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Posted by Ken
Dec 20, 2024 at 03:44 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I don’t want to pile on Walling. I have a generally favorable feeling
>about the app. But I had cancelled my subscription, yet I recently
>noticed that I was auto-renewed anyway. I’ve sent an email asking for a
>refund, but I haven’t heard back yet.
>
>Steve
I do not want to pile on them either. I want them to succeed. But the silence has not helped them, and having the Chromebook extension lapse has not either. Combine that with a lot of things that needed some attention, and it become harder to keep investing in use of the program. 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
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
I use Milanote and find it quite useful for many of my needs, particularly keeping related project resources organized. But it is missing some functions that would make it a lot more useful.
Have you tried xTiles? It is pretty powerful and is continually improving.
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
Posted by exatty95
Dec 21, 2024 at 05:34 PM
Just a heads-up on X-Tiles: last time I checked, it still didn’t have bulk import (I think Capacities doesn’t either).
Posted by Ken
Dec 22, 2024 at 01:25 AM
I did play with Z-Tiles when it was initially released. I am going to play around again with it.
If Milanote has the option of multiple columns instead of one long column, I would find it quite useful. It is easy to fill a column with bookmarked pages, but hard to view them when it is one long column.
—Ken
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.