[atleta]

I'm still looking for the note taking app that can replace Tomboy. Not because Tomboy is great (it isn't), but because it's actually a note taking app. Most apps seem to be this huge convoluted editors, with a UI resembling an IDE. Which I'm sure is pretty nice for creating a nice hierarchical structure, writing long documents and crosslinking them but, for me at least, note taking is about taking random short or ad hoc notes. Be it during a meeting or just collecting information or organizing thoughts about a specific topic but not necessarily for the long term and then using those while working in other apps (e.g. writing code, creating a blog post, etc.)

And for that I need something that's lightweight on the screen. Just the text and none of the tools that take up extra space. Also, I'd have multiple notes (in separate windows) and have the app running all the time so that creating a new note is just a few clicks. (A global keyboard shortcut would be even better.)

Now the major shortcoming of Tomboy (besides the lack of real markdown support, though the bullet point handling is pretty much OK) is that it gets stuck at this lightweight level and there is no UI for the aforementioned organization. (Though it does create links semi-automatically, which is not bad, though I don't use it a lot.) So it seems that one can have either end of the spectrum, but most documents, at least for me, would start as lightweight notes and then some of them may turn out to be something more convoluted and for the long term. So it would be nice to have an app that covers both. (Unfortunately, copy-pasting from Tomboy doesn't work well, so the bullet point hierarchy gets lost. Also, it would be nice to have it based on markdown and plain text files, but it uses xml, IIRC.)

[alsetmusic]

There was a recent discussion[0] about a newly released Mac app called Bike[1] which is from an expert designing functional text-based apps[2]. Hope this applies to you.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31409077 [1]https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/ [2]https://www.taskpaper.com

[renewiltord]

The built-in Apple Notes has this I think. You just point to the bottom right of your screen and you can write a new note.

[NonNefarious]

I used Evernote for a while, and then (if I remember correctly) they changed their terms, and I said nope. Right around that time, Apple finally pulled its head out of its ass and added groups or categories to Notes, making it viable.

Now I have everything in Notes, synced through iCloud.

Apple Notes doesn't use any standard format, but you can export your notes. Otherwise, I'd be way into an open-source, self-hosted solution.

[dan_hawkins]

Stickies in macOS never failed me!

https://support.apple.com/guide/stickies/welcome/mac