Aquaminds NoteTaker 4 is in beta

Posted by satis
Jul 5, 2018 at 02:16 PM

I always thought that Notebook was more Mac-like in its operation, but I didn’t like the idea of putting *everything* into any one single app, so I never used either app. Also, they both seemed a bit clunky to me, with neither outlining that matches the ease of Acta/DynoNotepad/Opal (same app, different name in 3 decades), which I used starting in the late 80s, nor the speed and power of BBEdit. And I was distrustful with inserting and attaching images to files - and wary of what that would mean for the stability of the apps if I started taxing the files with them. (I feel much less wary about that today with my iPad!)

Now, especially with mobile use/access/sync being such a (surprisingly) large part of my work, my longtime (and somewhat creaky) outline/textfile workflow has been exploded.

FYI I was curious about what happened in recent days with Notebook’s Jayson Adams (answer: we still don’t know) and Notetaker’s Scott Love, but I found this interesting 15-year-old Joi Ito blog post and subsequent comment-thread, with Jayson Adams as one of the commenters. Turns out my remembrance was right about those DNA of the apps coming from NeXTSTEP; someone noted that Adams wrote “the original NoteBook app for the NEXTSTEP platform…. He and Scott Love cofounded Millennium Software Labs in the 80s and when the company dissolved, they went their own paths.Love founded Aquaminds in 2003 and Adams founded Circus Ponies.”

https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2003/03/07/scott-love-the.html