I have mixed feelings ...

about this app. I think that in the end, whether it’s THE notes app for you depends on what you need.

I currently use NoteSuite because on both iOS and OSX it can
1) create rich text format (RTF) files. For RTF, this includes a drawing/writing mode in addition to normal keyboard entry (in iOS),
2) create PDF files of web pages, just enter the URL - you can pdf the whole page or just the main panel,
3) create to-do lists
4) create tags
5) uses iCloud syncing and can connect to DropBox, Box, Google Drive, Instapaper, and Pocket to copy files to. (I can’t copy files from DropBox using iOS, but with iCloud sync, I can get files from OSX’s NoteSuite to the Mac’s DropBox folder.)
6) nest folders.

On the OSX version, you can drag in graphics.

Admittedly I don’t rely on all these features, but 1, 2, 5 and 6 are critical. So I decided to explore Notebooks to see what it offered for me. It does “connect” with Scrivener via DropBox, a nice plus for me. But while I can add an RTF file inside a notebook, I can only view it there, I can’t edit it. The native writing formats it does support are text and HTML. I guess I wasn’t reading the specs carefully enough, because I thought it would support writing RTF. Alas, no. I use other RTF apps on the mac and those files originating in NoteSuite can be opened by my other RTF apps on the mac. I don’t care for Notebooks HTML “formatted” files. However there are other pluses for Notebooks: Markdown has become indispensable for a lot of writers, and Notebooks does support it nicely. It has a good search function. It also supports hierarchical notebooks (nested folders). The iOS-OSX interaction interaction with Dropbox, Notebooks also does very well

So the bottom line is, what do you needs a note app for? You need to look at Notebooks vs other note apps carefully and think about your needs. For me, I frequently find good material at various websites, and the ability to create a PDF of the web page by copying the location while in Safari, then having NoteSuite recognize a URL in the clipboard and offer to convert to PDF is very important to me. That and RTF format makes NoteSuite a better choice for me.

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