Notenik - A Well Designed Plain Text Notes Plus App

Anyone looking for a well-designed notes app that's free and open source, native to the Mac platform and based on plain text files would be well served by checking out Notenik by independent developer Herb Bowie.. Within Notenik you can create numerous types of collections of notes including but not limited to:

• Basic Notes
• Links
• To-dos
• Sequenced list
• Zettlekasten
• Blog
• Commonplace Book (with or w/out lookups)
• Outline
• Web Book
• Website
• Contacts
• Travel Planner
• Code snippets

Each collection of notes lives in a separate folder. The default location for the notes is iCloud but you can store then anywhere you want. You can save them as txt or Markdown files. Even though there isn't a native iOS app, you can use iOS text editors like Taio, iAWriter or 1Writer to access and edit your notes on that platform.

Each copy of Notenik comes with a complete knowledge base in Notenik format to help you use the application. The knowledge base is updated when new features are added and it is available offline.

Like other modern plain text notes apps, Notenik supports tags and other metadata. You can use double bracket wikilinks to connect your notes. For blind and visually impaired users, Notenik is fully voice over compatible.

This is an app that you need to download and experiment with to fully understand its power when it comes to things like creating websites and databases and all the options you have to incorporate personal productivity options into your note taking. The developer is very responsive and publishes a constant stream of new and improved features as well as squashing any bugs. Because Notenik is available from the App Store, it is easy to keep it updated.