Notebooks – Write and Organize

Documents, Tasks and Files

Published by: Alfons Schmid

Description

Notebooks is a comprehensive writing app with a powerful text and Markdown editor, which you can use as personal Wiki, Zettelkasten, file and document organizer, task manager, PDF/eBook creator and much more—all in one place. You can seamlessly transform quick notes into actionable tasks, combine text fragments into chapters of a book, organize research material, and keep business documents separate from personal diaries without ever switching apps. Stay focused and unleash your creativity with Notebooks’ versatile and intuitive features. - You'll quickly come to appreciate this unique combination of features.
• Notebooks stores all your documents as regular files in standard formats. You are always in control of your documents, never need to worry about how to export them, and they remain compatible across devices and over time.
• Create formatted documents with styles, attachments, tables or checklists, and add a table of contents if you like. Choose between a variation of ready made document styles, or create your own, if you want.
• Write your documents in plain text and allow Notebooks to automatically handle lists, highlight and center the current line on screen, automatically insert closing characters for (, {, [, " and more. - Plain text is a universal format which can be used on any device without any specific software.
• Use Markdown to create formatted documents from plain text. Notebooks supports *MultiMarkdown* and its own flavor of *Discount*. – Click any word in a formatted Markdown text and start writing at that position. You can even create checklists (- [ ]) and tick them off in formatted view. Syntax highlighting and a set of dedicated extra keyboard keys make Markdown editing easy.

• Use your Apple Pencil to sketch ideas or annotate images and PDF documents.
• Use Notebooks' advanced editing capabilities to work on documents which are stored in other apps.
• Compile selected documents or the contents of whole books into a single document, an eBook or a PDF document.
• Link between documents in Notebooks. In Markdown you can even use Wiki style links ([[ ]]). When clicking a link to a document which does not yet exist, Notebooks suggests to create it. And when you move or rename documents, Notebooks makes sure the links remain intact.
• Create as many books as you need to structure your projects and details. Nest books as deep as you like, there is no limit in Notebooks. If you ever loose track, Notebooks' full text search helps you quickly turn up even the most hidden document.
• Turn books into task lists to display document as tasks which can be ticked off. Assign due dates and alerts, and divide projects into nested sub projects, which makes them easier to handle.
• For simple lists you can use checklists in formatted documents and Markdown.
• Assign Context tags to books and documents to create shortcuts that are accessible for a smart book at Notebooks' top level. – Notebooks can even extract context tags from the contents of documents as you create them.
• Import all documents and files you want to keep close at hand, no matter whether PDF, email, web pages, MS Office or iWorks, photos, videos, music and more.
• Scan documents and extract text using OCR (iOS 13)
• Sync files between iPads, iPhones, Mac or PC.
With all these features, Notebooks may quickly become your go-to repository for everything you want to keep close at hand.
User Comments:
“Notebooks is a wonderful App, which is so much better than the dozen other note apps I tried. It is sophisticated, in an unassuming way, so that you find yourself greatly rewarded and being productive without sacrificing time/effort to the App. I cannot tell you how much productivity I have gained. I am having a huge amount of fun, I use it constantly, more than the phone on my iPhone in fact."
“You are GTD in every way that makes it efficient and makes me efficient.”
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4.8 out of 5

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Notebooks Reviews

Just great

Paulgdionne on

Canada

I use it everyday. For all my project, though and more. I really recommend

I have been using this for over 10 years

MikePid on

Canada

I have it on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. I mostly use it for keeping various notes. Very reliable and great syncing. If you want something more than the built-in Notes app (which I never use), this is worth a look. I started using it because it allowed me to easily transfer all my notes from the Palm Pilot (back in the day!)

This app needs more visibility in the App Store

oakbank24 on

Canada

This app is excellent and is the perfect replacement for Evernote or OneNote. I use this exclusively for my work notes because I like to separate by work life from my personal life. I use this app following the GTD methodology. It’s excellent. The developer is very responsive to suggestions that I have made in the past. It should have a higher placement in the App Store when you do a search for notebook applications.

Excellent iOS Notebook App

Weaver847536 on

Canada

I have been using Notebooks for iOS (and MacOS) for several years and am very impressed. Feature rich but not bloated with useless gimmicks or updated only for the sake of updating it provides a complete system for note taking and organizing, including PDF support. The upfront cost might seem expensive but you only pay once and aren’t forced to “rent” it forever like with so many other similar, but poorer quality, products so the price is actually quite reasonable. A very robust and flexible product. I highly recommend it.

Note taking on steroids.

Specul8 on

Canada

I have been using Notepad since I purchased my first iPad in 2011. It is flexible container for all kinds of notes. It is my go to tool on iOS for storing information.

My Favourite App for Thinking

The App-erator on

Canada

I have tried many apps, including Bear (which I just gave up on because I can’t put my many tags into folders). This app helps me take a blob of thoughts in my brain and turn the blob into an concise structure that shows me something deeper about my ideas. It’s like Ulysses in that way, but without the subscription fees. Actually, I like this app even better than Ulysses because the formatting makes my ideas clearer to myself. The clarity saves me hours of faffing about and often leads me to even better ideas.

Useful. Could be more useful.

Simonmontreal on

Canada

I am rapidly coming to use this app regularly, for quick collection of sources in a handy spot for later use of them in a final product. It would be easier if file-creation could be done quickly from the point of saving rather than having to open the app and pre-prepare the file for receiving the filing.

Love this app

Garpoonga on

Canada

I love this app so much I have paid for each of the major releases. I find it to be very stable and reliable. This is the electronic file cabinet you have dreamed of. The creator is also very accessible when you do have a problem. Only one time I had a major issue but thanks to dropbox sync I didn’t lose anything. One strategy I use to to turn off automatic sync, this way if anything does happen you will have a 2 or more backups between Dropbox and iPad etc. The creator takes great pride in this app and Thankfully has stayed away from subscriptions. For these reasons I will continue to support this app by purchasing the major releases.

Great Writing App

psalmist7 on

United States

I really enjoy this app, I use it every day.

Very responsive developer

Hope'n'change on

United States

Returning to this app. Very Attractive. Like that it syncs through iCloud. Initial problem quickly fixed by developer.

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