![]() I found that I could take a CPN notebook for one of the writing projects I'm working on now and (sadly) manually move all its contents into Scrivener. Scrivener will make the documents but I never made use of it for notes. I guess that since the subject matter is non-linear my writing style is non-linear, so these programs are quite natural for me!Īnyway, CPN is great for organizing but doesn't make final documents. Scrivener gave me back the capabilities that I mostly lost 30 years earlier. Somehow I could never get excited about outliner programs, and I did have a copy of Omni Outliner which came with my first Mac in 2004. I started writing that way using a program called Kamas in the early 1980s and found that the compartmentalization and ability to quickly rearrange the outline/document sections was a big boost to productivity. I generally don't use outlines on the individual pages but use these tools as outliners that allow putting text and images (and other documents) under each outline item. CPN was unusual (at least unusual to me) in that it has both a top level outline (contents card) and could have outlines on individual pages. There is no outlining capability in the text itself. In Scrivener you can consider the Binder (the left pane) to be an outline that you can attach blocks of text to. But I had never used it for notes, using CPN instead where I've had longer experience. I use Scrivener for non-fiction, technical writing. I don't think it meets criteria 3 but it more or less meets criteria 2 in the form of tabs. I've used Tree 1 and am considering Tree 2. This is an unknown entity for me and I haven't found many reviews, but the feature set looks promising ( )Ĭ) Tree. I use and own Curio but the outlining capacity is not as advanced as CPN.ī) NeO. Evernote is set up to sync with Outline, but Outline doesn't meat criteria 3.Ī) Curio. I own and use Devonthink and Evernote and think they are both great, but they don't have a dedicated outlining capacity. One of the best options I've found so far is NoteTaker, but I've read reports that the app is no longer being developed ( ). I own omnioutliner but have used it for different purposes than CPN, because it doesn't meet criteria 2. ability to have multiple outlines in the same file/document The main functionality I'd like to find in a different app are:Ģ. For pinpoint searches, look for tagged notes that contain specific text.I'm was really sorry to see CPN go and now I'm looking for alternatives. You can also tag notes using built-in categories and search for tagged notes with one click. ![]() A single click on a result takes you to that note. Notes lets you search all open notebooks for any text, and shows you the results in context. Finding a specific note a week later is another. All the open notebooks are shown in one window, for easy navigation and quick jumps.Īppearances are (almost) everything With Notes you can change the appearance of everything on the page, from the color and font of text to the background color of the page and whether it has rule lines - even put a picture behind all the notes like a watermark.īut you can also change the look of the Notes program itself! We prefer the colorful tabs shown above, but if you find them distracting you can change the tab colors, remove the tab colors, or just give up on the tabs altogether and use a traditional Mac interface.Ĭreating a notebook is one thing. Notebooks are organized into sections (the larger tabs on the left in the image above), each of which contains as many pages as you like. Put two snippets of text right next to each other. There are no rules for where things have to go: put an image beside text, or under it. Pages can contain almost anything: formatted text, images, movies, audio clips, PDF files, tables, lists, web and file links, and drawings you create in Notes. Scrapbook your images, web links, and video clips. Organize research projects, trips, to-do lists, or journals. Organize your information Growly Notes lets you capture everything you’re interested in, all in one place. Gather text, images, links and anything else you can think of in free-form pages organized into sections. Growly Notes is a note-taking app somewhat like Microsoft OneNote.
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