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I've recommended this on HN before. xPad is woefully lacking in some ways (e.g you can't even search your notes) but it gets some important basics very right,
by GHFigs 18y ago
I've recommended this on HN before. xPad is woefully lacking in some ways (e.g you can't even search your notes) but it gets some important basics very right, and as a result, find myself unable to part with it. To quote myself:
"The simple magic for me is that you can just Cmd-N and start typing, and then when you're done, Cmd-R to rename/title it. No saving, obviously, but also no shift-tab or clicking in a title field. There's also a services menu shortcut for clippings: Cmd-Shift-X.
Contrast with Yojimbo (and many others), where a new note defaults to the title field. You have to either press enter twice or tab three times just to get the cursor to the note field. Even the "Quick Input" panel asks you for a title and tags first."
Whether it is the best for you depends heavily on how you take notes, but if all you want is a simple frictionless notebook with RTFD pages, it's worth looking at.
- grinich 18y agoWhen I said "best" this was what I meant. For me, it's the best blend of simplicity and functionality, essentially just being a text editor with a drawer organizer. In nearly all cases, my notes only require basic formatting and are short enough than they don't require searching. For other uses, such as taking clippings, composing blogs posts, and keeping a journal, I'd wholeheartedly reccomend a more powerful app like those suggested in the comments, especially VoodooPad. But now the title has been changed, hiding my blunder of a headline. Any ideas on how this happened?