Quiver for Mac gets a hefty update

Posted by Hugh
Feb 12, 2015 at 02:20 PM

Quiver looks good, feels good and sounds good, and many thanks to Bill for suggesting it… but I do have a problem with it, although not one of Quiver’s own making. It’s probably now the tenth or eleventh note-taking app that I’ve accumulated in the last couple of years (not all, of course, thanks to this forum!). Each has its own unique selling proposition - in terms of functionality or ubiquity, elegance, simplicity and so forth - sometimes of course the uniqueness is only skin-deep - when what I actually need is just one note-taker with a range of functionality whose hot-key I can reach for instinctively, and that will remain top of my list for - well? - at least six months. But I don’t have the time to research this niche in the depth necessary to determine which one it is that would suit my requirement! The crimper’s constant cry? A problem of abundance?

I know of Brett Terpstra’s very useful iOS Text Editor Summary (http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/), but no similar discriminator for iOS or OS X note-takers. (And I also wonder what business logic it is that persuades developers that this crowded corner of the application market, with its own 500 lb. gorilla in the form of Evernote, is one worth entering - perhaps developing an OS X or iOS note-taker is becoming a useful ‘practice platform’?)