I’m looking for a notes app that can gracefully handle multiple images per note without much management. Currently the built in Notes app seems the best, but I wanted to look for more options just in case.
The use case is as a personal trainer, I write workouts for clients on the whiteboard so that they can see them and we can record weights/reps throughout the workout. I want to keep a record of these photos so I can see where they were in previous sessions and track progress, and I’d like to keep all of the images for a given client in a single note where I can also keep track of other thoughts.
I love Notes’ ability to display the images as “small” which makes the individual note easier to manage, but I’m not the biggest fan of formatting in Notes (markdown would be ideal) or how the folder panes work.
Give Bear a try.
From my experience it does everything that Apple Notes does but in a better and visually pleasing way.
Try Craft - it handles images really well and helps in getting organized. This is the app that helped me stop my journey of hunting for the next great app and get to work. Been 3 years+ now.
Seconding Bear here. Images get a little handle you can drag to resize them on the fly inside the note.
Thank you! I was looking at Bear and wishing it worked because I didn’t realize I could resize images. With the resize ability it is perfect
UpNote does presets for S M L and resizing. It’s lightweight with lots of features. Might be worth a look for your needs.
I’m tossing in a suggestion to look at Growly Notes.
It’s a free program, but is supported and has been around for years. Each notebook can have multiple pages with index tabs for quick reference. Each page is free form, expanding to any size, and can have all the images you want. It’s basically like Microsoft OneNote, and for me it replaced Circus Ponies Notebook.
Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll check them both out! I do love both free and lightweight.
If you don’t want fancy formatting of the images and have them as a small appropriate size already and can take a simple in-line display of them Obsidian works well. Free for personal use. I’m using ti to document screen designs for the AnimalTrakker Farm Desktop app as we iterate what has to go where and it’s working fine. It’s not a good image manipulator or formatter unless you want to spend time to determining which if the various image enhancer plug-ins fit your use cases. For me I decided I didn’t need it and so it works well.