Quiver for Mac gets a hefty update

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 12, 2015 at 12:17 PM

I’ve gone ahead and purchased this very reasonably priced license for Quiver. So far I’m impressed with its elegance. It is inviting to use. The way a note has cells, which can contain different styles of “text” is unique in my experience.

(For those who haven’t investigated the app, you can create “cells” of material in each note, choosing from one of four types of text: regular RTF-style formatted text, code text, markdown text or LaTex text. And you can mix and match these however you please in a note.)

My question is, if you’re not a programmer, how can these cell options be put to use for note keeping? I don’t have any need for code cells or LaTex cells, so I’ll be using the formatted text cells and markdown cells. Is there an advantage to mixing these types of cells in a single note, or would I be better off just sticking with one or the other type? Markdown text gets highlighted in the editor, but does not convert to formatted text unless you open the separate preview window or export it. So if you are using Quiver simply as a note-taker, -keeper, then you have to be happy looking at the raw markdown. Is there a note-taking advantage to being able to create text in markdown AND add RTF-style formatted text mixed in? I think there well could be.

Another nice feature is that you can open notes in separate windows, and have multiple notes open this way.

When there is an iOS companion app, this could really be a winning note-taking option for me.

Thanks very much for the notice about it!

Steve Z.