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Seems like the only difference between Notable and Boostnote is that Notable is a direct Evernote clone, specifically the tags feature. Any other reason to give this a shot over Boostnote?
I found myself Evernote refugee a couple of months ago and found Boostnote, which has done the job for me. Seems like the only difference between Notable and Boostnote is that Notable is a direct Evernote clone, specifically the tags feature. Any other reason to give this a shot over Boostnote?
IMHO Notable is better than Boostnote for the following main reasons:
- It supports attachments, sooner or later you are going to need to add an image or pdf to a note. The only way of doing that with Boostnote is linking to the absolute-path of that file, which is not portable nor ergonomic.
- Notes are stored as plain Markdown files, you can also edit them with your editor of choice. For instance I can use the fancy Markdown plugins I have in my editor easily.
- Multi-note editing is fully supported, from starring/tagging multiple notes at once to performing a regex search & replace across your notes. Boostnote has very limited multi-editing capabilities, and while you could technically perform a search & replace with Boostnote's notes too they are stored in .cson, which complicates things.
- Boostnote is too ugly for me. This may not matter for you but it matters for me.
- Boostnote can't import Evernote's .enex files. Notable can and it preserves both tags and attachments.
- Boostnote isn't keyboard friendly. I don't like the dual pane editor, but if I disable it there's no (documented?) shortcut for switching between editing and preview mode.
I am using this now! Clean!
I found myself Evernote refugee a couple of months ago and found Boostnote, which has done the job for me. Seems like the only difference between Notable and Boostnote is that Notable is a direct Evernote clone, specifically the tags feature. Any other reason to give this a shot over Boostnote?
Notable is most definitely not an Evernote clone, which is what I'm coming from as well. I'm comparing Notable with Boostnote in the comparison table [1] in the readme, you might want to give that a look. IMHO Notable is better than Boostnote for the following main reasons: - It supports attachments, sooner or later you are going to need to add an image or pdf to a note. The only way of doing that with Boostnote is l…
The biggest 2 things you hit on is:
1) Boostnote is ugly.
It's not stylish, but I do like how it's simple and direct.
I forgot how painful adding an image was in Boostnote.
Thanks!
Looks good. Have been using Typora. Any major differences other than supporting attachments?
- Notable has better notes organization thanks to indefinitely nestable tags. I think one organizes notes in Typora by organizing the directory structure? That's fine but limiting as one can't really put a note into 2 folders at the same time (maybe Typora supports symlinks though, I'm not sure).
- Notable comes with multi-note editing, which is cool for tagging/pinning/starring multiple notes at once.
- Typora is way more customizable.
- Typora feels more native to me and starts up faster.
Funny, I was just looking for something like this. I specifically wanted a note taking app where I could use my text editor and all its power but see the notes rendered close to real time. Great timing! Will give it a look.