About Notebooks – Write and Organize
Notebooks is a writing app, a text and markdown editor, your personal Wiki and Zettelkasten, a file organizer, task manager, PDF and eBook creator and more. This may sound like a lot, but consider you have a few text...
Notebooks is a writing app, a text and markdown editor, your personal Wiki and Zettelkasten, a file organizer, task manager, PDF and eBook creator and more. This may sound like a lot, but consider you have a few text fragments, randomly created, which you want to combine into a chapter of a book and saved as PDF or eBook; or a quick note sparks off an idea, generates a couple of tasks, each of which requires you to organize further research material; or you have business related documents which need to be separated from private diaries, records and files. – With Notebooks you handle these jobs easily without switching apps, and while remaining focussed and creative.
• 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 that, Notebooks may quickly become your one and only app 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.”
Apr 2, 2024
Version 12.4.1
This update addresses a text selection issue in formatted documents (double tap) on iPhones with iOS 17.4.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Notebooks – Write and Organize since it was posted on our website on 2021-09-05 06:35:09.
The latest version is 12.4.1 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 10:54:56. See below the changes in each version.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.4.1
Updated At: 2024-04-02
Changes: Apr 2, 2024
Version 12.4.1
This update addresses a text selection issue in formatted documents (double tap) on iPhones with iOS 17.4.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.4
Updated At: 2024-03-12
Changes: Mar 12, 2024
Version 12.4
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.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.3.3
Updated At: 2023-12-12
Changes: Dec 12, 2023
Version 12.3.3
This update improves the behavior of checklists in formatted documents, contains improvements for document styles, and brings a couple more refinements.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.3.2
Updated At: 2023-11-20
Changes: Nov 20, 2023
Version 12.3.2
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.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.3.1
Updated At: 2023-11-06
Changes: Nov 6, 2023
Version 12.3.1
• 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.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.3
Updated At: 2023-10-13
Changes: Oct 13, 2023
Version 12.3
- 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.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.2.1
Updated At: 2023-06-07
Changes: Jun 7, 2023
Version 12.2.1
- 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.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.1.2
Updated At: 2023-03-22
Changes: Mar 22, 2023
Version 12.1.2
- New action "Copy Markdown Link" to copy an item's link in Markdown format `[title](url)`.
- "Forward delete to end of sentence" deletes space preceding the cursor, deletes the rest of the sentence but preserves the terminating characters, and positions the cursor after the last character.
- Markdown highlighting ignores sections in fenced code blocks.
- Embedded images no longer use a timestamp as prefix.
- Correctly display images which are embedded as data stream.
- Videos do not autoplay on an iPad.
- URL Scheme "addText" saves text at the defined parent path as expected.
- Restoring multiple documents from the Trash reliably handles all selected items.
- Added Sarabun font for improved Thai legibility.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12.0.1
Updated At: 2022-08-06
Changes: Aug 6, 2022 Version 12.0.1
This update contains bug fixes and corrections.
- Repeatedly tapping the same extra keyboard key inserts the corresponding character once for each tap - as expected.
- Recognize and handle .WebP files as images.
- Address an occasional crash during search - caused by locked PDF documents.
- Correctly display YAML headers in rendered Markdown.
- Avoid hang when opening one of Notebooks' documents from the Files.app.
- Avoid warnings about iCloud reachability when iCloud is not selected as storage location.
- Correctly save and apply custom sort order for Favorites.
- In regular books with custom sort order selected, add new items at the bottom, unless selected otherwise.
- Search from Notebooks' top level skips contents of the hidden book NBResources.
- iPhone: Editing plain text in landscape orientation avoids excessive scrolling when "center current line" is active.
- iPad: Fix a crash when editing the first line of a document (removing last few characters).
- iPad: Avoid slowdown when editing a document in a list with a huge number of documents.
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New in Notebooks 12.0
- Automatic Link Management
- Backlinks
- Favorites
- Pin to Top
- Autocomplete suggestions for adding internal links
- Option to dynamically resolve internal links across all documents
- More flexible default inbox
- Improved Watch App
- New App icon and document icons
- and much, much more.
The full list of changes is available on our website.
Notebooks – Write and Organize version 12
Updated At: 2022-07-26
Changes: Jul 26, 2022 Version 12
- Favorites
- Pin to Top
- Automatic Link Management
- Backlinks
- Autocomplete suggestions for adding internal links
- Option to dynamically resolve internal links across all documents
- More flexible default inbox
- Improved Watch App
- New App icon and document icons
- and much, much more.
Here are the Most Important Changes in More Detail:
- Pinned documents always appear at the top of the list. On an iPad, Notebooks can show the first pinned document when opening a book.
- Mark books and documents as favorite, making them available from a new smart book at Notebooks' top level.
- With automatic link management, Notebooks makes sure that internal links don't break when moving or renaming books and documents. Needs to be activated in settings.
- When using automatic link management, documents also have backlinks, pointing back to referencing documents.
- While adding a link to document, tap the "tab" key for a list of suggestions.
- When trying to find a link's traget, Notebooks can now search all of its documents, not just the contents of the taget book. This is perfect if you use Notebooks as Zettelkasten or as your personal Wiki.
- It is now much easier to set a book as your default inbox, and it also appears as smart book.
- The improved Watch App provides complications and shows Due Tasks, Inbox and Favorites. When displaying documents, Notebooks' Watch app now uses the options for list alignment or Markdown syntax highlighting that you set on your iPhone.
Other Improvements Include:
- Optimizations for iCloud synchronization.
- When using Dropbox sync, Notebooks now displays the number of items that need to be synced.
- To trigger sync with your WebDAV server, just pull down the list of books and documents. (WebDAV needs to be the only active sync option in that case).
- Notebooks now displays formatted versions of Final Draft (fdx) documents.
- There are countless bigger and smaller improvements for Markdown, formatted documents, PDF and more.
The full list of changes is available on our website.
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