Outline +

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 19, 2013 at 03:41 PM

I’ve had good experiences with Outline+, which is a very nicely designed app. Having said that, there are other nicely designed apps out there, not all of which have desktop clients. I think Franz already mentioned Notebooks (by Alfons Schmid), which has a good (if basic) desktop client for both Mac and PC, and has the enormous advantage of generating HTML as the basic code underlying each notebook page (notebooks themselves are treated as folders in e.g. Dropbox or your WebDAV server of choice). But it doesn’t allow you to draw anywhere on the page.

One app that does is Notability, a very powerful app that’s generally speaking a pleasure to use. It backs up to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and any WebDAV server of your choice in a variety of formats (incl. PDF and RTF). But it doesn’t sync as such.

Microsoft’s own OneNote clients for Android and iOS are pretty good, but don’t do the ‘enter stuff anywhere on page’ thing - in fact they don’t do formatted at all, really. Other ‘anywhere on page’ apps include corkboard apps like Corkulous (I’d go for the Pro version, which is very powerful and allows you to embed corkboards inside corkboards, and also has a good search function) or Infinote (one of my faves, if a bit simplistic). I also love Concept, which is like a peculiar kind of combo of whiteboard with corkboard with index card manager with… well, mindmapper, I suppose. It’s just rather nicely done, and very entertaining to use. Otherwise, check out Markdown apps, especially my most recent discovery, Notato.