RightNote vs. NoteCase Pro

Posted by WSP
Nov 2, 2012 at 03:34 PM

MyInfo is my main note-taker, but I bought a license for RightNote recently because it looks promising. So far I’ve used it mainly for its virtual notes feature. I have a lot of miscellaneous files in various formats (mostly pdf, txt, and rtf) scattered around my hard disk, and it’s nice to link them to a RightNote file and then be able to search them easily. The RightNote searches are extremely fast and show words/phrases in context. It’s also possible to edit the txt and rtf files from within RightNote. Bear in mind that these files are not swallowed up by RightNote; any editing you do will alter the original files in their original directories. RightNote simply provides a means of viewing, organizing, and editing scattered, miscellaneous files from within one centralized piece of software.

Evernote lets you do something approximately like this, but it actually absorbs the various files into the EN file, which will eventually become spectacularly large if you try to do it very often, whereas the RightNote file remains modest in size, because it’s not bringing in these external files, merely indexing them and making them accessible through a virtual link.

As for more general note-taking, MyInfo seems to me to offer greater advantages.

Bill