Here are five tips on how to make the most of Apple Notes, whether you're using the note-taking app on an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac. The future of Apple in the enterprise: 3 factors to watch Watch Now. Whether your note-taking style demands minimal design and slick gesture-based functions, or advanced organization and cataloging of various media, chances are there's a notes app that's right for you. Here are 10 of the best to consider, whether you're using a Windows or Mac computer, an Android device, iOS, Chrome OS, or another operating system.
Stuff We Made
Every file has a default app associated with it: depending on how your Mac is setup, clicking a word processing document might launch Pages or TextEdit, and clicking an image might launch Preview or Photos. You can change the default app that’s used for all files of a specific type, across an entire user account, using the following steps. To pick a custom email client, go to Mail Preferences, select Default Mail Reader and click on the app in the drop-down menu. Setapp apps that replace Mac’s defaults Change default application, replacing them with more cutting-edge alternatives and see how your casual Mac environment evolves into an incredible space for productive work.
These are a few of the non-blog things that we are working on, and which fit our vision of knowledge work and the Zettelkasten Method:
- The Archive, a macOS note-taking app for heroic authors and prolific writers
- Zettelkasten Live, our ongoing video blog
- The German Zettelkasten Method book, written by Sascha
- TableFlip (Mac), a Markdown table editor by Christian
- Word Counter (Mac) to track your productivity by Christian
Zettelkasten-Compatible Note Archive Software
Here you find a list of tested tools to implement your own Zettelkasten knowledge management system. If you’d like to share your experience, send in an app usage report!
ConnectedText
- USD39.95
- Windows only
Review:
Got a Windows PC and want to write a review? Get in touch!
Using the app
- Long Term Usage review of ConnectedText — Paul J. Miller
- ConnectedText Tutorials for Reading Notes & Qualitative Analysis — Dr Andus
- ConnectedText does the work for you (or a lot of it anyway) — Stephen Zeoli
- Some Idiosyncratic Reflections on Note-Taking in General and ConnectedText in Particular — Manfred Kuehn
DEVONthink
- USD49.95–149.95
- Mac only
Using the app
- Marko Wenzel’s Review: DEVONthink as a Zettelkasten Note Archive
- Luhmann’s Zettelkasten with DEVONthink — Daniel Wessel
- DEVONthink: Getting Started — Christopher Mayo
- DEVONthink Note ExportTag to Hashtag Converter
- DEVONthink and nvALT Integration in our forums
nvALT
- open source
- freeware
- Mac only
Using the app
- Christian’s Review: Using nvALT as a Zettel Note Archive
- Getting Things Done with Semantic Notes — Tyler Reinhard (see web archive)
- DEVONthink and nvALT Integration in our forums
The Archive
- USD 19,99
- Mac only
Using the app
- Using The Archive for entomological database by Chris Johnson
- macosxguru’s review: The Archive Adds Zettelkästen to the Note-Taking Arsenal
SlipBox
- freeware
- Mac only
Using the app
- Christian’s Review: SlipBox (Mac) Note Archive Review
Sublime Text
- USD 80
- Mac/Windows/Linux
Review:
Want to write a review? Get in touch!
Using the app
- Sublime 3 Zettelkasten Plugin – Rene
- Sublime Text – the better nvALT for Zettelkasten workers? – Christoph Johnson
Trello
- freemium
- web based
- all platforms
Using the app
- Nick’s Review:Using Trello as a Zettel Note Archive
Zkn³
- open source
- freeware
- Java based
- all platforms
Review:
Want to write a review? Get in touch!
Using the app
- Switching from Zkn³ to a Plain Text Approach – Erik Pfeiffer
You can contribute to this collection:
- Write an app review which adheres to the review baseline, or
- write a usage report and how you manage to use an app as a Zettelkasten note archive. This may be a totally new and different application.
Just send Christian an email with details! We will happily link to your blog if you let us know. And if you don’t have a website to publish to, we’ll host your article on our page if you want.
You know how when you double-click a PNG file it opens in Preview? What if you want it to open in Photoshop by default instead? This guide shows you how to to just that – change the default App that’s used when you open a file.
Some common “I’d rather use this App when I open this kind of file” scenarios are:
Best Notetaking Apps 2020
The process to switch default Apps is super-fast and easy to do, and easy to change again later any time you want.
Notetaking Default App Mac Os
![Notetaking Default App Mac Notetaking Default App Mac](/uploads/1/3/4/2/134209297/668874628.jpg)
Notetaking Default App Mac Download
- For the sake of this guide we’re going to switch .M3U files (commonly used as playlists) from opening in iTunes to the media player VLC. That doesn’t mean you need to do the same, this process is the identical no matter what type of file you’re dealing with.Locate a file of the type you want to switch. Right-click the file (or hold down the control button on your keyboard and then click on the file) and select Get Info from the context menu.
- A window will appear with all kinds of info about that file. Locate the Open with: section and expand it (if necessary) by clicking the small ‘triangle’ icon. Click the ‘pull-down’ menu to open it.
- If the App you want to open this type of file with from now on is listed, select it. Congrats, you also get to skip down to step #7. If the App you want to open this file with is not listed – don’t worry, just click the Other… item from the menu.
- A pop-up window will appear allowing you to pick the program you want to open this type of file with. Find the App by first selecting Applications and then scroll through the list. When you find the App, select it by clicking on it once. Now skip down to step #6. If the App you want to use to open the file with is ‘greyed out’ and you can’t select it – no problem.
- Click the Enable: menu and select All Applications. Now the App you want to select will not be greyed out.
- Make sure that the Always Open With box is checked, and then click the Add
button. - Almost done! Click the Change All… button.
- You’ll be prompted for confirmation – click Continue.
- Now just make sure that the App you want to use is the one listed as the (default) in the Open with: section.
- Done! Repeat these steps for other file type associations you want to make.