EduardMe

NotePlan is also a good alternative if you don't want to setup plugins and your own syncing system, but it has no free options.

Try NotePlan (only Mac and iOS).

- Markdown based and runs on plain-text files.

- I'm the creator and use it every day, all the time.

- Has real folders (you will see them in Finder/Files)

- Hashtags and Mentions

- [[References]]

- Share notes by publishing them (send a link, revokable) or exporting them as RTF or PDF (send a file).

- No Web Editor yet

Link: https://noteplan.co

In Luhmann’s work (creator of the Zettelkasten), Zettelkasten was used in an academic environment. In this post I describe how I translate the academic Zettelkasten to a ‘Product Development’ Zettelkasten.

I build a whole iOS/Mac app around the idea of daily notes and now also backlinking :)

https://noteplan.co

I'm looking into the event creation problem. Restarting should usually help at least temporarily.

Dropbox is an option already, but it's not as stable and has problems.

Do they sell it through the AppStore? Probably not.

Well, I see I can't convince you. I tried one-time payments already and don't like them as developer, nor user - it's just my opinion. Thanks for sharing your arguments, I guess we can agree that we disagree :)

I have to disagree (obviously).

Users are not trapped in with NotePlan. If your are not satisfied with the service, you can cancel, so my incentive is to retain you on the grounds of providing good software. And NotePlan is designed in a future-proof way. Your notes are saved as plain text files, you can open them even with TextEdit.

Besides the full-time development of the app, you also get quick, direct support. Try that with most one-time payment software. I sit down and reply to emails every day for 2-3 hours.

Further, your suggested model is not possible with the AppStore. Updates go through without license checks.

I recommend to switch to CloudKit sync and check if you don't have changed the file extension in the preferences.

A one-time payment is a nice financial boost, but it's not sustainable over time. My plan is not to build an app, make quick money and then forget about it. I'm working on this full-time, every day. It's long term and I need long-term users to grow.

I tried one-time payments with NotePlan 2, it's not a business model that enables you to grow nor plan anything in advance. That's neither good for the developer, nor the user. Except you don't want any updates, no bug fixes, no improvements, no new features.

Nope, its written in Swift, but optimized for Mac and iOS separately with their respective UI libraries.

Thanks! It has been a long way so far!

I thought about it, but one-time payments always have this problem that you need to come up with upgrades to keep the bills paid. And upgrades are in many aspects bad for users and for creators. For upgrades you need to 'save up' features and you need to come up with flashy ones, because bug fixes and improvements are not an incentive to upgrade for many...

1. At the moment it's restricted to NotePlan's folder in your documents folder in "On my iPhone/iPad". This is due to the sync and having different external folders on iOS and Mac. I'm not sure how this should be handled. But I plan something around that.

2. There is no separate preview, but most of the markdown is being rendered, so you don't see it. To be specific: Headings and tasks are rendered properly without markdown characters. But tables are not supported yet.

Thanks!

You can add Google, Exchange and Yahoo to your iCloud calendar accounts. Or use CalDav to have more options. See "Internet Accounts" in your System Preferences.

Thanks! Maybe one day as a web version.

Hi HackerNews

NotePlan 3 is going live today on the App Store (Mac, iPhone, and iPad)

I have created NotePlan to be your task-manager, calendar, and note-taking app in one (Bullet Journal style). All your notes are locally saved as plain text-files and are [[linkable]] (+ backlinks).

Markdown makes the content of your notes future-proof and highly portable. Apple's CloudKit service is used to sync everything across your devices (you don't need to rely on private sync solutions).

NotePlan is a 100% native app written in Swift. This means: a beautiful, clean design, super-fast, and highly integrated into Apple's ecosystem (iOS included). It also syncs with iCloud calendar and reminders.

If you are looking for a native alternative to Obsidian and Roam, which has iOS apps, NotePlan also supports bi-directional linking and is compatible with Obsidian (change the file-extension to .md in NotePlan's preferences) and Roam (when you export your data as Markdown files).

With NotePlan, you can build your favorite productivity workflow:

- Zettelkasten ([back-]linking, folder support, notes)

- GTD (tasks are first-class citizens, create project notes and schedule)

- Bullet Journal (daily notes, re-schedule tasks, undated notes as lists).

Read a quick walkthrough here (with videos): https://noteplan.co/walkthrough

Read more about NotePlan's features here: https://noteplan.co/features

If you have questions, just ask :)

Best,

Eduard

Here I explain how you can use a work journal in a brief video using NotePlan.

Let me know what you think!

Right!

It's important that you have a system to capture things quickly and get them out of your head, so that they don't clog your thought process. The problem? The data is either unstructured or you first need to spend time thinking where exactly to put it so you will find it later.

I found the best way to do this is to keep a daily note or journal where you can first dump all your thoughts, ideas, tasks, etc. quickly without thinking about where to put it. The other game changer was using nested tags. Adding tags is easy, because it doesn't break your workflow, you just keep writing. Example: "- Review landing page copy @followup/James".

NotePlan just introduced new features to help you do exactly that: Nested Tags and a Global Search across all your notes (calendar, non-calendar, tasks, etc.). Nested Tags allow you to create a reference to any thoughts, tasks, notes etc. right away. Additionally you can capture new things in a daily note, so you don't even have to ask yourself where exactly to write them down.

What is NotePlan?

Every day is full of appointments, tasks, and meetings. Managing it all is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. With NotePlan for the Mac and iOS, you can manage your calendar, to-dos, and notes in one place so you can concentrate on getting your work done instead.

Thanks for mentioning. Yeah this seems to be a typo. The "u" is just beside the "i" on the keyboard. The rest of the review wouldn't make much sense otherwise.

We are using iCloud Drive, which is encrypted as per Apple before it is sent to their servers. But we are thinking to implement local encryption as well, if this is something users want.

Limitation in the framework. We are re-writing the iOS version to support this. See https://noteplan.co/assets/videos/new-ios-version.MP4 somewhere at the end of the video its working.

Dropbox is in the plans, but it will remain macOS/iOS.

I was using physical calendar notebooks, such as Moleskin. I also tried productivity apps like as Wunderlist or Evernote. But nothing worked for my workflow. So I made my own (Mac, iPhone, iPad) app called NotePlan (http://noteplan.co).

I have created NotePlan out of the need for a productivity app, which is not just pushing around todos or collecting them in buckets. But which resembles the way many people plan in the “real world”: Using calendars, notebooks and bullet points. If you love, Org-mode, Bullet Journal, GTD or TaskPaper, you will love NotePlan.

Here the most important features:

* One dedicated note for every day in your calendar

* A Calendar gives you an overview of all your notes

* General notes decoupled from the calendar

* Everything saved and synced with iCloud Drive as plain text

* Markdown support with custom flavour for marking tasks

If you need validation, the quick way is to setup some adverts. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Or find a place where you can spread your pitch and link. You should have some kind of validation goal, like email signup or trial download or something.

Product Hunt is a good place or maybe some beta sites like BetaList to get started.

The longer and "cheaper" way is to write your own content, which gets attention. It depends on how connected you are already. Some people have already a huge interested audience.

Ok, this make sense!