#Backup noteplan software#
#Backup noteplan windows#

Get an authentication token to access Boost Note's APIs through simple HTTP requests. To create your own Markdown editor, you can choose from keymaps such as Vim, more than 150 themes and many other options. Diagrams created with Charts.js and Mermaid can be embedded in documents to increase visibility. This is not just a GitHub-flavored markdown. Boost Note was designed to improve developers productivity by providing the best note taking experience for developers. Thanks again for being a lighthouse for all these products (my wallet does not agree with this sentiment!).Boost Note is a powerful collaborative workspace for developers that works at a light speed. If something dramatic changes in this, I may report back. This is a relatively recent incarnation of my work flow, which will doubtless be tweaked as I discover greater efficiencies or have to address specific issues. I have DevonThink (to which I can link) for big-scale reference when I want to have backup for my actions handy and am starting to get into Keep it (don’t know about links to it yet) for smaller references like URLs or short writings. When I’m working with NP, I block out time for the actions, integrate them with calendar events, and build time blocks into my days. I pull actions from it into NotePlan as I put my days or weeks together. Things has become a master list of actions and projects (collections of actions). At the moment, I have them both integrated into my work flow. It’s a (way) more sophisticated version of what I thought. If that comes along, then I’ll be very happy. But web access to NotePlan data is supposedly in the pipeline. Consequently, I don’t use either Things or NotePlan as much as I could.

#Backup noteplan windows#

Unfortunately for me, I spend my office hours on a Windows PC.

As is likely evident, I prefer NotePlan, though I very much admire Things. I hope I’ve provided some perspective on Things and NotePlan. It is the closest thing you’ll find to a digital bullet journal. NotePlan is a task planner, but more than that. Things is a task management app and has no ambitions to be more than that. It may not really be fair to compare Things to NotePlan. I think there might be a bug that needs exterminating. I have experienced some hurdles trying to add events and reminders directly into the calendar panel. Here is another image of NotePlan at work: I’ve anotated this screen capture of NotePlan 3. The advantage in this scenario goes to NotePlan, I believe, because it is so easy to add wiki links to other undated note pages to flesh out details of meetings, projects and goals. Note that I can create wiki links to pages for upcoming events or goals so I can work on them in depth. This is the same action dashboard in NotePlan. Here is what an action dashboard looks like in each of the two apps: I sometimes find it helpful to put together what I call an action dasboard when I need to get my head back in the game of an area of responsibility I may have neglected. Here’s a little exercise demonstration to show the difference between the two: Things also syncs with Calendar and Reminders, where NotePlan interfaces with your Calendar, but does not sync tasks in the notes to Reminders. You can surround your tasks with this kind of information in NotePlan, but it doesn’t become part of the task itself, as it does with Things. Things also allows you to add meta data to a task: sub-tasks, urgency (deadline), task-specific notes.

NotePlan allows you to embed tasks within notes, while Things allows you to embed notes within tasks. NotePlan is a notes app that handles tasks adeptly. That isn’t to say that they are not different in many ways. If you’re already a fan of Things and find it handles your task management well, you probably don’t also need NotePlan… and vice versa. As to whether they are redundant or complementary, I reluctantly have to say they are mostly redundant, but that may depend somewhat on your needs. I agree completely that they are both elegantly designed. Do they seem redundant to you or complementary?

#Backup noteplan software#

I think they overlap in function and even in elegant modern German software design. Stephen asked in a comment on that article my impressions of NotePlan and Things. Back in September I wrote about NotePlan 3 (which is now out of beta an in official release).