MEERSWORLD  My message to Chronos asking for instructions on migrating my individually-licensed copy of SOHO Notes to my new laptop from my G4 desktop was answered in just a few hours with the instructions below. It got the job done!

1. Launch SOHO Notes on your old computer.

2. Choose File > Back Up Database > To a File, and save the backup.

3. Transfer this backup file to your new computer.

4. Install SOHO Notes on your new computer.

5. Launch SOHO Notes. This will create a new database.

6. Choose File > Restore Database > From a File, and select the backup file and click Open.

I have been very pleased with the app and glad I didn't have to leave it behind.  
(Version 7.0.4)

LEE123  I just finished a 30 day trial of this software and really liked it. It is very easy to get things into the notes database through the services or right click menu and via drag n drop into the sidebar thing. You have quick access through a little menu item to all your notes. I have used devonthink for a couple of years now and would switch to soho with no problems. The one thing I would miss if I did switch is the spotlight integration of devonthink. I had no stability problems at all. I transferred my notes from devon, about 600 mb, in a matter of 30-60 secs. Searching in soho was pretty much instantaneous for me and worked well even in pdfs. One thing I wished for was a way to add the notes from the organizer events to the notes database. I contacted support on two occasions about how to use the program and received an email response in 24hrs which seemed reasonable to me.   
(Version 7.0.4)

BERU0  really like the features and the interface.

I tried them all and found soho notes the only one really useful plus fun for note taking. I use it with DT (which is a pain as it has no permanent license, just beta releases). I also own Circus Ponies Notebook, but began hating the interface.

Soho notes is kind of buggy, however. Also, the search really seems to be slow.

Concerning customer support: It does exist and they even respond in a useful way to pre-purchase technical questions.

If anyone knows anything better than soho notes for note taking, please come forward with suggestions other than yojimbo (no comment), shovebox (which I use for iPhone sync, it is not bad, but not really powerful), evernote (I really do not care for online sync via a web service and annual payment) or caboodle (which is totally ok, but not really as powerful).  
(Version 7.0.4)

HAPPYT  I have found Chronos' customer service to be very poor. I have had a couple of problems connecting to the database - in fact, right now I am unable to open Notes. I have sent two "emergency" queries to them and have had nothing so far except an automated "Do not reply" response. It's been four days!

My problem is that I have recently ported everything over to a new MacBookPro and when I try opening Notes I get a message that it is unable to connect to the database. All the data appears to be intact in my Library, but it just doesn't see it for some reason. Maybe someone reading this can help?  
(Version 7.0.4)

DOUG LERNER  I have been a loyal Soho Notes fan for years. I do have problems about search speed though. I emailed Chronos today and am waiting for a reply.

Right now I have just about 680 notes in my database. That doesn't seem so much. But it's important bits and scraps of data accumulated over the years, ever since Sticky Brain, including software license numbers, etc.

I notice it takes are really really long time for search to work. For example, I just did a test looking up the word "Intuit" because I have a few notes relating to that company - a seminar I did for them, a schedule, etc.

But it took almost 70 seconds to locate the 8 notes that had "Intuit" in it. It can be very frustrating at times like when I'm on the phone and I say, "hold on, I'll look that up for you."

My question to Chronos was, is this normal with this number of notes? Is there any way of speeding this up without going through all 680 notes and adding "tags" (which I suppose creates an extra index) for each note?

I have never had any reliability/stability problems with the product and have been using it daily since StickyBrain 3.0.

doug  
(Version 7.0.4)

MIRSKYMAN  Hi. I have been looking for an app that lets me add tags to notes so I was really interested in SohoNotes, especially now that it lets you create notes with user-defined fields, similar to a program like Bento.

I tried downloading it from their web site but the installer gave me errors. I contacted them and got no response. From the posts here, I am assuming that lack of response is typical. Also, having read people's reviews, I have decided to forget SohoNotes altogether.

I am wondering, though, if anyone here has tried Together which seems like a similar app, only with less features. I did have a question about Together and the programmer of the app wrote me back in a matter of hours.

I did look at Devonthink Pro but I have found it confusing. Is there a way to add tags to notes? If not, what kind of system does it use?

Thanks  
(Version 7.0.4)

ROBOTANK  Just tried this out and found it to be ridiculously buggy. Every time I opened the application, it would ask to install the CM plugin and widget even though they were already installed. It also did some other weird stuff with my notes, such as showing them all in the trash and not properly saving new notes until I'd opened the app 4 or 5 times. Also, the process that runs the menu bar and drawer items froze up. I don't know if there was something else on my machine that had an influence on this, but for me this app was too buggy even to try for more than a few minutes.  
(Version 7.0.4)

LEO SPILL  I have foolishly persevered, repeatedly paid hard earned cash on each paid update.

But no more. It never really fitted my work flow, never really fitted my needs.

I've moved on, trashed it. Ask yourself - would Apple make an app that worked

and looked like this ?  
(Version 7.0.4)

ZO219  Why do they go on? It never gets any better. I mean, how many app reviews start out, Avoid Like the Plague. Hello?  
(Version 7.0.4)

SGGINC  Avoid like the plague.

Unable to connect to database errors.

Switched to Yohimbo years ago and never looked back.

I have an old database I cannot access. Don't need it.

Thanks ... Ken  
(Version 7.0.4)