I am a pretty heavy user of SOHONotes with it running all the time and many folders of notes of all types in the database. My experience is that the current version is totally reliable, running for many days (even months) at a time with not a single crash.

I did have one issue (documented in a comment below) with the contents of fields in a form disappearing from view after a context switch to another application (but not losing the data), but after reporting this to Chronos it has been fixed and I do not have any more functional bugs with the product.

I find this an incredibly feature-rich Notes product; indeed I find it hard to think of a feature that is missing. Adding its stability to this I don't think there is another similar product on the market that compares.

Obviously there are some rather critical reviews of this product below but my experience does not replicate theirs in any way. I can't help but wonder whether there is actually some hidden motive to them.

I have used this application since it was called Sticky Notes. I have paid for many updates over the years even though most companies would have provided free updates for most of the features that were provided in the updates. Now I have to update again just to be able to sync my data with my iPad and iPhone. Over the years I have invested hundreds of dollars in updates and iPad and iPhone Apps but this is the final straw...I am no longer going to be suckered into another update...I'm going elsewhere which is a shame because it is a good product...just greedy management and poor customer service.

When I briefly played with this program a few versions ago my thoughts were that there was a wealth of features which made for a potentially terrific package but ultimately spoilt by poor programming.

And when I say poor programming I mean arguably the most bafflingly bug-ridden major Mac OS X application I have ever encountered.

can't even try it because as soon as i import a note which opens fine on yojimbo it locks up, crashes, and then on re-open gives me a msg:
"Couldn’t connect to database ...SOHO Notes failed to connect to the database, because the following error occurred: The file “Personal.sohodb” couldn’t be opened because it isn’t in the correct format."

with an option of either "Restore backup database" which doesn't open because it is either blanked out or doesn't exist, and "Quit" ....so i have to quit ....and that's it ....cannot open it again.

Same thing happens again after deleting all files and starting from scratch.

The best Note app and lot more on Mac OS X, and, I had made a small review on Soho Notes and the experience was not good, I read a remark on my comment and decided to try again and it works pretty well now, so I guess it wasn't soho notes fault after all. Getting Back to the review, it's the most compatible and easy to use Note App I ever used, it even can record iSight video logs easily, it has a very convenient menu bar search engine for all your notes, it's very flexible, and it has amazing features like direct scanner input, Blogging post, Syncronization, MacOS X spotlight integration and much more. I honestly now think it's the best app for organization and note keeping, and most simple to use, there's room to improvement but it's by far the best on Mac OS X.

Using SOHO Notes v8.06 on a MacBook Pro 15-inch (late 2008) running Snow Leopard 10.6.1.

Try this:

Create a text Note. Make sure that you have text in the Body of the Note.

Duplicate the Note (command-D).

The Body Text in the new Note is missing.


I have contacted the authors about this, but no response yet. I just wanted to pass this along to see if anyone else has noticed this behavior.

8.04 will not back up to MobileMe.
Still no reply from Chronos Support.

have just installed Soho Notes 6.5.1 and now my Dock Note bar doesn't show up until I click on the menu icon. When I enable the "hiding" function, the dock notes migrate across the screen if I click on the tab or try to adjust the size. It just moves left until it falls off the screen and then the only way I can seem to get it back is to disable "Turn hiding on".

I hope this is easy to fix. My mac is a PowerBook G4 1.67 ghz with 10.4.10

When I upgrdaded from StickyBrain to this program, it erased every entry in my iCal calendars (in fact, it deleted the calendars) and, in addition, removed all information from my Apple Address Book except for the name of each contact (gone were addresses, phone numbers, etc.)
To make matters worse, Chronos support policy is to charge for phone calls and for e-mail trouble-shooting.
Be extremely cautious before using the sync features of this program.