Is anyone using NoteSuite as an all-purpose clipping repository, brain-dump, to-do, etc., a la Evernote, without the fussiness, or DevonThink without the learning curve?
Now that Scrivener for iOS seems a sooner-rather-than-later loomer-upon-the-horizon, I’ll probably break down and buy an iPad when the next iterations roll out, but I’m not sure that Scrivener’s scratch pad is up to the task of constant note-taking, in quite the same non-project-specific-fashion as something like NoteSuite (or Evernote, or OneNote, or whatever).
I’m not using any of the clipping capabilities as that’s already covered here with DTPro - but I am using it as a `work journal’. I use DayOne for the personal stuff but that only allows for one journal and so Notesuite is for a broader view of what I’m writing, what I’ve been editing, and snippets from the music business. The advantage is that as things occur that need a follow up I can immediately make them a to-do on the integrated lists. I used to use a Taskpaper project for this but not having to open another app is useful. Probably an under-utilisation, but as David says it’s incredibly inexpensive, so it suits me even so …
Thanks for the insight. I used Taskpaper for a while but found it redundant with Scrivener’s scratchpad; eventually I uninstalled it, after realizing I hadn’t opened it in three months. Taskpaper evolved from Hog Bay Notebook, which I loved, and for which I’ve still found no replacement.
DTPro is overkill for me–I tried it, in several versions over the years, but somehow it never clicked, perhaps because my research needs are comparatively modest compared with my Grab-this-Thought-before-it-Evaporates needs.
I’ll give NoteSuite a try. Its price is certainly modest enough.
Very similar to OneNote. $4.99 direct from GrowlyBird. Currently there isn’t an iPad version but I believe there is one on the way. Doubt there will ever be a Windows version.
I use Notebooks, sync’d through Dropbox, so everything’s easily available on both computers and my iPhone — no iPad yet — but I haven’t tried importing anything into Scrivener …
If you’re willing to use the Chrome browser,
You may take all of your notes there.
I use SimpleNote for ideas or passages,
Pocket for saving web pages,
and Keep for to-do items.
There’s also an app called Quick Note
That’s highly popular with its users.
Not to mention a version of EverNote
Plus Google Docs
All these are free and run in all platforms
on phone, tablet, lap- or desk- top.
However, it’s really easy to have a Scriv project
Called Notes and drag-drop or type anything there.
Just keep its alias on your Desktop.
I tried Chrome and found it too shiny for my elderly eyes. I actually have a small Scriv project called Notes–well, it was small, back in 2006 or so, before it filled up with all those Notes.
Ideal for my admittedly eccentric needs would be a version of Scratchpad that could be summoned with command-shift-return whether there’s a Scrivener project open or not, and which could be synched with its various projects (send this note to WIP, send this note to Editing, send this note to Recipes, send this note to To-Do) at a specific time, or on command).
I tried Circus Ponies Notebook years ago, and found it useful, but not useful enough, over time. Same with Taskpaper. Macjournal I liked the longest, but then it got bought and turned into something rather more grandiose than I needed.
Your Scratchpad with sort baskets
Sounds much like DTP’s Sorter
It sits on the side of my screen
And I drag-drop bits of e-mail
and other files to it, for placing
in various trays marked with
project names. A very efficient way
of dealing with stuff that I don’t
want to delete and think might
be vaguely useful somewhere/time
Which makes me feel that writing
Is very like maintaining an attic
or a garage that I purge only now
and then. As I am in fact doing on this
Labor Day, and happy LD to you and yours.
Sounds workable–except that I tried DTP in an earlier iteration and couldn’t quite wrap my head around it. For me, it seemed like learning to pilot a stealth drone so I could swat a fly. But that’s just me.
Enjoy your LD. Mine features two somewhat similar tasks: forking out the old poultry bedding into the new compost pile, and spreading six bales of straw in the poultry houses for the winter; and reading an inBox a-bulge with 62 manuscript submissions.
Though, as a nod to the holiday, there’ll be the obligatory LD lobster feed shortly thereafter.
Week after next, though, I’m headed to the West Branch to camp for a week on Big Island (putting in at Lobster Stream) and fish with a fish-writer friend from CO. The skeeters and tourii will be gone, and the salmon should be up from Chesuncook.