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Posted by soypunk
Jun 4, 2019 at 06:41 PM
Hypertexts for iOS first impression notes:
- It uses iCloud (but not iCloud Drive) for data storage and sync
- It is strictly plain-text, no formatting
- Links will break if you rename the linked page
- There’s no special syntax for links, it just match a string of text to it is database of page names
- Search is fast but I only create a 50 or so notes for testing, no idea how well it works with larger data sets
- I could not find a data export feature (and because it is not using iCloud Drive you can’t just do it yourself necessarily)
I’m fine with the simplicity of the app (one sync solution, no formatting, no attachments) but I’d like to see page renaming and a data exports supported. I could not find a means to contact the developer but I did leave a review suggesting as much.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jun 5, 2019 at 12:41 AM
Notenik is interesting, but you get what pay for. It’s free. And it’s very buggy. After a few attempts to do what the help file says it does, the app stopped letting me edit notes.
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 5, 2019 at 05:56 AM
Perhaps the title “(Yet another) interesting new MacOS/iOS only app!” might be more appt
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Another shiny!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 5, 2019 at 08:48 AM
Sorry, Alexander - yes, you’re quite right, I ought to have made this clearer…
As for Notenik: I’ve successfully created new collections and saved existing ones out as new collections. The only instability I’ve noticed so far is a tendency to crash if you change the fields in your note template for a collection. But I’ve only just started to play with it.
The author can be contacted via his own website at https://herbbowie.com. He looks like an amiable, old-school programmer who’s up for learning new tricks. I’ve mentioned the instability to him and also asked how one can get more fields to show in the left-hand list of notes (new collections only show “Title”, but his own help file shows “Seq” and “Title”). I’m hoping we can build a positive, development-boosting relationship!
The idea is sensational. I’m interested to see how it evolves.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 5, 2019 at 09:09 AM
#soypunk, re: Hypertexts
Yes, I see why you’d want page renaming, but I think that may be overlooking one of the strengths of the app, which is the automation of its linking function. I agree, this is unusual, and may not suit everybody, but if you wanted to rename a page, one option would be to copy it, create a link from the old page to the new page, and go from there. That would also represent a kind of audit trail.
I’m not quite sure about the use case, and the price of the macOS version is a little steep for what is effectively a slightly enhanced text editor. But I’m going to experiment with the iOS version and see what happens.
As for exports: it’s creating simple text files in an iCloud folder, which you can open in the app of your choice. No need to export, really.