Text Edit is definitely an excellent Mac app for quickly capturing thoughts and ideas. It comes integrated with the OS X on your Mac and provides some pretty decent features most important of which is iCloud syncing. However, if you are willing to take your Mac note taking experience to the next level and try out some more advanced apps, the list below has you covered. This is a collection of some of the most popular apps for taking notes on Mac. The apps come with a set of useful features from annotating to integrating multimedia materials in your notes. Check them out and see what works for you.
1- Simple Note
‘The Simplenote experience is all about speed and efficiency. Open it, write some thoughts, and you're done. As your collection of notes grows, you can search them instantly and keep them organized with tags and pins. You can also share notes and publish them for other people.’
2- Write
‘Write is a modern note taking app with a stunning interface. You might be a writer, student, blogger or just a simple person who likes to keep things in order and make life productive, you'll love Write! No matter where you store your notes, Write will organise and present them beautifully.’
3- Outline
‘Outline is an intuitive note-taking application for OS X with convenient structure resembling real paper books: notebooks, sections, groups of sections and pages help to keep order in notes, regardless of their complexity. Outline for Mac is perfect for students, teachers, physicians, lawyers, executives and everyone who's daily life involves extensive note-taking of any kind.’
4- Letterspace (update: no longer working)
‘Think about all of the notes you have to take on a daily basis. It's something we all do. Good note taking is based on being able to get your thoughts and ideas on the page quickly and efficiently. Letterspace doesn't distract you. It provides a noise free space to jot things down. So simple, so powerful.’
5- Microsoft OneNote
‘Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas with OneNote, your very own digital notebook. With OneNote you can seize that moment of inspiration, plan that big event, or track that list of errands that are too important to forget. Whether you're at home, in the office, or on the go, your notes are available to you on all your devices.’
6- Evernote
‘Evernote for {Mac} is the modern workspace that syncs between all of your devices. Work everywhere and stay productive:
• Write notes, checklists, and research
• Organize web articles, docs, and photos
• Discuss your work with others, right within the app
• Present ideas without creating a slide deck’
7- App for Google Keep
‘With Google Keep you can:
- Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos
- Add reminders to important notes and be reminded through Google Now
- Colour-code your notes to help find them later
- Archive things you no longer need
- Turn a note into a checklist by adding checkboxes
- Use your notes from anywhere - they are safely stored in the cloud and available on the web at http://keep.google.com'
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