NoteTab for note-taking

Posted by WSP
Sep 11, 2011 at 01:07 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Bill, just wondering whether you had the opportunity to try out Notetab the way you
>were considering. I’m looking into text editors within the context of the
>Cyborganize workflow.

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I am still intrigued by the possibilities of NoteTab, but I haven’t yet tried to use it for a writing project.

I like that it is plain text; it’s extremely simple; and it feels transparent and doesn’t intrude itself between me and my notes—i.e., I just use it and don’t have to think about it at all. I also find the cross-note links work very smoothly.

On the other hand, the search capabilities are primitive (no Boolean searches, just a sequential movement through all the occurrences of a word or phrase), and the outlining feature doesn’t really allow multiple levels of indentation. (I’ve tried putting “—” or “——” before some topics in the outline, but that doesn’t work terribly well.)

I suspect that for a short writing project—an article, say—NoteTab would be fine as a note-taker; but for something longer, such as a book, it doesn’t have sufficient complexity or depth. So, for the moment, I continue to use MyInfo for my serious note-taking that is supposed to lead to a longish piece of writing; I use Evernote for miscellaneous bits of random information (mostly stuff I find on the Web); and I use NoteTab for short lists (addresses, passwords, etc.) and for writing first drafts.