was, but I can't remember
>its name. Thanks.
> - Daly
>

Thanks, Stephen

I used Notetaker when I briefly tried out a Mac many years ago.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Notetaker is very similar to Circus Ponies. In fact, it is my
understanding that Notetaker came first and one of its developers left
and forked into Circus Ponies. Notetaker is still available as a Mac
app, but it doesn't seem to get a lot of attention. It works fine,
though.

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Stephen, was there an app similar to the Circus Ponies notebook for
>Windows and/or Mac? It seems to me that there was, but I can't remember
>its name. Thanks.
> - Daly
>
>Andy Brice wrote:
>
>>
>>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>>The end of Circus Ponies Notebook was the most graceless exit by a
>>>developer I've witnessed.
>>
>>I don't know anything about that particular case. What happened?
>>
>>You should treat your customers fairly, because it is the right thing
>to
>>do. But even if you are a sociopath, you should treat your customers
>>fairly, but it is business suicide not to. It is weird that a vendor
>>would totally wreck their reputation. People will remember.
>>--
>>Andy Brice
>>http://www.hyperplan.com

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

I wrote a blog post about Circus Ponies Notebook shuttering its doors:

https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/circus-ponies-closes-shop/

Wow. 'Graceless' is a very polite way of describing his exit.

--
Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com

You can have multiple notebooks with Notetaker. You can open different instances of Notetaker, so that you can have multiple notebooks open at the same time, but you can't switch with a tab between them.



Amontillado wrote:

NoteTaker looks nice, but I see the comment that it serves in
"capturing, organizing, and retrieving any kind of information in an
intuitive electronic notebook."

Since it says "an" electronic notebook, I take it that all notes go into
one common file.

GrowlyNotes' web site says "all the open notebooks can be shown in tabs
in one window," by which I assume I could have as many notebooks for as
many projects as I like.

I wish knowledge and note apps made it clear whether or not separate
files are supported versus one bucket for everything, and whether or not
cloud resources are optional.