Another one to CRIMP on: http://www.knowsynotes.com/Home.html

Found this cruising the Bonsai forum...

Nice; plain text, supports Markdown, works with the file system.

The principle seems very similar to Outwiker.

The simple spreadsheet support seems interesting.

Lets see, plain text notes, markdown support, found a way to make spreadsheets while remaining plain text and NOT a web app.

I haven't even installed the trial and I already want it.

It's sad that no one mentioned the multi-bar in this thread and you had to actually click on the demo. It's actually an exclusive feature of the software.

There's only like one or two notetaking services that do that and only this software and Remember the Milk comes to mind at the moment.

RTM can auto-format to-do lists and this one can create date logs, titles and csv from the bar.

For the price though, I would have at least wanted a direct Dropbox support/direct portable installation and native cross-platform software but the fact that I'm talking about price at all when I'm not usually a buyer shows how excited I was of hearing this.

Where are the people who make this threads? I bet they would be more excited:

http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1633/0/good-inexpensive-table-editor-or-bare-bones-spread-sheet

It also has a basic right click filter view which puts this thing in the category of a barebone file explorer albeit with the caveat that it only filters through a limited set of folders and only have 3 bookmark buttons. (Which for this kind of software is a good thing.)

If there's one criticism for this program, it's that it uses slow double click to rename instead of the F2 button which doesn't work really well and the focus keyboard shortcuts are too far apart. You need to click Ctrl+Alt+N/R/F/D/M. These shortcuts also don't appear to work in Virtualbox.

That looks pretty cool, actually. I've just discovered something very similar on iOS, called Nota Plex. It also supports various kinds of notes, plus simple (or even quite complex) spreadsheets, but appears to use some kind of embedded Markdown, which is then synchronised with Dropbox as XML (using a relatively neat XSL stylesheet so you can view the XML backups in a standard web browser). So the whole thing is effectively text, although you need to be a bit of an XML dude to make the most of it.

But Knowsy Notes looks rather clever. Especially if you can edit the resulting files on e.g. MarkdownPad (or Nebulous, or any other of the many Markdown editors) on an iPad.