Plain Text vs. Notes/writing apps

[leo]

Just leaving this here:

Crazy idea: Using Notebooks 10 (iOS) and 2 (macOS) + GoodNote 5 in Dropbox and have the folder be indexed in DevonThink – Will it work reliably?

Hey, I stumbled upon the app Notebooks a few times already, when browsing the market of note taking apps. It seems that they are just about to release Notebooks 10 for iOS. Their macOS app (now version 2) was also just released in fall of last year. The app has an interesting approach, as it basically stores its data locally in a folder structure, instead of in a database. So every note created will get a new document on the hard disk or inside a cloud-sync destination like Dropbox and will be…

I still haven’t had enough free time to fully dive in, but it seems to work with my test notes.

You’ll have the benefits of a Note app interface (like Apple Notes, Bear etc.), mix it with handwritten notes via GoodNotes (multiple folder levels) or Notability (auto-backup is limited to one folder level) that show up inside of Notebooks and in addition the powerful indexing of DevonThink.