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This notes organizer has a small footprint but packs a lot into it.
Quotepad is a desktop notes organizer that's easy to use and is free to download.
Quotepad is great for quick notes you want to save. It's small (930 KB) and it has some great features. My favorite feature is when you copy some text from a website, Quotepad saves the note and the URL of the page it was from. Even better, with a few key strokes or a click or two, its automatically pasted into Quotepad.
Notes are searchable and can be added to folders you create. Quotepad can add reminders, comes in many languages, has keyboard shortcuts, and, it exports your notes to a .txt or .xml file that can be opened in several other programs.
Quotepad docks to the side of your screen as a thin vertical line. The default is orange but the program has several color schemes if you want to change the color.
The notepad pops out when you mouse over it. It pops out too often for me, so you may want to enable the "hide on leave focus" feature. It automatically hides the notes window when you switch to another application window.
The program is portable and the website has extensive help and how-to for the program.
This is a good alternative if you don't need a larger notes organizer, such as Evernote.
QuotePad runs under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and has a multilingual interface.
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Rhiannon
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I absolutely, utterly loved Gobinder 2006. Unfortunately, the developers seem to have stopped development. v2006 was the last version out. I think it was much better than OneNote.
Quotepad is great as it time stamps the note. However, it crashed on WIN7. CintaNotes adds the time stamp and so far, is stable on Win 7. Some comments on note takers with lots of whistles and bells. All I need is something quick and simple to take notes while working. The time stamp makes it perfect so I can remind myself when I start/finish a project. Anything extra I move in to Notepad++, Editpad Lite or even OneNote. For me this is just a handy digital post it
Interesting it crashed on Windows 7 when it says it compatible with it.
Another good reason to stick to Cinta notes.
http://notebook.google.com
Google Notebook is the best notetaker I've found: it runs in a browser, always available no matter where you are, searchable, a nice Firefox plug-in that auto-creates a note about the web page you're on complete with URL, etc etc.
Google stopped developing Notebook a while ago. Sad, that.
Zoho Notebook is good and has the ability to embed anything - video, audio, code, images and lots of other things that I would never use.
I love the Firefox plug-in Zotero but its support right now is limited to Firefox.
I also really like cinta notes, exports to .txt and .xml I like the global ctrl F12 function that clips any selected text to the program. Gizmo strikes agian. :) Thanks!
I started using Cinta notes after it was mentioned here. Great program.
I've been keeping an eye on KeepNote - it looks good and its cross platform.
"KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, TODO lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, you can retrieve any note for later reference."
It stores notes in HTML Files.
A little warning about QuotePad-online help pages, my AV Norton 360 reports of a Trojan and some bogus AV warning that want you to run a fake AV-scan online.
The app QuotePad is not reported infected, I did run a complete AV-check with Norton 360 on it.
/Rune L
KeyNote tabbed notebook with RichText editor, multi-level notes and strong encryption
or try The Guide, it's really good and free
http://theguide.sourceforge.net/features.html
New version of Cinta Notes is out.
Thanks for the update :)
Anupam Shriwatri
I use google notes. I can access my notes anywhere.
FF has a nice addon which allow me to safe selected text in google notes with one click.
NotesHolder, a QuotePad clone: http://notes.aklabs.com/ (or vice versa).
That's EXACTLY what I thought when I first saw the Quotepad screenshot!
In addition to Jojoyee's findings:
Version # is exactly the same: 2.2
If you go to A!K Research Labs homepage (http://www.aklabs.com/), there is a news chronology on the left side. It says "06/11 - NotesHolder 2.2", meaning of course that the 2.2 version was released on June 11th.
Now to to the Quotepad changelog (http://quotepad.info/changelog.php). It says "Version 2.2 (Jun 11, 2009)". Yep, same release date!
I'm assuming it's the same company and differentiating their products to gain overall market share and/or exploring different market niches.
Thanks for mentioning NotesHolder, which I notice it comes with free Lite and commercial Pro version. Free version supports export to txt only.
This is interesting, or shall I say, surprising to have these findings:
1. Some similarities in the help file?
NotesHolder website says:
NotesHolder provides an opportunity to export all the notes to an XML or text file. In the main menu select "Export" menu item, specify the name of the destination file and its type (XML or txt) in the dialog, press "Save" button.
(Hint: Notes Export to an XML file is not available in NotesHolder Lite.)
And QuotePad website says:
QuotePad provides an opportunity to export all the notes to an XML or text file. In the main menu select "Export" menu item, specify the name of the destination file and its type (XML or txt) in the dialog, press "Save" button.
All the words here are the same, except their program name and that QuotePad does away with the Hint. Earlier we noticed that QuotePad does not export to xml format even its website says so.
2. Taking over the program each other
While NotesHolder is running, I install QuotePad. QuotePad will then terminate NotesHolder (it says it terminates QuotePad) before installing itself.
