Oct 08
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Notae 1.2.2
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| Notae is a full-featured and lightweight notebook with instant full-text searching and complete import and export functionality. It can even read your notes out to iTunes, and thus your iPod. Notae includes a Mac OS X Service to grab any text or file selection and keep it as a note. Its open document format (XML or SQLite) allows for other creative uses. Really, it’s TextEdit on performance-enhancing code.
Notae also helps you fight lock-in, even for itself. You can import and export any of the following document types: plain text, RTF, RTFD, Word DOC, WordML, and HTML. If your note is about something other than text, just drag a file into any note and Notae will keep it around for you and let you drag it out any time. |
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October 9th, 2006 at 12:04 am
Hm… I like xPad a lot better :).
October 9th, 2006 at 12:05 am
I just can’t see spending $7.50 on an app that does almost nothing more than most text-editors. Sure, notes are good, but do I really need them in my iTunes library? I can already put them on my iPod as text.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:51 am
Looks like good app for the newbies who didn’t jump on KIT or get xPad.
The iTunes export and the everything import/export is major plus for this!
October 9th, 2006 at 1:04 am
I just downloaded the demo and I think xPad is better. I just took this icon and stuck it on xPad’s. Much better!
October 9th, 2006 at 1:06 am
not another notetaker I already have KIT and xPad (both I never use! )
October 9th, 2006 at 1:06 am
After checking the site, I ahve to ask:
Do the other note apps use Core Data? That seems like a very BIG plus for notae!
October 9th, 2006 at 1:28 am
what a cute icon!
October 9th, 2006 at 1:49 am
I much prefer Mori. Sure its file format is proprietary, but it actually works like a notebook rather than Notepad.
Got that thing for free, too, thanks to MyDreamApp.
October 9th, 2006 at 2:07 am
(author) FWIW, I added iPod textual export tonight and that should be in the next update, bringing the export feature up to and past xPad’s. That version is not released yet, but should be once I wrap up a couple of more items. But the feature is done-done and will be in the next version.
The appeal, IMHO, of Notae is in the methodology of importing every file it can and letting you tag and search them, and edit as you would in any good word processor rather than being limited to plain text. That’s what I wanted so it’s what I made. If it appeals to you, that’s great, I’m happy. If not, that’s entirely understandable. Note-taking and data collection is a very finicky and personal thing, which is why there’s a 101 programs that do it.
But, really, try it for a bit, add things, search around a little. See if it works the way you want first. :)
October 9th, 2006 at 2:21 am
Another Notebook??
October 9th, 2006 at 2:41 am
…like the new buttons, they’re sweeeeet.
October 9th, 2006 at 3:00 am
Nice icon…
October 9th, 2006 at 3:28 am
mackid: i wanted to do that too! but i don’t know how to put a new icon on another app. how did you?
October 9th, 2006 at 3:31 am
sorry i just figured it out. i tried dragging and dropping and that didn’t work. but a copy/paste did.
October 9th, 2006 at 5:57 am
I’ve done a lot of complaining lately, but I say another note app doesn’t bother me at all. They all have pluses and minuses and lost cost versions like this or xPad would likely work well for a lot of people out there. Note and GTD apps seem the next logical killer apps as more and more people start to use them. Hell, I have licenses to DEVONthink Pro, DEVONnote, StickyBrain/SOHO Notes, K.I.T., and I’m sure a couple I can’t remember. And there are free ones out there like the unusual Notational Velocity. Anyway DEVONthink gets by far most of my time, but it, like the others, has issues so I say continue the support.
October 9th, 2006 at 6:37 am
Did anyone notice the icon is actually a drawing of a Moleskine?…
October 9th, 2006 at 7:00 am
Happy Birthday to me!
So I get Notae, that’s cool. Can’t complain. There have been a lot of note taking apps lately, I really do like K.I.T. which I picked up here one way or another. Notae looks interesting so I’ll take a look.
Maybe somebody needs to create an app that keeps all the various note taking apps in sync with each other. NoteSyncer now with NoteZapper!
It’s too early in the morning to be thinking.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:50 am
First off.. K.I.T. is not a note taker.. if used as its name implies, it’s a way of keeping all types of media in one place.. or at least links to. The note feature is a feature, not the core of the app.
xpad is pretty nice though. I don’t need to have my notes read to me by Albert or whoever.
That said, having a notebook type app is very helpful, and if you missed xpad, this seems like a nice deal.
October 9th, 2006 at 11:50 am
The icon is very sweet. :D I wish it had something more unique to it as well as I can’t justify the purchase with x-pad always purring in the background.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Umm, search? xPad doesn’t really do cross-note search as far as I can find…
October 9th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
The tagging is very nice, but not enough to take that one instead of xPad or Mori.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
I think K.I.T. works great as a note taker. It also keeps stuff all in one place, but in my mind everything is essentially a note. I think you’re being a little too literal about this note taking thing.
If I used Photoshop to take notes and it worked for me I don’t know why anybody would care, except you maybe. Is photoshop a note taker? Nope. But why worry about it.
October 9th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
I like moleskine. I don’t need app.
October 9th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
I can’t use any notebook that doesn’t have infinite nesting of notes. I’m thinking in trees, not flat lists.
October 9th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Then … don’t?
October 9th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
kL,
Which note apps offer trees? I really dig that, as well!
I realize I’m probably misisng some features in what I already own…
October 9th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
I think it’s GREAT that this app is on macZOT! – no I will not be buying it nor do I need it, but what I’ve seen the past several days is macZOT! addressing the issues everyone had about new software, etc. I personally love xPad and have no need to replace it, but the fact that today I could buy a discounted version of notae which rivals macZOT!’s own software shows me that they are really trying to offer great deals. Nice work ZOT!
October 9th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Feedback on the new design: I don’t think the new “News” and “Discuss” buttons look very good. Unless MacZOT! is about to change the entire site design, the new buttons look out of place.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
I *like* the new buttons. The color doesn’t seem to compliment the rest of the scheme, but I really like the look and the shading.
Another note app? Yes! If it was a note app every other day for a couple of weeks, I’d whine. But like somebody said, they’re all different, pluses and minuses abound, and I like that if we don’t care for one, like a woman or a bus, there will be another along in a bit.
For a non-sequiter, let’s see OmniDazzle!
Another random thought, I like the navigation at the top of the page. Makes getting around *MUCH* easier. My first few days here were pretty frustrating.
Back on track, I’ve got K.I.T. and xPad. I haven’t used the former yet, but the latter looks to be just what I want. And I have StickyBrain and SOHO notes (SB’s successor) and neither one of them have been used.
I wish mZ had come along sooner!
October 9th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
I won’t be trying Notae, but being able to export notes to iTunes, and sync them to the iPod without enabling Disk mode, and dragging stuff to the Notes folder, seems pretty cool!
Assuming Notae works that way.
October 9th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Christian, I am addicted to moleskines :D
October 9th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
yeah the moleskine icon was my main reason for considering this app, but after trying it out, it doesn’t beat KIT which i currently use. it keeps my stuff together, AND is a great searchable notepad app. i also own a license for xpad, but haven’t found a need for it when KIT does the same thing better (why no search in xpad!?).