Mac: Notebook vs Notetaker

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 9, 2010 at 02:41 PM

Hugh,

What distinguishes VoodooPad as a personal wiki is the editor window is a full-fledged word processor. There’s no need to enter “edit” mode. This is a very alluring feature. The thing I find most limiting about VP—and one of the main reasons it is not a go to application for me—is that it has a weak ability to provide an overview of your wiki. It does have a flat index of the various pages, but that is mostly useless when you get to hundreds of pages. This, of course, is a problem all personal wikis have to deal with. But ConnectedText on the PC has far more powerful tools for getting an overview—the navigator and the topics list.

My other problem with VP—perhaps a silly one—is it feels very depressing. The colors are drab and the tool bar icons very uninspired. Not a good reason NOT to use the application, but not really all that inviting either.

Steve