notetaker that uses the filesystem and has powerful search?

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 21, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Agree about AM-Notebook - potentially very good, but search is slo-o-o-ow.

Another great solution is KeepNote (freebie). Stores notes as separate HTML files, so you can have quite sophisticated notes. The basic search function is actually pretty quick, but you can accelerate it still further by installing SQLite (details on website: rasmuss.org). It’s also a cross-platform app, but has a remarkably small footprint.

Many text editors also allow you to work directly with records in the file system. The obvious example is NoteTab (I use it alongside WriteUp on my iOS devices to synchronise notes rapidly between PC and iPad/iPhone via good ole’ Dropbox), but there are plenty of others, too (check out alternativeto.net for lots more ideas; use e.g. UltraEdit as a starting point).