Nodebook - Organize Your Ideas

This app is the best opml reader i have come across and i have spent probably $50 trying to find the best one. I wish I had tried this one first. If you are like me and wish you could reader your omnioutlines on your phone this is the app for you. You can just export from omnioutline to dropbox as an opml and open it in the app. The best feature of this app is the ability to isolate sections of the outline for viewing. This is awesome if your outline has a deep hierarchy. In other apps, if your outline goes deeper than 3 or 4 levels the text will be indented so far as to have like one word per line, which is absolutely unreadable. In nodebook you click the little arrow next to the subsection you want to isolate and you can view it like it is the entire outline. Awesome.

The interface is very difficult to figure out and the developer's web site doesn't provide much information to try and understand how to use the app. Save your time until more effort is put into the app.

Tested on iPhone 4.1. Most of the problems other reviewers have had could be solved if a short tutorial or help file were included in the App. You can move rows when you click on "edit". The thin"down arrow" button does do something - it takes you to the bottom of the outline. Save worked for me. Exported the file, but did not have an app on my iphone that can import OPML & read the file properly (or easily). $1.99 is too much for the additional functions or features. Needs more features or capabilities. But, now that I have an IPad, I can send the OPML by email from my iphone and open it on my iPad. I also found other apps that can use the data. When I first downloaded the app, I was hoping that each new outline that you created (or each new note you wrote) would not be a separate page and each page of notes or outlines was tabbed. It would be good, if a app out there would work by clicking a tab and you would bring up a new outline or tree of notes. This is closer to the idea of a "node" which is a network structure not a simple linear tree or hierarchy structure.

This seems to be on the right track to being a simple, hierarchical note program but is in fact another tap-tap-tap annoying iPad yeah-we're-so-cool-we-don't-need-to-explain exercise in frustration. I won't say it's worthless, but if someone could make something like this so that you could move notes up and down within a node, - preferably by holding and pushing them - you'd be on to something great. I'd like to tap on a note line to explore sub-notes. With this app, unless you tap the very small arrow at the very right side of a note line, it brings you into 'edit note' mode. For people who like puzzles, on every screen there's a 'down arrow' button that does absolutely nothing. I was hoping it would allow me to change the order of notes in a node. Silly moi! Hey, if can make sense of this and explain how to use it, please do, because, as I said, it's on the right track

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This is perfect for organizing data that has random attributes. I'm using it now for recommended books to read. I group them by subject and I add the author, DD#, and any other random info that I want. I get better organizational structure than a note app without the overhead and complexity of a database. I haven't had the nonsave issue that previous users had; it must have been fixed with v1.1.1.

I was excited to see this app, as there is a tremendous need for a decent, workable outliner for iOS devices. I've tried all I can find, and this seemingly had much to offer, but falls short in a couple of areas. It operates more like a serial notetaker (with access to many notes at once) than an outliner. It promises OPML file import and export, but neither of them are functional. And, it doesn't save your data (in the free version), so you need to save and close your "node" frequently so you don't lose your data. I would appreciate an easy way--swiping, double-space, something--to create sub-points, then I would consider it an outliner; with OPML import and export (as promised) it would serve as a decent notetaking app (better on iPad than on iPhone), then I might try paying the $1.99 and would use it a lot, just to be able to not lose my data if I don't save my document after every sentence. I hope it improves.

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So, this is an outliner program, that in the current version lets you import OPML files form email and export them to email. iTunes import didn't work for me. It works as advertised, but has limited utility - each outline only has a title and nothing else (no checkbox etc). I guess it could be fun if you like outlining strings of text? To elaborate: the app allows you to expand/collapse the outlines, restrict view to a sub-tree, move the outlines around the tree, delete them, create new outlines, import an OPML from email to any point within the tree and export any subtree as OPML via email. It's just that I'm not sure what to do with it. By the way, the mysterious button "down-arrow" scrolls current screen all the way to the end. Took me a while to figure it out. :)

This is basically an outliner program, which allows you to write indefinitely long notes with other notes embedded under them. If you poke around on the interface for a while, you"ll find that you can do most of the standard outliner things, like move notes up and down in the list and higher and lower in the hierarchy. The app has the added advantage of an alternative "node" view, which presents the outline as a simple list of the notes at the level you're looking at, with the child notes hidden "inside" each. That's sort of cool. Current problems: -only export is an email with a note's text. This app needs to export the standard opml outline format! -no hiding/showing child notes in outline view--a basic and necessary outliner function. "Hiding" only works in node view. -no ability to separate a note's title from it's text. That is going to make it hard to view a long outline. -no documentation, and a somewhat clunky interface. I *think* I found everything the app can do, but there's still one button that doesn't seem to do anything! Finally, be warned: the free version of the app may be crippled. There's an in-app purchase of the real version for $1.99, including the "autosave" function!