Notezilla equivalent for Mac?

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Posted by steveylang
Nov 12, 2021 at 06:30 PM

I am looking for a sticky notes type Mac app for visual thinking/brainstorming with the following features:

-Allows you to group and re-open ‘sets’ of notes (positions are maintained)
-Notes sit on the desktop rather than a main app window (hence sticky notes model)
-Simple export
-iOS app would be nice, not required

Notezilla seems to fit exactly what I am looking for but is Windows only. The main feature it has that other apps lack is the Memoboard (allows you to ‘group’ sets of notes.) It would allow me to open and close different projects.

I find that being able to lay stuff out in a 2-D space is very conducive to my thinking. My favorite ‘tool’ for this is often just pencil and sheet of paper, or Scapple on the computer. I don’t need mapping tools though, and I would like to arrange notes just on the desktop for easy access- hence a sticky notes type app.

I don’t need full PIM type features, my main purpose here is to lay ideas out, keep track of thoughts, and then later transfer to a PIM.

Thanks!
Steve

Posted by steveylang
Nov 12, 2021 at 08:01 PM

On second thought, I don’t think visual clutter is worth whatever benefit having floating desktop notes gives me. I have been playing around with the MacOS Stickies app and it is better to have everything in its own app window.

I have been trialing Walling, and unexpectedly like laying out and arranging thoughts and ideas (bricks) in a multi-column format. I guess the usage model is that I often have different but related trains of thought relating to a project, so having multiple bricks arranged and viewable in front of me helps. But not just single discrete thoughts like a mind map, running trains of thought that could be a few words to a few paragraphs.

I know there are other card-type apps but Walling is clicking with me so far. I looked at Supernotecard, but find it way too confining. Craft.do is beautiful, but doesn’t quite work for me either.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 13, 2021 at 03:45 PM

There’s an app called TaskCard that hasn’t been updated in four years, but which still seems to work okay. It sounds like it might be exactly what you’re looking for.

Here’s a video about how it works:

https://youtu.be/UmBgMVVinUM

Steve

Posted by satis
Nov 13, 2021 at 04:10 PM

I bought both TaskCard and Notecard from that developer back in 2017. The apps had promise but are very buggy, and apparently now abandoned. I deleted them from my Mac.

Posted by steveylang
Nov 14, 2021 at 02:43 AM

Thank you both for the feedback! I will check out the trial in any case. I downloaded the last Stickybrain version which comes close as well, I’m not sure if I can even buy it any more.

I am actually leaning towards paying for Walling, but haven’t filled up my 100 brick free account yet so still CRIMPing that one…

The other app I tried out was Milanote, which is great for what it is but too fiddly for me as I’m not needing to make everything super pretty. I did really like that you could have boards inside boards though.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
There’s an app called TaskCard that hasn’t been updated in four years,
>but which still seems to work okay. It sounds like it might be exactly
>what you’re looking for.
> >Here’s a video about how it works:
> >https://youtu.be/UmBgMVVinUM
> >Steve

satis wrote:
I bought both TaskCard and Notecard from that developer back in 2017.
>The apps had promise but are very buggy, and apparently now abandoned. I
>deleted them from my Mac.

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