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NoteTaker for Mac

Organize and share all your information in one place.

$29.99
In English
Version 4.5.4
3.5
Based on 15 user rates

NoteTaker overview

NoteTaker lets you organize and Share All Your Information In One Place

  • NoteTaker™ for macOS is an innovative, next-generation application for capturing, organizing and retrieving any kind of information in an intuitive electronic notebook. As a personal productivity tool, NoteTaker enables a powerful yet easy to use environment for working with your information.
  • Use NoteTaker daily in every part of your life- at home, at work, for a project, or just for fun. NoteTaker takes an intuitive, outliner approach to your task, no matter what the complexity, and you can customize it to fit your work style and information needs.
  • NoteTaker is fully compatible with notebooks created by the original NoteTaker and NoteShare apps
Information At Your Fingertips
  • Even if you’re using NoteTaker for the first time, you’ll already know how to use a NoteTaker notebook. An intuitive multi-page notebook with section tabs makes it easy to page through content just like in a regular paper-based notebook. In addition, you can tag, index, prioritize, and summarize information of any kind, performing intelligent searches without the complexity of a database system. If it’s in NoteTaker, you can find it any time from anywhere.
Notebooks for Everything

With NoteTaker, it’s easy and convenient to:

  • Gather a variety of information throughout the day and organize it in free text, lists, outlines, or tables
  • Use notebooks as central hubs for major projects, organizing schedules, contacts, document attachments, clippings from other applications, voice memos, Web links, and even live Web pages
  • Keep an address book and To Do list, generating mailing lists, prioritizing tasks, and checking them off when they’re completed
  • Outline, generate, and index a document-be it a professional paper, school report, or book of favorite recipes
  • Record lectures while taking notes that are synced to the audio and vice versa
  • View live web pages and podcasts in an embedded Web browser
  • Assemble scrapbooks or briefs of Internet clippings, photos, diagrams, and movies
  • Organize and summarize research notes, keep track of school assignments, and manage other school projects
  • Share notebooks between multiple computers using iCloud
  • Retrieve earlier versions using macOS's native document versioning
  • Set a password to keep your notebook data secure with 128-bit AES encryption
Creating and Publishing Notebook Content
  • Generate PDF "notebooks" anyone can view.
  • Publish a Web Notebook™, making your content available over a private network or on the Internet.
  • NoteTaker applications are nearly unlimited when it comes to organizing notes, ideas, projects, and other information. As we like to say, "Use it every day for everything that’s on your mind."
Who is using NoteTaker?
  • Individuals organizing and keeping personal notebook journals, to do lists and scrapbooks
  • Artists, musicians and writers creating new projects, brainstorming and reflecting
  • Students taking course notes, researching topics and reviewing for exams
  • Professors, teachers and tutors creating course materials, web notebooks and lectures
  • Attorneys outlining case work, recording meeting notes and preparing presentations
  • Researchers and scientists organizing research projects and lab notebooks
  • Project managers and scrum masters organizing agile projects, writing user stories and keeping notes
  • Exec teams organizing presentations, agendas and reports
  • Consultants managing client projects, research and meeting notes
  • Knowledge workers and team leaders enhancing and organizing their daily work
  • Family members planning events and trips, tracking to do lists and keeping notes
  • Engineers and software developers organizing work projects, keeping notes and clipping information from web sources

What’s new in version 4.5.4

  • Fixes printing issues when running in MacOS 13.0.
  • The "Print Page" command and toolbar button has been removed due to issues related to changes in printing system behavior. Individual pages can still be printed using the normal Print panel.

NoteTaker for Mac

$29.99
In English
Version 4.5.4
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3.5

(41 Reviews of NoteTaker)

