Daniel Hruska You know the thing - what you don't write down, you forget. Now I don't mean reminders or calendar events so much as notes, ideas, thoughts, inspirations - I'll leave the naming up to you. I currently work in a position where new ideas are the benchmark for my future work and also part of our work team. And new ideas, however great they may be (or not), are extremely fleeting. One moment you have nothing but a given thought in your head, an hour later you're scratching your ear, which is actually me... and it sucks.
Fortunately, we live in an age where we can pull out our iPhone and write down everything we need to take notes. Let iCloud work for a few seconds, and you can continue to edit the same note on your iPad, Mac, or web browser. However, for some, the basic Notes application is not enough and would like to use an alternative with extended functionality. She is like that once Write, which is available for both Apple's operating systems, i.e. OS X and iOS. This review will focus on the first mentioned.
First, I'd like to mention syncing notes. This can now be done by default via iCloud, and it is probably sufficient for most users (including me). For those who prefer to use other storage, Write also offers synchronization via Box.net, Dropbox or Google Drive. It is not a problem at all to have all four mentioned services connected at once - the new note is created in the storage currently marked in the main menu.
All the notes are neatly stacked on top of each other, with each one showing its title (I'll come back to that later), the first few words, the word count, and the time since it was last edited. You can use the search box above the list of notes if you need to get to the information you need right away and you don't know exactly where it is. Write also offers the ability to create folders to organize your notes. Personally, I am a supporter of tags for notes, which fortunately the creators of the application did not forget.
And now to the "noting" itself. What bothers me a little (or more) is the need to enter the name of the note. If you don't enter a name, Write will automatically fill in something like 2-9-2014 19.23.33pm. I definitely don't like this because the developers promise a "distraction-free" app. On the one hand, I understand that many users will certainly appreciate the note=file equation, but I can't find a taste for this solution. Actually, most of the time I don't even know how to describe the note. It's simply a jumble of my thoughts to which I'd rather assign multiple tags than a single name. My suggestion: let Write continue to allow file renaming, but in a more selfless and optional way.
Writing in Write itself is enjoyable. In addition, if you open the note in a new separate window, it's even better. You can write in plain text or use Markdown, which is a simple syntax for formatting headings, typeface, numbering, bullet points, etc. While typing, you can switch to preview mode, where you can see already formatted text. As I mentioned in the previous paragraphs, a note can be pasted with any number of tags or marked as a favorite. If you just need to note something down quickly without the need to save, Write can do this too. The menu bar contains the application icon (can be turned off), in which the Skratch Pad function is hidden. Text saved here will remain until you delete it.
In addition to the classic white appearance, the application can switch to night mode, which is more gentle on the eyes. For CSS-savvy users, it is possible to change the appearance of these two themes in the application settings. The overall design of Write is derived from the upcoming version of OS X Yosemite and it can be said that it belongs to the successful ones. You can also set the font, font size, the size of the spaces between the lines or, for example, the automatic pairing of brackets and other smaller options.
The entire application could be much better if the developers properly tested its use cases. In other words, Write contains certain shortcomings. What are we talking about? There is no way to hide the main menu. While creating a new note, immediately after creating another note, the blank note will disappear and a "Create Note" screen will appear instead. When you click the share button, a popup menu pops up with a menu (which is fine), but when you click the button again, instead of disappearing, the menu pops up again, which is more than annoying. Details about the note (number of characters, words, sentences, etc.) are displayed in the popup menu after moving the cursor over the number of words indicator in the lower right corner of the application. Drive past this point three times in a row and you won't like it. Of course, this menu should respond to a click, not a swipe.
Despite these shortcomings, Write is a fairly successful notebook that has a lot to offer. If the developers remove the aforementioned negatives (I intend to send them feedback soon), I could recommend the app to everyone with a clear conscience. At the moment I would only do it if it wouldn't cost nine euros without one cent. No, it's not much in the end, but at this price I'd expect less flaws. If you can live with them, I can recommend Write even now.
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For some time I have been looking for a notebook that visually looks like Write, but which does not force me to create an account somewhere with an email address and which can mainly turn OFF synchronization with anything, i.e. which will be permanently and always OFFLINE. Thanks for the tips :-)
This is what Write can do. Admittedly, I didn't try this during testing, which is why it's missing from the article. All you have to do is create a folder on your Mac in which the notes will be saved and then add it to the library in the application. Of course, more of those components can be added.
Thanks for the reply. Just a more detailed question (considering the price) - isn't it necessary to register an e-mail account somewhere just to be able to start using the application?
No no, nothing like that. At first, a dialog will pop up asking if you want to use iCloud, Dropbox, or your Mac.
I would like to ask, I am looking for a similar App, I use it http://happenapps.com/#quiver but the latter has the disadvantage that it is only for OSX, there is no iOS App. My question is does Write have sophisticated searches. I use the application as additional memory for my brain http://www.miroslavbucek.cz/pridavna-pamet-pro-muj-mozek and the main thing is the search. Can the application search in all notes, not only in headings, but also contextually in the text? And if it finds notes that contain a given word, can it find multiple occurrences of that word in one note? as I wrote on my blog:
2. perfect search - both contextual through all files and at the same time search in one file with the function of finding another (it doesn't seem like it, but it was the main problem of all applications except the winner)
Thanks for the answer, or a screenshot of how the search works.
Write searches notes in full text, for searching in a specific note the system search in the modal window is used. The developers could work on this.
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Thanks for the screen, that's a bit of a problem, I'm hesitant to buy. Will it at least highlight all the results in the document?
So I bought the iOS App for my phone to test and sure enough it didn't. Overpaid non-standard control, txt ending is displayed for files, also in the name, I don't want it.
iOS is overpaid, I wrote about the Mac version.
The Mac version looks a bit better, but I'll be using both. I found it now http://simplenote.com which is a brilliant simple App, but it has one but :-( It can't format, neither title, nor bold text. That's a big shame, if it could format and color the source code on top of that, there would be nothing to deal with. Application like for Mac, so iOS are beautiful, clean.