Broadly speaking note taking includes creating shopping lists, keeping journals, taking class notes, organizing text and anything else a user wishes and can imagine. The web features many software review articles. There are also many sites specifically for comparing software with each other and one of the bigger categories is those that review and compare… Continue reading OneNote Comparisons
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Taskade: Lists And Notes
Taskade is an online “lists made easy” tool. The interface is a simple themed one, after signing up one can start creating lists right away. The background is set to show random images – the theme option is at the bottom left of the window – but can be changed to a solid colour or… Continue reading Taskade: Lists And Notes
Leaf Simple Notes For Chrome
Leaf: Simple Notes is another small notes or reminder extension for Google Chrome. Installing the extension follows the familiar permissions based method and the extension’s icon is added to the right of the address bar. Click on the icon and the interface is shown. Simply type any text and optionally add relevant details. Notes are… Continue reading Leaf Simple Notes For Chrome
Simple Gmail Notes Chrome Extension
Simple Gmail Notes is a useful Google Chrome extension. It keeps permissions to a minimum and uses the user’s own Google Drive to store all data. For this alone it is a very good choice. Although given the ‘notes’ name it is somewhat awkward to use for storing personal or random notes because one has to… Continue reading Simple Gmail Notes Chrome Extension
DocusTree: Freeware Documents And Notes Organizer
At first look DocusTree (version: 3.2) might look like a notes organizer. The interface and look is of the two pane outliner or organizer where the focus is on writing, jotting down and inserting various media or documents. While this is true of DocusTree it is more geared towards organizing existing documents or websites in… Continue reading DocusTree: Freeware Documents And Notes Organizer
Notes With AnnoPad Google Chrome Extension
AnnoPad (version:1.5.3) or URL Specific Notepad – AnnoPad to mention its full name is a Google Chrome extension that saves notes in a drop down accessible via its icon much the same way as many other extensions. The interface is simple, click on the icon and add a new note. The URL of the current page… Continue reading Notes With AnnoPad Google Chrome Extension
TreeProjects is now free!
TreeProjects is a notes organizer, a very powerful one, that I became a fan of many years ago. It had started life as the free Smereka and grew to a full featured outliner and organizer. I wrote a brief review of it in 2011. It has many features that made and make it complete like… Continue reading TreeProjects is now free!
ZenR Notes: Simple Password Protected Notes
ZenR Notes (version: 0.2) is a recent entry in the note taking category. It presents mostly simple options for taking notes and securing them either individually or with a master password. By default ZenR Notes uses what it calls an immersive theme that uses Windows colours. New notes are added, along with other features using big buttons. The… Continue reading ZenR Notes: Simple Password Protected Notes
Journaley: Simple Journaling
Journaley (version: 2.1) is a simple yet unusual journaling program, it is freeware and hosted on GitHub. The unusual nature of the program is two fold, perhaps. The first is somewhat disturbing, the set up did not provide any prompts (tested on a Windows 10 64-bit computer) until the program shortcut was ready on the desktop, whether… Continue reading Journaley: Simple Journaling
OutWiker: Freeware Outliner
OutWiker (current version: 1.8.1) is a cross platform and freeware outliner or notes organizer. It supports plain text, HTML and wiki style notes with various markups. Start with File—>New (Ctrl+N) and choose one of the aforementioned page types. Either manually or by using the wiki menu or keyboard shortcuts add formatting to your wiki page. The formatting… Continue reading OutWiker: Freeware Outliner