Notebooks – Write and Organize

Notebooks – Write and Organize

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12.5

July 31, 2024

- Improved "Combined Markdown" documents reliably detect and apply external changes, use syntax highlighting while editing, and more. - Formatted documents more consistently handle the "first line as heading" setting, correctly update toolbar buttons when toggling list styles. - Default Theme correctly aligns indented ordered lists and uses the correct font size for numbers. - Insert location now better extracts GPS coordinates from copied data. - Storage space alert: receive a warning when free storage space gets tight. - Info section makes sure that the inline calendar is fully visible on all devices when changing an item's creation date.

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12.4.2

May 25, 2024

- Hyphenation in formatted documents adjusts to the document's language. - Umlauts in a Table of Contents are now correctly escaped, ensuring that links work properly. - The list of a document's anchors in autocomplete suggestions appears in the same order as they do in the document (don't sort by alphabet). - The shortcut for strikethrough is now `shift-alt-cmd--` (to match the macOS version). - Use `cmd-K` to insert a Markdown link or `[]()`. - A book's action menu (•••) now allows bulk assignment of Contexts again. - When converting multiple documents to PDF, reliably use the given title. - Notebooks more carefully cleans up autosave versions of your documents. - The + menu offers the option *Add to Inbox* in all books, so you can add a new document to the Inbox no matter where you are in Notebooks. - "Vollkorn" is a new custom font. As always, you can find the complete list of changes at www.notebooksapp.com.

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12.4.1

April 2, 2024

This update addresses a text selection issue in formatted documents (double tap) on iPhones with iOS 17.4.

12.4

March 12, 2024

This update adds extended functionality for auto-completion of links, introduces new Markdown syntax for highlighting text, allows you to add the current location from your Apple Watch, improves iCloud sync, and includes many more enhancements and corrections. - Suggestions for Wiki Links now search across all documents and books and can include headings and anchors. - New Markdown syntax ==marked text== for highlighting text. - Open tasks with due date show a time interval like "10 days" or "21 days ago" in addition to the exact due date. - New option to "Scan and Extract" contexts from documents which were created outside of Notebooks. - Option to delete or exclude contexts in bulk. - Add current location/position from your Apple Watch. - When adding the "Current Location", Notebooks now adds a timestamp in addition to address and map preview. - New extra keyboard key options for text transformations. - When opening a document from a smart book, its + menu offers a new option "Add to Inbox". - Add support for .avif files. - Improved iCloud sync. - Pasting text where a colon follows the first word is no longer treated as URL (iOS 17). - More refinements and tweaks. All the details are available in a dedicated article on our website.

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12.3.3

December 12, 2023

This update improves the behavior of checklists in formatted documents, contains improvements for document styles, and brings a couple more refinements.

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12.3.2

November 20, 2023

This update reliably installs a set of "Getting Started" documents when you open Notebooks for the first time, on iOS 17 especially. It also contains a few smaller corrections and improvements.

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12.3.1

November 6, 2023

• Resolve an issue with the Trash might be emptied immediately independent of your settings (iOS 17, iCloud). • Improved conflict handling when synchronizing documents with iCloud. • Reliably display email attachments. • Many more improvements and corrections. More details about this update are available in the version history section of our website.

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12.3

October 13, 2023

- New Widgets, configurable to show Due Tasks, Favorites and Inbox. - Improved "Insert Location" options. - New dialog for selecting photos from album. - New user interface for choosing text and background colors. - Using menus throughout, including a title menu for books and documents to summarize the most important actions. - Shortcuts to toggle list style in plain text and Markdown. - Notebooks 12.3 requires iOS 14 or above. - Many further improvements and fixes. For all the details, please refer to our website.

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12.2.1

June 7, 2023

- The smart book Contexts correctly displays the sort order selector. - Deleting a context from the list no longer clears the list of Favorites. - The Default Theme no longer produces an empty page when printing a document starting with *Title* (H1) on iOS 16.5. - Correctly adjust the layout when using Notebooks on iPhone Pro Max in landscape orientation. - Address a potential issue when editing formatted documents.