While QuotePad is running, I install NotesHolder. NotesHolder will then terminate QuotePad (it says it terminates NotesHolder) before installing itself.
3. Banner
NotesHolder (free version) has a banner "Try NotesHolder Pro!"
QuotePad does not have this banner.
4. Copyright
NotesHolder -- Copyright (C) 2000-2006, A!K Research Labs, All rights reserved.
QuotePad -- Copyright (C) 2008-2009, QuotePad.info, All rights reserved.
QuotePad is a rebranding experiment of Notesholder Lite.
Very very interesting... hmmmm... Quotepad developed themselves on NotesHolder? :D
Anupam Shriwatri
Thanks for the suggestion rhiannon. I wanted a small note-taker from a long time. Had seen Evernote, but it has a big download size, and probably extra features, which I don't want.
Quotepad looks good. Also, thanks for those who suggested Cinta Notes, like it too... and keeping it. Will try out minipad2 too. These small programs are little wonders :).
Thanks guys :)
Anupam Shriwatri
Anupam, try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8381
(You need FF for this ;))
Thanks a lot... I will try it out. Although I dont have Evernote, but I do have Firefox xD
Anupam Shriwatri
I like Cinta notes too. Its one of the programs I downloaded and tested when I was looking for a smaller notes program.
I'd toss in another vote for OneNote. I use it all the time.
Both CintaNotes and Quotepad are quite similar. CintaNotes has been developed earlier and looks to me more stable. Export to text and xml are supported. Quotepad is newer with its first public version released in March 2009. Unless I'm mistaken, I notice the current version 2.2 has some bugs such as export to txt only and not both txt and xml formats as claimed in the developer's website, but Quotepad has more useful features such as hiding/docking to the side of windows, alarm, etc.
Minipad2 works quite differently and has many other interesting features. All are little gems.
Thanks for the reply Jojoyee. I installed all three on my system. I noticed both CintaNotes, and Quotepad are similar.
And yes, I tried exporting the notes on Quotepad, but there is no option to export as xml... only as text. But, I guess its ok, as I want the text format only. Hope they will fix this up though, as xml might be useful if I want to transfer notes between computers.
I haven't given a try to minipad2 yet. I like that in both Quotepad, and Cinta Notes... they can be configured to close to system tray. I didnt find that in minipad2. minipad2 looks different, have yet to explore it.
But all three, nice little programs :)
Anupam Shriwatri
When Minipad2 window is active, press Esc to minimize to system tray (default setting).
Edit: Or just click the minimize button of the Minipad2 window.
Oh thanks for it :D. I had seen that in the setting.. was written... Esc used to minimize... I thought it would just minimize to the taskbar. Lol... thanks :D.
Anupam Shriwatri
One word pretty much militates against the suggestion of any other note organizer: Evernote
Yes Cinta notes is good and you do have portable version.
OneNote all the way for me. Bonus points for the completely reliable syncing with my Windows Mobile PDA. Extra bonus points coming soon when MS launches the free web-based client and allows me to keep my OneNote files in the cloud. If I weren't using this I'd be using EverNote. Can't imagine a scenario where QuotePad would be on my machine with these two great alternatives available.
Hi Rhiannon,
Thanks again for the good info again. This software is quite useful for me.
I check back the developer's help page. It says "QuotePad provides an opportunity to export all the notes to an XML or text file".
When I click export, it shows me the default txt format rather than the xml file extension. And in actual fact, I note that the program is saving the file in txt format even though you try to save the file with the xml extension. I wonder if I've missed out something.
In any way, text file format is what I need.
The auto paste of URL works with Firefox, but not with Chrome which I've tried. It would have been better if the hyperlink behind the anchor text can be detected by the software.
I'll check out the export in XML, I haven't had occasion to use it yet.
It would be nice if the autopaste worked in Chrome. Maybe they'll update it.
Props to the one who mentioned minipad
http://www.nebulasoft.cn/minipad2/minipad2_en.html
That thing is great!
Yadabyte Notes - but you cannot delete the name of the note and history can only be changed with text editor.
http://www.yadabyte.com/Yadabyte_Portables.php
Panzer
Both Quotepad and Cinta Notes are great. I also like minipad2 3.1.2.
Yes, QuotePad's great, and the filter works well.
Rhiannon says, "it exports your notes to an .xml file that can be opened in several other programs." Which programs do people recommend for these .xml files?
Tip: try docking at the top of the screen. You can then set the best position and width when using the always-on-top pin.
Some of the programs in Office 2007 will open XML files.
Open Office and Abiword will open them as well.
Other programs can open them, I think most browsers will open them.
I seem to recall one or two of the password storage programs can export files in XML.
Thanks. One minor problem: .xml export only available in the paid version after 30 days. Only $14.95, though
I like Cinta Notes.
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