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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 19, 2013 at 03:41 PM
I’ve had good experiences with Outline+, which is a very nicely designed app. Having said that, there are other nicely designed apps out there, not all of which have desktop clients. I think Franz already mentioned Notebooks (by Alfons Schmid), which has a good (if basic) desktop client for both Mac and PC, and has the enormous advantage of generating HTML as the basic code underlying each notebook page (notebooks themselves are treated as folders in e.g. Dropbox or your WebDAV server of choice). But it doesn’t allow you to draw anywhere on the page.
One app that does is Notability, a very powerful app that’s generally speaking a pleasure to use. It backs up to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and any WebDAV server of your choice in a variety of formats (incl. PDF and RTF). But it doesn’t sync as such.
Microsoft’s own OneNote clients for Android and iOS are pretty good, but don’t do the ‘enter stuff anywhere on page’ thing - in fact they don’t do formatted at all, really. Other ‘anywhere on page’ apps include corkboard apps like Corkulous (I’d go for the Pro version, which is very powerful and allows you to embed corkboards inside corkboards, and also has a good search function) or Infinote (one of my faves, if a bit simplistic). I also love Concept, which is like a peculiar kind of combo of whiteboard with corkboard with index card manager with… well, mindmapper, I suppose. It’s just rather nicely done, and very entertaining to use. Otherwise, check out Markdown apps, especially my most recent discovery, Notato.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 20, 2013 at 09:01 PM
Has White Note been mentioned yet? If not, it may be worth looking at. It’s another app that you can click anywhere on your notebook page and type notes. It is like a lightweight cross between OneNote and Circus Ponies Notebook, with an effective notebook metaphor. You create notebooks, sections and pages. So far my biggest complaint about it would be that its tool icons are kind of muddy, and hard to discern on my iPad Mini.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whitenote/id363747216?mt=8
Steve Z.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 20, 2013 at 09:43 PM
One problem I just discovered with White Note: Paste a long piece of text onto a page and there’s no way to scroll down to read what has flowed past the bottom of the page. Clearly, not developed for long text, just short notes.
Steve Z.
Posted by steveylang
Mar 18, 2013 at 05:43 PM
I bought MagicalPad and while it looks really neat, I haven’t been able to put it to good use (yet). I think part of the reason is that the UI is necessarily deep since there is a lot of manipulation required to move things around, create different types of objects, etc.
I don’t regret the purchase because it was on sale at the time for 99c, which was too good to pass up for something that looks really cool. Part of the issue is that I haven’t had time to really get into it yet, I will get back to it at some point and really give it a go.
Posted by Lucas
Mar 20, 2013 at 02:27 PM
Outline+ has just released their new Onenote reader for Mac:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outline/id604802021 (link for the US Store)
They say it will become an editor… we shall see.