Notebooks – Write and Organize

This is the best note taking app I’ve used though there are still some features I wish were implemented but overall worth the money. My biggest wish would be not having to pay for the app a second time just to access my notes on my Macbook (which is where such an extensive note taking app actually becomes useful).

after years of use, accumulating a large amount of data, upgrading to iOS 17.4 stopped Notebooks syncing and thus became unusable. Extremely disappointed....

This developer is constantly hard at work improving & updating what was always the most amazing and useful notebook app I’ve ever used. As an example, in his latest update he introduced a new feature called ‘Favourites’ which allows you to ‘pin’ notes of your choice to the opening Home Screen. These favourites can be pinned or unpinned at any time. Absolutely brilliant. Furthermore the developer has NEVER failed to answer any questions I may have and he always responds promptly. Well done and keep up the excellent work!

For me, this is like one of those big fat notebooks with everything in it. You know the kind, held together with an elastic band. Except, this is electronic, the pages don’t fall out and it is easy to find stuff. No skill required. I love the nesting notebooks. I keep…well, anything I want to refer to really: my commonplace book; lists of books I read, want to read, book reviews; recipes; receipts; manuals; etc. etc. and so on and so forth. There wouldn’t be an elastic band big enough. And now it works with iCloud, it’s perfect.

The switch from reading to annotation is poorly implemented. This means that when annotating, the app will take you to the first page of the document. Similarly, when switching back to read mode, it will take you to the top of the document again. This makes for a poor reading experience. I think it's trying to be too many things and forgets essentials. Or maybe they do not see reading as an important feature. The only option is to go back to Devon ThinkToGo that have not updated for a long while now. They skipped ios13 entirely, does not have multiple windows nor dark mode. Yet, it still does basic tasks very well. (Such as reading and being able to annotate, organise files, etc). Edit: The developer claims it is ios problem. It is time to work with another writing engine ... this is because apple will try to make everyone use Apple notes when we would like options as well as Apple notes. They will not fix these issues quickly enough. Please fix so that I can use this wonderful app! I'll be happy to switch from devon Edit: This app is the only Markdown app that allows styling by css right in the app. Therefore, this WOULD have been my go-to writing app if can only export WORD, not just PDF.

I have been using notebooks for a number of years now. It has become my main app for all my things-I-need-to-keep-a-record-of. For example: After a phone call where there are some important details to remember, I jot the details down; Lists - To Do Lists, Shopping Lists; Tax deductions details etc.

I’ve been using it for over 10 years. It syncs beautifully with Dropbox and the upgrades over the years have kept it up with the times. Once you get use to the nomenclature that a “Book” is a Folder, it’s easy to use! I keep coming back to it.

When you want only one notebook. I use this for all my note taking and reference storage. All data is stored locally and available - no proprietary file formats. Have used this since the first beta release and it has continued to grow. I am able to store anything, turn anything into a task, extract tasks from notes. The addition of wiki-style links takes it to the next level. The default theme is business-like, it can be customised using css, but don’t expect shiny / extrovert design. This integrates well with Shortcuts on my phone, but this feature needs some more development to take advantage of all that Notebooks can offer. Great App.

When your good is better then your better is best. A hard working app that’s rapidly replacing ‘a well known app’ that’s an ‘expert’. It’s just more reliable and can do many other things like organising, writing and accessing as well as connecting to other apps. Thanks Immer besser...

Used this app for a few years now and replaced E—-Note. Handles everything I want to store, software details, general notes, journal, news clips, photos, videos, PDF’s, Web pages or links. Same data always available on my iPad, iPhone and PC. All kept in sync via DropBox. Very reliable and safe storage.