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12.2

May 31, 2023

- The new font selector provides access to your own custom fonts, and you can set Notebooks to use the iOS system font. - A new option turns headings into clickable links in rendered Markdown, which allows you to easily copy the link to any heading. - Forward delete blank space quickly removes spaces, tabs and newlines up to the next character or to the end of the text. - Improvements for automatically inserted closing characters, so they no longer interfere with nested LaTeX commands. - Refined Document Themes and much more. For all the details, please visit our website.

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Notebooks In-App Purchases History

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Description of Notebooks

Notebooks is a comprehensive writing app with a powerful text and Markdown editor, which you can use as personal Wiki, Zettelkasten, file and document organizer, task manager, PDF/eBook creator and much more—all in one place. You can seamlessly transform quick notes into actionable tasks, combine text fragments into chapters of a book, organize research material, and keep business documents separate from personal diaries without ever switching apps. Stay focused and unleash your creativity with Notebooks’ versatile and intuitive features. - You'll quickly come to appreciate this unique combination of features. • Notebooks stores all your documents as regular files in standard formats. You are always in control of your documents, never need to worry about how to export them, and they remain compatible across devices and over time. • Create formatted documents with styles, attachments, tables or checklists, and add a table of contents if you like. Choose between a variation of ready made document styles, or create your own, if you want. • Write your documents in plain text and allow Notebooks to automatically handle lists, highlight and center the current line on screen, automatically insert closing characters for (, {, [, " and more. - Plain text is a universal format which can be used on any device without any specific software. • Use Markdown to create formatted documents from plain text. Notebooks supports *MultiMarkdown* and its own flavor of *Discount*. – Click any word in a formatted Markdown text and start writing at that position. You can even create checklists (- [ ]) and tick them off in formatted view. Syntax highlighting and a set of dedicated extra keyboard keys make Markdown editing easy. • Use your Apple Pencil to sketch ideas or annotate images and PDF documents. • Use Notebooks' advanced editing capabilities to work on documents which are stored in other apps. • Compile selected documents or the contents of whole books into a single document, an eBook or a PDF document. • Link between documents in Notebooks. In Markdown you can even use Wiki style links ([[ ]]). When clicking a link to a document which does not yet exist, Notebooks suggests to create it. And when you move or rename documents, Notebooks makes sure the links remain intact. • Create as many books as you need to structure your projects and details. Nest books as deep as you like, there is no limit in Notebooks. If you ever loose track, Notebooks' full text search helps you quickly turn up even the most hidden document. • Turn books into task lists to display document as tasks which can be ticked off. Assign due dates and alerts, and divide projects into nested sub projects, which makes them easier to handle. • For simple lists you can use checklists in formatted documents and Markdown. • Assign Context tags to books and documents to create shortcuts that are accessible for a smart book at Notebooks' top level. – Notebooks can even extract context tags from the contents of documents as you create them. • Import all documents and files you want to keep close at hand, no matter whether PDF, email, web pages, MS Office or iWorks, photos, videos, music and more. • Scan documents and extract text using OCR (iOS 13) • Sync files between iPads, iPhones, Mac or PC. With all these features, Notebooks may quickly become your go-to repository for everything you want to keep close at hand. User Comments: “Notebooks is a wonderful App, which is so much better than the dozen other note apps I tried. It is sophisticated, in an unassuming way, so that you find yourself greatly rewarded and being productive without sacrificing time/effort to the App. I cannot tell you how much productivity I have gained. I am having a huge amount of fun, I use it constantly, more than the phone on my iPhone in fact." “You are GTD in every way that makes it efficient and makes me efficient.”
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Notebooks: FAQ

Is Notebooks compatible with iPad devices?

Yes, Notebooks can support iPad devices.

Who created Notebooks?

The creator of Notebooks is Alfons Schmid.

What should be the minimum iOS version for Notebooks?

Currently, Notebooks supports iOS 14.0 or later.

