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App for taking notes?

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Evangelion

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Quite often I run in to a situation where I need to type something dowqn quickly. On Linux I use Tomboy for that task, and it works beautifully. Is there anything similar available for OS X? No, Sticky Notes or the like are not an alternative :). I need an app that can store notes, but gets out of my way when I don't need it.
 
joeops57 said:
But that's exactly what sticky notes does....
Type whatever you want onto a note, double click the top and it will minimize. What other functionality are you looking for?
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I need something that will not crowd the desktop or the Dock. Tomboy is just one icon in systray (granted, OS X doesn't really have a systray as such) that lists all the notes I have taken, and I can then select the one I want to see. Sticky Notes and similar are all separate. If I have 4 notes (for example), I have 4 separate items cluttering the UI.
 
Evangelion said:
I need something that will not crowd the desktop or the Dock. Tomboy is just one icon in systray (granted, OS X doesn't really have a systray as such) that lists all the notes I have taken, and I can then select the one I want to see. Sticky Notes and similar are all separate. If I have 4 notes (for example), I have 4 separate items cluttering the UI.
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All Mac applications have a Hide function (Command-H on the keyboard) that reduces all of the app's windows to a single icon in the dock. If you control-click (or right-click, or press-and-hold) on that icon, you will see a list of all windows (sticky notes, in this case) listed by title. Select one from the list, and it will appear on top. Hide them again when you're done.

Sticky notes are "titled" by their first line.

This is a basic feature of the Mac UI, and works for any application.
 
munkle said:
If it's just short notes, you might want to check out Sidenote. Seems to fit all your needs.
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This one seems perfect! I need to check it out once I get back home. Thanks :)!
 
DarkNetworks said:
is this universal binary? looks like it supports PPC only...:(
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Looks like it's still only PPC but of course it will run under Rosseta.

It really is a nice little app, does what it does very well without resorting to being bloatware. To those saying "Stickies", Sidenote is pretty much stickies with a few added features to make it that much more useful :)
 
crees! said:
There's also Stickies in Dashboard :eek:
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I was actually talking of the Dashboard-stickies in my original post. I only now noticed that tjere are stickies in Mac OS "proper" as well. Have to take a look at them as well.
 
crees! said:
So Stickies and/or Textedit isn't enough to just take notes?
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Well, no. I just checked the stickies (those outside Dashboard). I dislike the fact that the stickies stay in the Dock all the time. It's yet another con to clutter the Dock. Textedit isn't really suitable either, since it's a separate app. Sidenote seems nice because you can have it running all the time, yet it's hidden. But you can access it with a quick flick of a wrist :).
 
I just use Textedit by saving a plain text file into one of my documents folders and then I drop this into the Finder sidebar.

Now when I need to take a note, I just click the icon, write what I need, save and close. I'd use rtf if I needed images and things but plain text works faster.
 
i'm pretty sure word can do something like this

my sister uses word in her college classes to take notes & record the lecture

i'm not sure the details though
(she's on a mac as well)
 
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