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“I want to thank you for the wonderful App, which is so much better than the dozen other note apps I tried on my iPhone. It is sophisticated, in an unassuming way, so that you find yourself greatly rewarded and being productive without sacrificing time/effort to the App. I cannot tell you how much productivity I have gained by staying with your Notebooks. I am having a huge amount of fun, I use it constantly, more than the phone on my iPhone in fact." - Craig, Australia
“You are GTD in every way that makes it efficient and makes me efficient.”
Notebooks is the one and only notebook that you'll ever need. It allows you to conveniently write, capture and organize your ideas, notes, reminders, journals, diaries or details of life that you want to keep close at hand. If you need to take an important note, or search for one, you'll always have the ultimate notebook at your fingertips!
What about those important documents on your computer that you would like to carry along, too? That is easy with Notebooks: simply import and view your PDF, iWork, MS Office, RTF and HTML documents, photos, Safari web archives and even your Palm Memos!
There is one more thing: keep your task lists in Notebooks and tick off your to-dos as you complete them. Divide your projects into nested sub projects for better handling, and cross-reference to your filing system or reference library, which is, of course, in Notebooks, too. When a task reaches its due date, Notebooks' badge on the home screen reminds you of pending business.
With Notebooks, you carry your whole world in your pocket!
What can you do with Notebooks?
• Type your notes and texts, no matter how long they are.
• Use landscape and fullscreen modes to maximize screen space and improve your typing experience.
• Select your favorite fonts, background colors and patterns.
• Use Markdown to create beautifully formatted documents.
• Import your text, HTML, RTF, PDF, MS Office, Apple iWork documents, photos or web archives.
• Import your iPhone Notes and Palm Memos.
• Quickly create new documents with the contents of the Clipboard.
• Import web pages from iPhone Safari.
• Import and extract ZIP archives, or create them in Notebooks
• Manage your Task Lists and get things done.
• Keep and maintain your reference library to support task management.
• Assign context tags to your tasks, notes and books.
• Create as many nested books as you need.
• Freely move, rename and restructure your documents and books.
• Sort documents by title, by creation or modification date or by custom sort order.
• Find your documents with full text search (plain text, HTML, iWork, Office, RTF and web archives).
• Protect your confidential documents with a passcode.
• Use Notebooks’ links (URLs) to cross-reference documents or books within Notebooks, or to open them from other applications.
• Synchronize with Dropbox or WebDAV servers.
• Use iTunes’ File Sharing or Notebooks’ WiFi Sharing to exchange documents.
• Send tasks to other task management apps (if you have them installed).
• Take advantage of TextExpander touch if you have it installed.
• … and much more.
Whether you want to draft or outline a business presentation, type a chapter of your short-story, list your inventory, save web pages for reading them later, write an entry in your diary or journal, tick off your tasks, or just capture notes and ideas on the go, you need to have Notebooks on your iPhone today!
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Notebooks - Write Notes, Manage Tasks and Store Files Review
Note taker benefits from in-app help, usable interface
by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com
Mac blogger (and occasional Macworld contributor) John Gruber wrote about the excellent Mac software Yojimbo a couple of months ago. According to Gruber, Yojimbo’s frictionless file creation (like Stickies, you never have to save your work—it’s saved as you type) and search were “like having a mind with an unfailing memory.”

Take Note: With Notebooks, you can create individual notes or groups of notes that the app calls notebooks.
There’s no iPhone version of Yojimbo. But once you’re addicted to jotting down anything and everything with minimal effort, you’ll want to find an equivalent app to carry around in your pocket. Notebooks, a $6 app from Alfons Schmid, isn’t a perfect mobile counterpart. But it’s close.
Notebooks lets you create any number of notes, within any number of folders—which it calls notebooks. You can type notes in portrait or landscape mode (hooray for widescreen typing!), and the app even offers a rudimentary cut/copy/paste interface.
Some elements of the Notebooks interface seem a bit unusual, but they work: Pinching and squeezing adjusts the font size of your note, instead of the more-traditional zooming. When you make the page-turning swipe gesture to get to the next page of a note, the new page fades into view. It’s not a jarring difference from the standard “slide” into view (like when paging through photos), but it’s noticeable. Most notably, the app features several instances of multi-function buttons: A tap on the Plus icon (+) opens a new note; a tap-and-hold creates a new notebook instead.
Notebooks offers wireless Bonjour-based two-way syncing, though it requires you to first install the open-source software SyncDocs. You can sync a variety of file types—html, PDFs, Web archives—but only plain text files are editable.
With copious in-app help available to get you started, and a uniquely-crafted, fully usable interface, Notebooks works well when you’re on the move and need to jot down those notes-to-self you can’t afford to forget.
Notebooks is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.1 software update.
[Lex Friedman mostly jots down ideas to blog about, and then does so at his blog.]
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