As someone who has relied on it for approximately 2 years, I feel that SOHO Notes does what is says it will do most of the time, but places too much reliance upon its GUI at the cost of speed as well as bugs which come and go with each update but, accumulated together, eventually become quite irritating. The latest bug for me with this 9.25 update (after overcoming the fact that the app would immediately crash upon launching) is not being able to use the sidedock at all. No agenda here - you may not enounter these problems and its certainly worth installing this product to see if it fits your needs - just my experience.

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.

Application crashes at quit in OSX Lion 10.7

Smart folders do not respect the "is in folder" criteria and haven't for any of the 8.x releases. I've submitted info to them and have not received any reply or acknowledgment. I'd like to know that this feature will work - and the lack of response from Chronos is harboring me from purchasing the product. Real shame, because this app looks promising.

Trying out this software and cannot get version 8.0.2 (the most recent version according to the dev website) to back up the database to mobileme - reports "http error".

Warning! Definitely backup your Notes database before upgrading to 6.0 (and now 6.0.1. After upgrading to 6.0, my Notes has many, MANY duplicates of notes that that reside in my database. I'd just written to SOHO for technical advice as to what to do. I'll report here what that advice is.

I like to idea of Notes, but of all the "puchased" software under OS X on my G5-2.0, this app his given me problems. I'll give this version a go, especially if the advice for the above problem will be helpful and prompt.

Ivor