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daveyarddave
daveyarddave
May 4 2022
4.5.0
0.0
May 4 2022
0.0
Version: 4.5.0
Looks great, but for $30 it needs a demo.
OhEssex
OhEssex
Jan 19 2021
4.2.0
2.0
Jan 19 2021
2.0
Version: 4.2.0
Thought I'd add to my earlier comment from 2019. This software really hasn't advanced much (from a user facing perspective) since then, although the developer has been spending much time supposedly improving the infrastructure to allow for a smoother path forward. That being said, I see very little in the way of fixing bugs and annoyances. I continue to see some data loss and I've just discovered another round of it after it crashed yet again (which it does about once a week or so). I keep my NoteTaker documents in iCloud and after my most recent crash it somehow seems the version in iCloud is a week old (despite saving multiple times per day) and so I've lost everything I've done for the past week. I really have little enthusiasm left for this software... I'm profoundly sad that Circus Ponies Notebook went away because that developer couldn't compete against all the free software out there (Microsoft OneNote, EverNote etc.). NoteTaker is a fork of the CPN development, but it's simply not even even close to the quality and robustness of CPN.
OhEssex
OhEssex
Oct 31 2019
4.0.5
2.0
Oct 31 2019
2.0
Version: 4.0.5
I've been using this software a lot since it's rise from the ashes and I gotta say that it's still very buggy. Lots of beach-balling and unforgivable loss of data (of mostly pasted in images/files). Frankly I just don't think I can trust it for big projects until it stabilizes. I suggest waiting a few months until the killer bugs are tracked down and squashed. Maybe you think my 2-star review is harsh, but I've lost dozens of hours dealing with files that suddenly lost 10's of megabytes of data after mindlessly editing a sentence of text. Maybe it's OK for text-only notebooks, but if you're pasting in images and files you're definitely at risk data loss (I've seen this using OS X Sierra and Mojave). I have many NoteTaker files that exceed 100MB and I just hate knowing that all the work I poured into them is full of random lost data.
Sampler
Sampler
Oct 8 2019
4.0.4
5.0
Oct 8 2019
5.0
Version: 4.0.4
. In the last four or five years before the recent update, I searched far and wide for a replacement. OmniOutliner was simply too rigid-one couldn't mix pictures into the outline scheme. Growly Notes looked promising, but had no outline feature and the linking functions were unrefined. Version 4 is solid. With version 4, I've expanded my use; I create template pages for project worksheets that incorporate the table function that's part of the OS. This used to be flaky, but now works smoothly. I also use NT for personal use-to keep notes and links to music. In 2009 I dinged NT one star because I couldn't work on two pages at once. But I rarely do that: I just want to work on one page while looking at a second. Now, I just copy the second page to a blank TexEdit page or even to a Sticky. And I found that the the Voice Memo function is ideal for recording conference calls while I write notes about the calls. For those interested in NT's design, see Ted Goranson's overview as NT stood in 2004. http://www.atpm.com/10.05/atpo.shtml Highly recommended
Nuthinnew
Nuthinnew
Oct 6 2019
4.0.4
5.0
Oct 6 2019
5.0
Version: 4.0.4
NoteTaker is more powerful than all other outline programs I've used. I'm thrilled to have the recent update! Its primary strength is its ability to combine multiple outlines in one notebook, in one file. Multiple related but distinct projects can thus be combined, between which notes and attachments can be moved or copied. With its over 20 (!) commands for navigating about each page—not just from entry to entry but from section to section—one can quickly get a sense of the various layers of the project(s) one is outlining. For myself, being a researcher, this is exceptionally valuable. Other inestimable features are automatic date/time stamping and being able to see, and organize, by such time/date stamps, and the means to mark an entry as an "action" or "priority" item, by which one can again sort entries. And being able to highlight entries and group those that have been highlighted. And the index of all terms used. And the word count not just for the whole document but for any section, page, or selection. And the ability to delimit what is printed or converted to PDF. And, and, and. Is there any other program out there that can do all this, for this price, without the threat of invasive data-mining or an on-going fee? If so, I haven't found it. The developers are working to refine it but the program is, for my purposes and money, the best on the market. I'm very glad 4.0 is here!
OhEssex
OhEssex
Jan 19 2021
2.0
Jan 19 2021
2.0
Version: null
Sampler
Sampler
Oct 8 2019
5.0
Oct 8 2019
5.0
Version: null
Nuthinnew
Nuthinnew
Oct 6 2019
5.0
Oct 6 2019
5.0
Version: null
Meitnik
Meitnik
Sep 4 2013
1.0
Sep 4 2013
1.0
Version: null
ngc4900
ngc4900
Nov 24 2012
1.5
Nov 24 2012
1.5
Version: null
Spacemanspiff
Spacemanspiff
Nov 20 2012
2.5
Nov 20 2012
2.5
Version: null
Shidong
Shidong
Nov 6 2011
4.0
Nov 6 2011
4.0
Version: null
Vivian
Vivian
Sep 21 2008
4.0
Sep 21 2008
4.0
Version: null
Mabelle
Mabelle
Sep 19 2008
4.0
Sep 19 2008
4.0
Version: null
Tomem
Tomem
Sep 26 2006
4.5
Sep 26 2006
4.5
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Dec 27 2004
1.8
Dec 27 2004
1.8
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Mar 12 2004
5.0
Mar 12 2004
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Dec 9 2003
2.0
Dec 9 2003
2.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Oct 1 2003
4.8
Oct 1 2003
4.8
Version: null
Jchryss
Jchryss
Sep 18 2003
5.0
Sep 18 2003
5.0
Version: null