Notebooks for iPhone Answers

Kshivner

Features and Mac Version

Kshivner, September 14, 2010 00:36

I need to be able to paste in graphics from like web pages, bold text etc. I am looking for something to use for notes and as a knowledge base so you can search for a string and find it anywhere in your application. So far it seems for such an advanced product iPad and Mac has nothing that works on both. I need to be able to edit/add on the mac or ipad in the same application with the same features like evernote does except its display on the ipad is crap you can not read the words in your notes too small and zooming is not an option

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Alfons Schmid, September 21, 2010 12:23

Hi Keshiv,

I know exactly what you are talking about. We wish we were able (=allowed) to make Notebooks exactly the app you are envisioning, and in fact we were very close to it about a year ago. We had added text styles, formatting, lists and embedded photos. - Unfortunately, we pushed the limits too far and Apple asked us to remove all that fancy stuff from Notebooks. We have been limited to plain text since.

As far as pasting graphics and web pages is concerned, you can easily do that in Notebooks, as long as you don't want that to be editable.

Most document formats in Notebooks are full-text searchable, so just enter a string and you will find HTML, RTF, doc etc.

Adding/editing on the Mac is no problem, either. Just sync the contents of Notebooks to your Mac and take your favorite app (Pages, Word, TextEdit, ...) to work on the documents. You can mount Notebooks like an external drive and open/edit the documents directly. - Or you wait a couple of days and use Dropbox for a pretty seamless experience.

So, while this leaves your vision still a vision, there is already a lot you can do in Notebooks ;-)

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Silverboy98, February 18, 2011 01:57

"We had added text styles, formatting, lists and embedded photos. - Unfortunately, we pushed the limits too far and Apple asked us to remove all that fancy stuff from Notebooks. We have been limited to plain text since."

Why would Apple do that when there are so many apps that have these features. NoteMaster has bulleted lists and embedded photos. Awesome Note has embedded photos. Some to-do apps have checklists. There are plenty of iPad Note apps that have all kinds of formatting. Color me confused.

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Imarkb, February 25, 2011 22:44

I've created a free app that will let you manage your Notebooks information on your Mac computer, assuming you are synchronizing with Dropbox.

http://www.markburgess.us/NotebooksCompanion/index.htm





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