FSNotes

Once upon a time there was a legendary minimalist note taking system for macOS called notational velocity. It simplified and optimised and was loved by many. FSNotes is a spiritual successor to NV (and children like NVAlt). Running FSNotes on multiple desktop and mobile devices uses iCloud which works perfectly. The UI is elegant, capturing the simple search/create unified mode of NV, but adding project folders alongside synced tagging. The macOS version has versioning and other additional features. The developer and open source contributors are active and very engaged, and are responsive to feature suggestions. Altogether a wonderful note taking/searching/syncing experience!!!

what I like is that I can edit notes on Mac using normal text editor (I use Bean) and they auto sync to FSNotes app on iPhone and iPad. Using three devices means that on rare occasions there will be a conflict but no worries: versions are preserved. Please do not abandon support for .rtf. This is not listed in file types but still works!

Once upon a time there was a legendary minimalist note taking system for macOS called notational velocity. It simplified and optimised and was loved by many. FSNotes is a spiritual successor to NV (and children like NVAlt). Running FSNotes on multiple desktop and mobile devices uses iCloud which works perfectly. The UI is elegant, capturing the simple search/create unified mode of NV, but adding project folders alongside synced tagging. The macOS version has versioning and other additional features. The developer and open source contributors are active and very engaged, and are responsive to feature suggestions. Altogether a great note taking/searching/syncing experience!!!

This app works as advertised. It is especially useful if you have lots of short notes to catalogue and regularly search - just like notational velocity did. I am using it to store references and quotations, and have thousands of them. It works a treat: I can create, edit and search notes so quickly and it has been 100% stable so far. The tagging function is a really powerful feature which makes large numbers of notes manageable and this is really simply but well implemented. A double bonus is no subscriptions (normal folk like me cannot afford subscriptions for dozens of everyday apps - but happy to pay for apps and new versions if the price is fair, as here). My thanks to the developer for filling the gap with this app and pricing - highly recommended.

Glad I supported the developer by buying this, since the Mac app has finally replaced NValt for me. However, the iOS app is unusable for me at the moment. It can’t sync with Dropbox or any other cloud storage, beyond creating its own iCloud Drive folder. This doesn’t work because many other programs can’t access it, the point of using a plaintext workflow is to be outside of locked-in ecosystems. Hope a better cloud solution comes soon. The app itself also feels a bit scrappy, compared to the ease of 1Writer, my go-to notes app. Hope to see future improvements!

Would it be possible to add an option for the user to select the app accent color? As well as create our own syntax themes. They could be imported or created within the app

When I open the app I get the logo screen. After counting 19 seconds the app crashes. Maybe I can use it as a timer if I ever have something to do that takes exactly 19 seconds. To be fair it's a great app when it works. But previous versions have deleted ALL of my notes and now it doesn't work at all.

Good times when you edit a note then back out and have 20 copies of it. Love that I have to keep going to my computer to clean up messes made by the phone app. Oh well.

New version will not open on iPhone 11 even after updating to latest version and reinstalling.

The new update/ interface automatically crashes when opening the app (on a iPad only). Can only use on iPhone. Please fix