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Posted by jaslar
Jan 7, 2019 at 11:28 PM
I’m a big fan of Notecase, and have been trying to figure out how to use something like it on my Chromebook. Step one: download to Mac and set up as desktop server. It worked ok (I had the right shareware program to unzip), but I can’t get Func/Ctrl/Option/Command plus arrow keys to rearrange anything. And there are no right click or menu suggestions. Am I missing something? (Step 2, download server version, I guess. But I do want to make sure it works for me first.)
Posted by satis
Jan 8, 2019 at 06:09 PM
jaslar wrote:
> I’m a big fan of Notecase, and have been trying to figure out how to use
>something like it on my Chromebook.
Do you have a Chromebook that can run Android apps? NoteCase Pro for Android v1.1.8 has just been released.
http://www.notecasepro.com/get.php?android/Notecase_Pro_1.1.8.apk
Posted by jaslar
Jan 9, 2019 at 02:19 AM
I thought I bought that, but no. Mostly, I’ve found alternatives that work well with a Chromebook. But I haven’t found a cloud based two pane alternative to Notecase. If I can set up Trilium as a server on an unused PC, this might work. I just thought I’d see if I liked the feel of it first. It doesn’t quite work like Notecase, but I haven’t spent much time with it yet.
satis wrote:
>
>jaslar wrote:
>> I’m a big fan of Notecase, and have been trying to figure out how to
>use
>>something like it on my Chromebook.
>
>Do you have a Chromebook that can run Android apps? NoteCase Pro for
>Android v1.1.8 has just been released.
>
>http://www.notecasepro.com/get.php?android/Notecase_Pro_1.1.8.apk
Posted by washere
Jan 9, 2019 at 02:44 AM
Zadam’s Trilium will be a superb server-based desktop app one day. He’s been putting a lot of work into it and a lot more to come.
On Chromebooks (specially) and Android phones/tablets Halna Outliner Pro (cheap, also has free ad based version) is probably the best android app. But Notecase Pro Android (also cheap plus free limited version) is catching up, which also can attach images etc. even if not as nippy yet.
Both work well on Chromebooks, Halna better on phones but Notecase Pro has the advantage of it’s Desktop siblings and server too. You really need both.
Posted by Carrot
Aug 4, 2020 at 04:14 AM
I’ve searched for good open source note taking solutions for years and so I was shocked when my friend introduced me to Trilium. I’d never heard of it.
I’ve been using it on and off for several months and am deeply impressed. I have large collections of research materials in MyInfo 6 (now migrated to MyInfo 7), an application widely seen as one of the very best of this genre.
I’ve always hoped to find an open source solution that could replace my reliance on proprietary note software.
For a few years I tried Keepnote for a few years, and had plenty of correspondence with the developer. Sadly, it was discontinued. Then I moved to CherryTree, but its development was slow and did not offer the interface I needed. I then found Joplin and though I liked its web-clilpping tool I found its UI be its biggest downfall—- it appears to be inspired by OneNote and/or Evernote and those interfaces do not fit my needs. For my way of working, the UI is awkward to use, takes up far too much screen space, and overall is poorly designed. Though I sent my recommendations to the Joplin forum, indeed they were busy with many other aspects of development.
But when I found Trilum, I was very impressed, especially by the clean classic user interface. It follows the design used by so many of the best note-taking applications: UltraRecall, Right Notes, MyBase, MyInfo.
Trilium needs an import tool so users can import collections from Joplin, Evernote, easier mass import of ODT or DOCX documents. Please continue to develop its WYSIWYG interface. I find interfaces that use Markup to be very slow- its like taking a step backwards to 1997 when I used WordPerfect’s reveal codes to see how everything was formatted. I don’t want to do that anymore.
I hope you can find a team to develop Trlium to be what Joplin does not quite yet achieve.