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Posted by LateForDinner
Dec 6, 2021 at 06:30 PM
I’m looking for opinions for anyone using AquaMinds NoteTaker. I looked at it years ago when it was a direct competitor to Circus Ponies Notebook, and went with Circus Ponies. I’m considering it for my purposes now, which is for personal research for hobbies and interests. I’d like something that has decent web clipping capabilties. As much as I’ve tried to get onboard the Markdown train, it doesn’t work for me.
I’ve considered OneNote as well, but it appears that for Mac there is no viable offline, backup option. What I see in OneDrive is a link. While I don’t think Microsoft is going anywhere, I need the security of a local backup. If I am mistaken, and OneNote can be backed up and restored via Mac, let me know.
Happy Holidays!
Posted by marlowe
Dec 6, 2021 at 11:30 PM
NoteTaker works well for me as a CPN replacement. I use the clipper only occasionally, but it has worked well when I’ve tried it. The index feature is great.
Posted by Larry Kollar
Dec 7, 2021 at 02:11 PM
LateForDinner wrote:
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>I’ve considered OneNote as well, but it appears that for Mac there is no
>viable offline, backup option. What I see in OneDrive is a link. While I
>don’t think Microsoft is going anywhere, I need the security of a local
>backup. If I am mistaken, and OneNote can be backed up and restored via
>Mac, let me know.
If you want local backup, can you set up an external hard drive and turn on Time Machine? That’s what I do. Works great.
Posted by LateForDinner
Dec 7, 2021 at 03:34 PM
Have you restored a OneNote notebook? I am not challenging you, but I have looked in to this multiple times. I see some people saying it is possible, but I have not found anyone that claims to have successfully done it. According to the quote below, it is not possible.
Copied from https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-to-retrieve-onenote-from-a-mac-time-machine/7ade7f8d-773f-4b4f-aa14-ed4fe8bf1018
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Qing Tang MSFT
Microsoft Agent | Moderator
Replied on June 12, 2019
About the Time Machine feature, as the notebook isn’t stored on Mac, Time Machine only backup the OneNote cache, it is in fact a copy of all opened notebooks but in a special binary and fragmented format for sync purposes only. It’s not usable as a backup because you can’t restore any information from it.
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Over the Christmas holiday I may find the time to make a notebook and try it.
Thanks for the input.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 7, 2021 at 04:46 PM
I have NoteTaker, but to be honest never use it. I’m much more likely to use either Evernote (excellent web clipper), UpNote (also very good web clipper) or Bear (good web clipper) to save web pages. I often end up storing them in Notebooks, my main repository for useful info.
NoteTaker only exists for macOS, unfortunately, whereas Evernote and UpNote are both available for a very broad range of platforms (including Windows and Android, which is what my current smartphone is running). Bear and Notebooks run well on macOS, iOS and iPadOS, but not on any other OSes.
Bear and UpNote are both extremely good at converting web pages to markdown, which saves a lot of disk space. I also sometimes save web pages as PDFs directly to my Inbox folder in Notebooks. Evernote is very flexible, but obviously costs more than any of the other apps mentioned.
LateForDinner wrote:
I’m looking for opinions for anyone using AquaMinds NoteTaker. I looked
>at it years ago when it was a direct competitor to Circus Ponies
>Notebook, and went with Circus Ponies. I’m considering it for my
>purposes now, which is for personal research for hobbies and interests.
>I’d like something that has decent web clipping capabilties. As much as
>I’ve tried to get onboard the Markdown train, it doesn’t work for me.
>
>I’ve considered OneNote as well, but it appears that for Mac there is no
>viable offline, backup option. What I see in OneDrive is a link. While I
>don’t think Microsoft is going anywhere, I need the security of a local
>backup. If I am mistaken, and OneNote can be backed up and restored via
>Mac, let me know.
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>Happy Holidays!
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