BoostNote > Multi-Platfrom, Multi-Pane Text/Code editor (Free Open Source)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 7, 2018 at 07:07 PM

Not quite sure what you mean here, doablesoftware: Joplin does have a folder view, plus a tags view. Okay, so the folder view is only a single level, but it’s still useful. And the tags view makes the app even more flexible. The desktop version keeps both views open all the time; no, they don’t stay open all the time in the mobile apps, but that’s just practical; it’s easy enough to open the left-hand navigation bar from the menu button at the top.

Sounds to me like you ought to take a good look at TextNut or MWeb (both on Mac/iOS); they’d certainly meet your needs. Others have suggested Write!, which is very powerful, and which I can thoroughly recommend from personal use - I have a lifetime subscription, in fact. You are, if I may say so, quick to dismiss apps that don’t meet your not entirely well-defined criteria. Another app that would broadly meet your criteria is Keep It, which, in response to a question you posed on another thread, is where I manage things like web pages (saved out as PDF files); I recently replaced Curiota with Keep It because the latter has a full multilayer folder tree, also supports “smart” folders (called bundles), and also has tags. Plus the search function is fast and effective (I’m not sure why you make such a distinction between “titles only” and “content only”; in my experience such differentiation is rarely useful, but if you want it, Keep It does it; it also allows you to search on comments, tags and source [i.e. web pages you saved out using Keep It]).

In fact, after reflecting on the various requirements you’ve mentioned in various threads, I’d suggest Keep It is probably one of the apps you ought to prioritise.

Cheers,
Bill

doablesoftware wrote:
i think ‘Joplin’ is for a different uses, like it doesnt have a tree
>view
> >heard good things about ‘boost’ and it seems to be focused on code
>snippets
> >Joplin doesnt seem usable to me without a tree view, still testing it