STEVEN GOODHEART This has to be one of the most powerful ten buck "note takers" I've ever come across. You can hot-key create notes or grab text system-wide, you can tag what you grab, and use the tags to filter your files. The program creates auto-wiki links between document names and you can create you own wiki-links...it has built-in spell check and grammar check, URL link detection....just grabbed something from the web with a user-define hot-key? Want to append to what you just grabbed? A user-defined hot-key does it. The interface is brilliant, using side-panes for showing tags and the docs in your database, and is simplicity itself. Also, the file formats are all RTF, txt, or RTFD, so you're not trapped into a proprietary format with your data!
If I was not so wedded in data collection/organization/management to the *much* more expensive DevonThink Pro, I'd buy this program in an instant. In fact, I'm damn tempted to get it anyway, use it for quick and dirty (but smart) data collection, and then dump files into DevonThink for it's way smart artificial intelligence and other amazing features.
I just don't see how you can go wrong for $10 with this program, and the suite of programs that this program is related to called Automation is also brilliant and a damn good buy. I usually don't review a program I haven't bought (in this case, for reasons of redundancy with DTPro) but my test drive of this blew me away. AutoNotes is just a brilliant little piece of software.
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