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The new versions of Notebooks (12 & 3) are here!
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Posted by Darren McDonald
Jul 7, 2023 at 06:36 AM
I’m newly impressed with what Notebooks has become. I have been searching for an app that is a less bloated version of Scrivener to use when I am writing an academic paper or book (long-form writing). I played around with Notebooks again when the developer Alfons Schmid made some big changes.
At the time the app was first released, I failed to understand all the features, due in part to some of the pull-down menus being weirdly named. This lead me to think that some features I was after were not there. So, I abandoned the app.
For instance, I found I needed to make the text was inputting larger in appearance. I saw that I could make the fonts bigger in the Format menu. But I didn’t want to make the FONTS larger, just the text appear larger on the screen without changing the actual font size. I only today realized that this is actually what this menu is referring to.
This time around I persisted and I am totally in awe of the app for long-form writing. The Mac version is clean visually and very fast. (I only use macOS and iOS so I don’t know what the Windows version is like). The lack of bloat does not mean a lack of powerful features. I thought I would be stuck with a bloated Scrivener, or Novellus without an iOS version. Notebooks is looking to become a solid partner.
By the way, I remember filling out a survey for the developer of Scrivener a couple of years ago with the hint that a less bloated version would be developed. I have not been able to find any further information about this. Mmm ...