About Notebooks
Notebooks is a versatile writing and organization tool designed to help you capture ideas, create documents, and manage projects. With support for plain text, Markdown, and formatted documents, it adapts to your writing style while keeping everything structured and accessible. Organize content in nested books, turn documents into tasks, and use powerful search and navigation to find what you need. Your work stays private, stored in standard formats, and available across devices without subscriptions.
FAQ
Cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Boxcryptor, and OneDrive appear as folders but do not allow Notebooks to access the contents of their folders. This is necessary for features like search, tasks management, and link management in Notebooks.
Ensure all of Notebooks' documents are fully downloaded and available locally. On iPhone or iPad, open the Files app, navigate to iCloud Drive, locate the Notebooks folder, tap and hold the folder, and select Download Now. On Mac, open a new Finder window, navigate to iCloud Drive, locate the Notebooks folder, right-click the folder, and select Download Now.
Yes, according to Apple's specifications, data stored on iCloud Drive are end-to-end encrypted when transferred across trusted devices. This includes Notebooks' documents.
Notebooks 8 and Notebooks 10 provide a convenient method for migrating your documents directly on the device without duplicating them. A detailed guide is available on the site. Alternatively, you can set up Notebooks 10 without migrating documents from Notebooks 8 and instead import the documents from your Dropbox or a WebDAV server.
Notebooks 10 does not support the optional PDF Reader anymore. Instead, you can use the PDF annotation tools that are part of iOS 13 or use the 'Open in...' menu to open PDF documents in external apps without duplicating them.
Notebooks uses macOS Spotlight search for performing full text searches and listing items assigned to contexts. If search does not return any results, reindexing macOS Spotlight may help. You can reindex Spotlight for a specific volume by adding the volume to the Privacy list in Spotlight settings, waiting a few seconds, and then removing it again.
You can synchronize documents directly between Notebooks on your Mac and iPad or iPhone using the built-in WebDAV server in Notebooks for Mac. Start the server in Notebooks for Mac, allow incoming traffic, and then connect from Notebooks on your iPad or iPhone using the WebDAV settings.
This message may appear if you are using an app like CleanMyMac with the option to clean Universal Binaries. To resolve this issue, download and install Notebooks from the website again and turn off the option to clean universal binaries in CleanMyMac.
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