Finally, thanks be to God I found the IDEAL note-taking app! After trying out & searching through the complete MacAppStore and here on Macupdate (and hours of googling), finally I found this little app that truly is the perfect simplicity, distraction-free, notes organizing app, and yet even through simple looking (but it looks quite modern on OS X Lion, not at all like in the "old" picture here), and yet as simple as it looks it is indeed a powerhouse with uniquely useful features such as:

– automatic Backup (in Archive format, which is just perfect for Dropbox, Cloud Uploading etc.),
– Database Password Protection,
– Nested Tree Structure with Color Coding!,
– Rich Text Editing
– Color Text Highlighting,
– Instant Search
etc.

And that all for just small $14 !

Please do not be fooled by its initial simplicity, this app is a hidden gem! I used and bought Journler, Scrivener and Curio for my note taking but NONE made me work so efficient and clear-minded as this little app !!

yeah, i also tried a billion notepads and inotepad wins everytime.

first, it uses a folder structure (how flexible is a flat note list or time wasting tagged libraries, featured in a number of other similar apps?) which shows up in path finder as real folders and rtfd files which are easy to view outside inotepad.

then it features file locking (to prevent accidental edits), multiple databases with encryption and password protection, automatic saving and backup, rich text and image editing, color labels, ftp uploading... so many features in a single windowed app.

ok, like appscout says, the icons could be updated =) but if it bothers me too much, i can update them myself in the package contents.

anyway, it's time to forget the lure of eye candy apps which in turn, lack in flexibility and functionality.

inotepad is simple, fast, lightweight and it's pefect for storing all song lyrics, recipes, well, everything. even your sensitive passwords (why use a dedicated password keeper app with limited fields and organization levels? just because it has pretty icons of a bank, a smile and a plane?).

two things that i could use, missing from inotepad are the ability to resize an image in the notebody and an option to auto encrypt folders when exiting the app (currently i have to set the whole db to be protected which encrypts on exit and asks for my pass on launch, but if i don't encrypt the db and just encrypt a folder on the left pane, if i unprotect it during a session so i can read the contents, i have to remember to protect it again before exiting inotepad).

Quite perfect to me! The Finder like organization with folders and labels suits my needs.
I could only complain about some detail such as this one: while it uses .rtfd format for storing the notes, if you try to open them in some other app, it works but you'll probably lose formatting such as margin, width, tabs, page breaks and so on if you share that document between both apps. (I needed to repeatedly print a long evolving note and wanted to have it with a particular layout when printed, but keeping the ease of use of iNotepad, but in the end I had to make a separate document)
I confess it's nothing compared to all it does well... ;-)

The best...features, UI, price! Nothing else is as complete.

I've been using iNotepad since version 1 under MacOS 9. It never let me down and has constantly improved. The developer is very responsive and I'm happy to see three of my recent requests implemented in this update. In fact, the developer emailed a beta within a couple of days asking for feedback. The pricing is justified and the level of convenience really high... as I said, it's a lil' app that I use on a daily basis. Been trying out DevonNote and others but always returned to iNotepad

I accidentally posted this in reviews instead of in troubleshooting, so here it is again.

I've been a happy user of iNotepad for many years. Today I tried to move my database so it would be available on my wife's desktop as well as my own. I followed the instructions in the help file to create a folder called "iNotePad" in Dropbox then an alias of the same name in my user/documents folder. When that didn't work for me I restored the database to it's own "iNotePad" folder in my Documents folder. However, now the database shows up in the Database drop down menu in iNotePad but it will not accept my password. When I enter the password, nothing happens but the drop down menu just returns to the default database it was showing before (which has no content).

I have tried restoring the file using Time Machine several times but nothing is working. I'm desperate as I have huge lists of passwords, app registrations and key data for several websites. Can anyone help?