TopXNotes for Mac

This is still one of the best Apps around for organizing notes and lists! I am not an organized person naturally, I need tools to help me, and I'm very grateful for this one.

Excellent !

I have found TopXNotes to be a top of the line note organizer. I wanted a more robust replacement for Apple's Notepad (Stickies) and I found it in this application. I use it daily to manage my text based notes like my to-do lists, contact notes, and URLs. It has many extras built right into it including find, find and replace, and encryption. The encryption lets you place a password restriction to certain notes that will keep your private information from prying eyes. The autosave feature helps protect your information when you forget to periodically save the data. It can be set to save automatically on page turn or save after a time interval. Lastly, TopXNotes has options to sync my notes with my Apple iPad.

Around 10 years ago the developer came to a Computer Group meeting in my town and exposed us to TopXNotes, and what has turned out to be one of the most useful programs I've ever used on my MAC. Through many OS updates, the program has worked well, with continual little improvements but nothing to make me relearn the software. I'm using probably half of its features, but it continues to work the way I want it to, and I'd be lost without it. I've looked at other highly touted Note-type programs, but have found nothing that would make me want to change. My hat's off to the TopXNotes folks for a most useful, stable app.

Bought about 2 -3 weeks ago after seeing the ratings and reading the features list. A little pricey but if if works I have no problem paying for it. However: 1) I hope I am out to lunch here and am blind, but I was really bummed the first time that I tried to find a note that had a URL that I needed. The features list talks about a Find, however, the find that it is talking about is "inside" a note. I spent a couple hours migrating notes from another app, so had 40-50 Top Layer and 100 + lower layer notes. THERE IS NO "GLOBAL" FIND. I guess the thinking was that one would use "Categories" i.e. (TAGS). So I started to use Categories but then found I could only have 1 Category; not enough to differentiate. Was disappointed with that. I am an old man....memory no workee 2) I can't get Dictation to work, even thought it works in Bean, Word, TextEdit at the same time and on the same screen. I was hoping that there was a conflicting shortcut key, but I changed it a couple times but no joy.....Maybe it is just me, but..... 3) No ability to import images, or at least .pdf's...I could understand for a Freebee, but $20-30 and I can't throw a .pdf in with my note. Half of my notes are stuff I have gleaned from other places, or images from screen shots With that said...this app has a lot of amazing functions that you normally would not see, you did a great job and I have really tried to work with it. I can possible get around the Global Find by using a combination of the Title(Note Name), Category, and then using the "Index" option in the organizer that sorts the notes on Note Name. Just an awful lot of work for an easy (????) implementation on your side. However, the fact that I can't include a .pdf in my note is the big show stopper for me...Maybe I expected to much...I will continued to monitor your Web-Site to see if the .pdf issue and the Global Find is ever resolved, if so then I will jump on the bandwagon again. I don't include the dictation issue. It's more likely on my side (I hope). SO.. : Global Find and .pdf paste/import within a note and I would be an extremely happy camper. If I am wrong on any of these please let me know and I will fix my rating and edit/redo my Review layne