Alfons Schmid's Notebooks

Started by Stephen Zeoli on 5/5/2026
Stephen Zeoli 5/5/2026 3:32 pm
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
satis 5/5/2026 3:39 pm
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.