The thread about iA Writer and Ulysses go me thinking of other markdown editors and brought up Notebooks. This is an app I used for a little while and liked, but since I work in Windows and Mac, and the Windows version really seemed to stall out, I moved on. But I've always been fond of the app. So I am wondering if anyone on this forum uses Notebooks regularly. And, if so, what do you think of it?

For those unfamiliar with it, here is the link to the home page:
https://www.notebooksapp.com/

The app has been around a long time. I believe it started on OS and then moved to Mac. Files are stored locally, and are in a native form: plain text, markdown or RTF, I think. It is a one-time purchase. So it has a lot going for it. But I'd like to know what users think. Thank you.

Steve

I used the app through Notebooks 2, and although the dev gavr free updates to version 3 I'd already moved on. I did find it a very nice and *very* fast app for both Mac and iOS, and its cloud-sync agnosticism and context tags are powerful advantages. I think around the time I stopped using version 2 Apple Notes had initiated a considerable revamp whose handling of images and PDFs among other things seduced me back to it.

I used Notebooks regularly until a few years ago, and migrated to Obsidian. This thread raised my curiosity. I found that my 3.6 version appears to be incompatible with Tahoe. I downloaded the 4.0 version, inserted my old v3 license key, and it accepted it without asking for more money. Nice.

Agreed: Alfons is lovely, but how he makes a living out of Notebooks I don't know, because he rarely charges for upgrades. I did use it quite a lot, but since going multi-platform have used it less and less (like Paul, Obsidian has taken over, although I've now cancelled my Obsidian Sync contract and use syncing platforms instead, in particular Nextcloud; for Android, I use AutoSync because the Nextcloud mobile client is truly awful!). Obsidian remains one of the most impressively flexible solutions around.