I've found David Hewson's blog to often contain interesting and insightful views on writing and note taking. His most recent posting compares several note taking apps, and I thought this might be of interest to this group:

http://davidhewson.com/2014/07/a-note-for-all-seasons/

Steve Z.

Interesting - thanks Steve. (In my opinion David Hewson's blog is one well worth following with a lot of useful stuff, especially for readers of this forum, and I enjoy his books - though I personally have yet quite to understand the logic of the apparently-intended writer-reader combined readership of the blog.)

Hi David,

I have been adopting the use of Notebooks App (http://www.notebooksapp.com/ more and more lately. The approach is similar to NoteSuite, organizing notes in folders and sharing it in dropbox. There are versions for iOS, Mac and Windows.

Very nice article, indeed. My opinion of all the apps you comment is similar as yours

My guess is he's supposed to use his blog to promote his books, but he is a CRIMPer at heart and can't resist trying out and then writing about all the cool tools available.

Hugh wrote:

Interesting - thanks Steve. (In my opinion David Hewson's blog is one
well worth following with a lot of useful stuff, especially for readers
of this forum, and I enjoy his books - though I personally have yet
quite to understand the logic of the apparently-intended writer-reader
combined readership of the blog.)

Tried Notebooks App - tremendous disappointment. It's a memory hog, seems laggy and buggy, and crashed after just a few minutes (on Windows 7). There seems no way to export notes to plain text or HTML or RTF, at least not directly, and worst of all, it doesn't let me rearrange notes up or down. Looks nice, though! And maybe the Mac/iP* versions are better.

Last I was aware, the Windows version is still in Beta... is that still the case?

bobmclain wrote:

Tried Notebooks App - tremendous disappointment. It's a memory hog,
seems laggy and buggy, and crashed after just a few minutes (on Windows
7). There seems no way to export notes to plain text or HTML or RTF, at
least not directly, and worst of all, it doesn't let me rearrange notes
up or down. Looks nice, though! And maybe the Mac/iP* versions are
better.

As of July 1:

"We are proud to announce that Notebooks for Windows 1.0 is now available for download and purchase."

License is $21.99.

Just noticed this; very scary:

"Items you delete in Notebooks are deleted from your hard drive as well."

I have to admit that I use it mainly in my Mac and I am testing windows version right now, but I haven't found all those problems you mentioned. It takes 43 MB on my Win8 machine and I can move around my notes all along the folder structure. There is no export feature at this moment, but you are working on actual files in your HD. There is an option where you can open the folder where the file is and you will see a .txt for plain text files, a .md for markdown files and .htm for rich text files (these are actually encoded in HTML).

Hi Hugh

I post these things occasionally because people seem to find them useful. They take about fifteen minutes to write and that one's been viewed a few thousand times. I doubt it has any commercial value to me but for such a small amount of effort it seems to spread worthwhile information, rather more than a blog that simply says, 'Please buy my books'.

Is that not logic enough?

Hugh wrote:

Interesting - thanks Steve. (In my opinion David Hewson's blog is one
well worth following with a lot of useful stuff, especially for readers
of this forum, and I enjoy his books - though I personally have yet
quite to understand the logic of the apparently-intended writer-reader
combined readership of the blog.)