iPad software (upcoming): LiquidText

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 6, 2011 at 11:04 AM

Ken wrote:
>Bill is probably much more qualified to
>answer this question, but I thought I saw something in the manual that talks about
>combining notes in a book. I know that things can be broken into separate notes, but I
>cannot remember if you can go in the other direction. I had very high hopes for
>Notebooks, but its learning curve is a bit steeper than I had expected, and my time has
>been extremely limited these past few months. So far, I have been spending what little
>free time I have with CarbonFin, Toodledo and Pocket Informant. I am hoping to come
>back to Notebooks when my schedule permits.

I’m very impressed with Notebooks for iPad and it would be almost perfect, were it not for this “little” problem of exporting. I’m still waiting for a response from the developer, so there might be a solution to this. It is excellent for capturing notes and slotting them into categories. I have spent hours developing a 4 level hierarchy (essentially an outline of my PhD thesis), only to realise that Notebooks can only export each level of hierarchy as a separate folder containing the notes as text files. On top of that the folders contain all kinds of system files as well, so it’s a real pain to extract the individual text files from the exported folders, and the hierarchy is lost as well. Yes, notes can be combined into a single text file, but only those at a particular hierarchy level, not across levels.

What I thought it would do (and what seemed logical to me) was that the export would combine all the books (the hierarchy levels) and the notes (the text files) into a single text document, where the hierarchy levels would be converted into headings, like the way Whizfolders does it. Maybe there is still a way to do this. But if not, it would mean that a writer could only work within one hierarchy level deep. That is still better than the native Notes app in iPad where there are no folders or tags at all, but rather limiting.

I’m still hoping there is a way around this.