How do users rate Notebooks?

Users are raving about Notebooks, which has an exceptional rating of 4.8 out of 5.

What is the category of the Notebooks app?

Notebooks Relates To The Productivity App Genre.

Which version of the Notebooks app is the latest one?

The newest version of Notebooks is 12.5.

What date did the latest update for Notebooks come out?

Notebooks updated its app on September 29, 2024.

What date did Notebooks come out?

The release date of the app was February 5, 2023.

What is the recommended age for the Notebooks app?

This app is rated for ages 4 and up, and contains only family-friendly content.

What languages are available on Notebooks?

The following list of languages is supported by the Notebooks app: English, French, German and 1 more.

Is Notebooks featured among Apple Arcade's game offerings?

Sorry, Notebooks is not part of Apple Arcade.

Does Notebooks contain in-app purchases?

Certainly! Notebooks contains in-app purchases for users.

Does Notebooks provide support for Apple Vision Pro?

No, Notebooks does not provide support for Apple Vision Pro.

Does Notebooks display any ads?

No, Notebooks does not display any ads.

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  • Have used daily for years

    I’ve been using Notebooks for years. It is the perfect app for taking a variety of different kinds of notes and maintaining documents. It is a solid, bug-free app with Dropbox support (important for me for backups), most importantly with no required subscription! I keep a camping todo list, lists of movies and tv shows I want to see, gift ideas, and many categories of ideas that pop into my head… I get a good idea, I pop out notebooks and write the idea in a short note in one of the nested folders for whatever the category is that I want to remember something. I don’t do a ton of app reviews but my phone just asked for one, and this is one of the few apps I use where I feel a good review is actually “owed” to the developer for such a quality product that I use daily for years ;) I opened this review request in the middle of writing a note, so I better get back to it before I forget what I wanted to record and remember.
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  • Great app!

    I used this on and off for a year or so but it’s now become my go to app for everything. There was a little learning curve at the start but overall this does way more than any other notebook app I’ve ever used and is incredibly fast and efficient at handling a large amount of notes and file types. I really enjoy the WiFi sync option since I didn’t want to pay for iCloud storage, and some features that I’ve never seen in other places like the ability to easily crate an an ebook have come in handy.

    The one issue I had with a larger file I got a prompt response from the developer that helped me resolve the issue. Looking forward to using it for years to come and seeing what new features will be added !
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  • Notebooks for Mac Sticker Shock—Even Worse, Lost Documents Upon iPhone Upgrade

    Thinking to expand my use of Notebooks 11 for iPhone as a writing tool (and to facilitate moving notes from my phone to my laptop—which I still struggle with getting to work reliably), I looked into buying the Notebooks 2 for mac. Ouch! What’s wanted is nearly US$40, with NO apparent discount for already have purchased the application and module for iPhone. Frankly, I was expecting a price of about half that. I’m not exactly “rolling in it” and have to manage my resources carefully (e.g. refurbished mid-2012 MacBook Pro, refurbished iPhone 7). I think I will have to wait to buy the mac version for full integration.

    Even worse, when I upgraded my phone, documents I had stored on my old phone within Notebooks didn’t move over to the new.

    There’s probably a way I can drill down and cause this to happen (good thing I saved the old phone), and because the documents are important original written work, I will have to do this. The thing is: I shouldn’t have to. Documents should move over like everything else does during a phone upgrade.

    Fail.
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    Developer Response

    Notebooks' documents do move "like everything else", but if you have set Notebooks to store its documents in iCloud, things are a little different. I know nothing about your setup, so I don't know if this applies to you, but anyway: iOS redownloads the contents of your iCloud Drive, it does not restore it from a backup, so this may take a while. Moreover, iCloud Drive may be unavailable immediately after an iOS upgrade, and when you launch Notebooks in this state, it will switch to the local storage location. You might want to take a look at Notebooks' settings > locations and verify that Notebooks is set to use the storage location you want, and this might bring back your documents in one swoop.