BOOSTNOTE DOCUMENTATION FULL

Last year Amy chose Notability, which looks far more flexible for those who want to sketch and annotate, but that wasn’t really what I was looking for.įortunately, a randomly-inspired Google search (something like, scrivener but for markdown notes) brought me to Boostnote, which I’ve been experimenting with happily for about a week now. It does not prevent me using Markdown syntax, but it doesn’t exactly support Markdown either. It allows me to take fast, text-only notes and access them from any of my devices. For years I’ve used Notational Velocity, which syncs with Simplenote, and it’s fine.

As a mac user, OneNote just isn’t on my radar.

BOOSTNOTE DOCUMENTATION FULL

I’ve always found Evernote too full featured-because it seeks to let users save anything, I found the resulting mishmash hard to navigate. One advantage of Markdown is its portability: moving a project from one Markdown-aware application to another is a simple cut and paste operation, with none of the formatting challenges that can come when moving between rich text environments.īecause of that, I’ve been on the lookout for awhile for a new note-taking application for use in less formal situations, for jotting down ideas during talks, committee work, and so forth. For those unfamiliar, Markdown is a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document-headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.-using simple typographic characters. Many of my recent posts have focused on how I’ve increasingly turned to Markdown for my writing, syllabus design, project and class websites, and for teaching literate programming.

Boostnote documentation