NotePlan 3 public beta (and subscription)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 27, 2022 at 05:33 PM

It’s been a while since I last wrote about NotePlan, but after a brief falling-out, I’ve returned to the fold and am re-examining my relationship with this extraordinarily powerful piece of software.

It’s amazing what you discover when you start looking at an app afresh. In this case, the fact that NotePlan can mimic a kanban app. So apart from opening notes in new windows (something NotePlan has been able to do for quite a while), you can also “split” the main window into multiple columns (up to 4, excluding the sidebar and the calendar sidebar).

And there are other things I hadn’t really taken on board – wikilinks, backlinks, folding under headers, and most recently transclusion (or “synced lines”, as Eduard has called them, although I prefer the other term he uses, “synced blocks”). It’s still a beta feature, but solid enough to be usable, and it means you can embed a block in multiple notes so that it’s automatically updated in all of them, regardless of which note you edit the block in.

I nearly succumbed to the temptation to resubscribe to Ulysses, but after comparing NotePlan’s most recent changes, I went with the latter instead…