I'm looking for opinions for anyone using AquaMinds NoteTaker. I looked at it years ago when it was a direct competitor to Circus Ponies Notebook, and went with Circus Ponies. I'm considering it for my purposes now, which is for personal research for hobbies and interests. I'd like something that has decent web clipping capabilties. As much as I've tried to get onboard the Markdown train, it doesn't work for me.

I've considered OneNote as well, but it appears that for Mac there is no viable offline, backup option. What I see in OneDrive is a link. While I don't think Microsoft is going anywhere, I need the security of a local backup. If I am mistaken, and OneNote can be backed up and restored via Mac, let me know.

Happy Holidays!

NoteTaker works well for me as a CPN replacement. I use the clipper only occasionally, but it has worked well when I've tried it. The index feature is great.

LateForDinner wrote:

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I've considered OneNote as well, but it appears that for Mac there is no
viable offline, backup option. What I see in OneDrive is a link. While I
don't think Microsoft is going anywhere, I need the security of a local
backup. If I am mistaken, and OneNote can be backed up and restored via
Mac, let me know.

If you want local backup, can you set up an external hard drive and turn on Time Machine? That's what I do. Works great.

Have you restored a OneNote notebook? I am not challenging you, but I have looked in to this multiple times. I see some people saying it is possible, but I have not found anyone that claims to have successfully done it. According to the quote below, it is not possible.

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Replied on June 12, 2019

About the Time Machine feature, as the notebook isn’t stored on Mac, Time Machine only backup the OneNote cache, it is in fact a copy of all opened notebooks but in a special binary and fragmented format for sync purposes only. It's not usable as a backup because you can't restore any information from it.
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Over the Christmas holiday I may find the time to make a notebook and try it.

Thanks for the input.

I have NoteTaker, but to be honest never use it. I’m much more likely to use either Evernote (excellent web clipper), UpNote (also very good web clipper) or Bear (good web clipper) to save web pages. I often end up storing them in Notebooks, my main repository for useful info.

NoteTaker only exists for macOS, unfortunately, whereas Evernote and UpNote are both available for a very broad range of platforms (including Windows and Android, which is what my current smartphone is running). Bear and Notebooks run well on macOS, iOS and iPadOS, but not on any other OSes.

Bear and UpNote are both extremely good at converting web pages to markdown, which saves a lot of disk space. I also sometimes save web pages as PDFs directly to my Inbox folder in Notebooks. Evernote is very flexible, but obviously costs more than any of the other apps mentioned.

LateForDinner wrote:

I'm looking for opinions for anyone using AquaMinds NoteTaker. I looked
at it years ago when it was a direct competitor to Circus Ponies
Notebook, and went with Circus Ponies. I'm considering it for my
purposes now, which is for personal research for hobbies and interests.
I'd like something that has decent web clipping capabilties. As much as
I've tried to get onboard the Markdown train, it doesn't work for me.

I've considered OneNote as well, but it appears that for Mac there is no
viable offline, backup option. What I see in OneDrive is a link. While I
don't think Microsoft is going anywhere, I need the security of a local
backup. If I am mistaken, and OneNote can be backed up and restored via
Mac, let me know.

Happy Holidays!

Bear is a little too cute for me. I know that shouldn't matter, but it does to me. I was not familiar with UpNote.

Looking at the Mac app I see this kind of In-App Purchase, which is all too common in the both Apple App Stores:

Premium Subscription $0.99
Life-time Upgrade $19.99
Life-time Upgrade $14.99
Life-time Upgrade $29.99
Life-time Upgrade $9.99
Life-time Upgrade $24.99

Is that based on your life expectancy and age at time of purpose? (not serious)

Time of purchase.

Wondered if it referred to reincarnation...

Heh, love it.

I like UpDate very much, and would recommend a lifetime purchase – it’s a very flexible app under constant development, and the developer is very responsive to suggestions (I made a few while it was still brand-new and they were incorporated pretty much immediately).

mprazoff wrote:

Wondered if it referred to reincarnation...

Sorry, meant to say UpNote. Good grief, mind wandering…

MadaboutDana wrote:

Sorry, meant to say UpNote. Good grief, mind wandering…

That would be a good name for a brainstorming app, too.

I mean "mind wandering", not so much "good grief"...although thinking about the usual outcome, that, too, might be worth considering.

Hm, yes, that’s got potential: MindPilgrim!

Prion wrote:

MadaboutDana wrote:
Sorry, meant to say UpNote. Good grief, mind wandering…


That would be a good name for a brainstorming app, too.

I mean "mind wandering", not so much "good grief"...although thinking
about the usual outcome, that, too, might be worth considering.

WanderBrain

TheMindisWilling-TFIW

LateralFlow

BirdBrain

… hm, time to have another cup of coffee!!!