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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 15, 2011 at 09:00 PM
Looking for a similar program for Linux, I found Juffed http://juffed.com/en/index.html which also works in Windows. The main feature I require is ‘save session’ so that I can keep my text files in groups.
WSP wrote:
>Alexander, I will try to take a look at Textpad again. I hadn’t thought about it for
>several years. Thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 15, 2011 at 09:01 PM
Clarification: The main feature I require (and found in Textpad and Juffedit) is ‘save session’ so that I can keep my text files in groups.
Posted by WSP
Jan 13, 2012 at 06:06 PM
Just a small postscript to this thread.
In doing some further experiments with UltraEdit as a possible note-taker, I noticed that it works very nicely with Notebooks for iPad/iPhone. Notebooks is, except for Evernote, the most sophisticated note app available in the iOS world: each note is a separate file, and it can handle plain text, RTF, HTML, and PDF. Like a number of other iOS apps, it now offers synchronization through Dropbox. It also provides a number of other functions, such as list-making, that I haven’t tried out so far. It’s visually attractive and works very smoothly.
The developer, Alfons Schmid, has now announced that he will release PC and Mac versions of the program later this year:
http://www.alfonsschmid.com/Notebooks/Blog/Entries/2011/12/21_Outlook_2012.html
I’m keeping an eye on this. I like the idea of an app that creates small individual files (Evernote’s monstrous single file makes me nervous) in standard formats that can be viewed and edited in numerous programs.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 14, 2012 at 06:08 PM
WSP,
Thanks for the heads up about the PC/Mac version of Notebooks. I have just started using it on an iPod Touch and it is a fine application, which should be terrific as a desktop program.
Steve Z.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 14, 2012 at 09:37 PM
While I do like Notebooks for iPad/iPod as a note-taker, I think it has some serious limitations as an outliner. While it allows you to create hierarchies of notes by using “books” as folders and “notes” as items in folders, there doesn’t seem to be a way to export and extract such a set of books and notes as a single document. If that were possible, it would be a superb mobile writing tool. (I did suggest this to the developer but this issue seems to be on a back burner somewhere).
One would think that this problem could be overcome by exporting to Dropbox and then by combining the exported text files somehow with another programme. However, if you need to sync between iPod and iPad as I do, it also exports a bunch system files, which muddy the waters. Plus whenever I opened an exported text file, it didn’t have any paragraph breaks or even spaces after the end of lines, turning it into a mass of undifferentiated text that would just take a long time to organise.
Has anyone figured any better way to deal with the exported text files in Dropbox? In the meantime I’m just sticking to emailing individual notes to myself, which is a shame, as exporting an entire directory would be just such a neat way to work on large projects in iPad.