Exciting teaser for Notebooks

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Posted by MadaboutDana
May 8, 2015 at 09:08 PM

Okay, I’m excited.

If all goes well, the next version of Notebooks (yes, that’s as in Alfons’s Notebooks) will include support for side-by-side notes - in iOS!

That’s so cool! And will turn Notebooks into a potentially very powerful authoring app on the iPad. After all, one of Notebooks’s strengths is its support for many different kinds of document. So you could have a PDF on the left and a rich-text note on the right. Very few apps on iPad can do that! And none with the kind of stability and power of Notebooks.

I can’t wait! Go go Alfons!

Posted by Paul Korm
May 9, 2015 at 01:26 PM

Notebooks (Schmidt) is one of the few apps that I would have no problem paying a full-price version upgrade for.

@MadaboutDana wrote
>So you could have a PDF on the left and a rich-text note on the right.
>Very few apps on iPad can do that!

I wonder what the list of apps with that capability is.

Over here I have these apps that have side-by-side windows:

LiquidText (beta)
MarginNote Pro
SlingNote
Side by Side+
Get Info
Tapoose (I deleted this from iPad—too annoying)

Apps with PDF and notes in the same window, like OneNote, don’t really fit into Bill’s category I think.

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 9, 2015 at 07:11 PM

Hm, couple of those I don’t know, interesting…

Tapose was a huge disappointment, but I still occasionally play with it. Also worth mentioning is Circus Ponies Notebook, which can do side-by-side (and was one of the very first to do so, long before iOS 8).

I suppose, to be fair, one ought to include OneNote and therefore, by extension, Outline+, but as you say, they’re not really two-pane.

I would LOVE to see Gingko on iOS, but I doubt it’s going to happen! Similarly, I would LOVE to see Tree 2 on iOS, but ditto.

Scrivener apparently will have, once it’s available (mid/late summer???)

>Over here I have these apps that have side-by-side windows:
> >LiquidText (beta)
>MarginNote Pro
>SlingNote
>Side by Side+
>Get Info
>Tapoose (I deleted this from iPad—too annoying)
> >Apps with PDF and notes in the same window, like OneNote, don’t really
>fit into Bill’s category I think.
>

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 9, 2015 at 07:23 PM

Oh, forgot to mention Knowtes, as well (browser + notepad; quite good).

There are a number of dual/multi-pane browsers, but they’re rather boring.

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 9, 2015 at 07:28 PM

... and a rather peculiar file management app that also happens to be a text editor and basic photo editor, iStorage 2.

Beautiful interface, remarkably clever file handling.

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