I've had SOHO Notes for a couple of years now. Have NoteLife too on my iPhone and iPad.

I've always found it clunky, so I didn't use it much. I just plain don't like using it.

Which is why I'm here trying Devon. So far I like it much more, although I will wait until a later time after considerable use before I write a review.

"Clunky" is of course a subjective view. I have to say that I don't find SOHO Notes at all clunky - to me the UI is rather clean and user friendly.

I did check out DevonNote but the deal-breaker for me was the very limited range of note types it supports. The major shortcoming here is the lack of Forms which I use extensively for passwords, credit card details, etc, all protected by encryption.

The fact that SOHONotes supports this alongside every other type of note imaginable, including rich text with a pretty decent WP mode means that I find it far more flexible and much better value than DevonNote.

Because no-one wants to use more than one Notes application I think it is important for most people that the one they use supports all the note types they might require, and DevonNote just doesn't cut it here.

Nick, you obviously have not looked closely at Devon Note.

Otherwise you would not have posted that reply.

Well I have looked at the product and I also studied the help text quite extensively. But I was unable to find any way to create a form. For example, let's say I want a simple form with fields for User ID and password - how do I create this and have it default to be encrypted?

I can do this with SOHONotes but I could not see any way to do this with DevonNote. Please give a more detailed reply that describes how you can create the tpe of form I describe.

According to Devon's Forum for DevonNote, Version 1.7 requires Panther for proper working; then why did its download notice on MacUpdate indicate that OSX 10.2.7 is fine with it?