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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 3, 2023 at 12:41 PM

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

Posted by Amontillado
Sep 3, 2023 at 01:22 PM

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.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 3, 2023 at 01:39 PM

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
>>
>

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 3, 2023 at 01:45 PM

Thanks, Stephen

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

Daly

Posted by Andy Brice
Sep 3, 2023 at 04:22 PM

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

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