Notenik Review by AppAddict
Adventure # 35 • Sunday, October 6, 2024
Notenik received a nice review recently from Lou Plummer, on his AppAddict page.
Importing a Quotation from WikiQuote
Adventure # 34 • Monday, September 30, 2024
Notenik can now import selected quotations from WikiQuote.org, hopefully saving time and potential data entry errors.
read more • tags: commonplace
Why Is the Notenik File Format Different?
Adventure # 33 • Monday, September 23, 2024
Notenik supports MultiMarkdown metadata and YAML frontmatter, but has a preference for its own file format. If this seems a bit of a mystery to you, then read on.
read more • tags: MultiMarkdown, YAML, file format
Why Notenik is Shrouded in Perpetual Obscurity
Adventure # 32 • Monday, September 9, 2024
When people finally stumble across Notenik, they often ask “How have I never heard of this before?” Well, here’s where I provide a definitive answer to that question.
read more • tags: popularity
Notenik vs. Junkification
Adventure # 31 • Friday, September 6, 2024
How Notenik is designed for “the long flourishing” recommended by David Brooks, rather than the cheap and easy hits so prevalent in modern American life.
Inline Hashtags and Postel's Law
Adventure # 30 • Wednesday, September 4, 2024
How do we tag our notes? Let me count the ways….
Notenik's Split Personality
Adventure # 29 • Friday, August 30, 2024
Is it yet another “just a bunch of text files” app? Or is it a personal database system for the Mac? Well, a bit of both, to be honest.
read more • tags: database, design
A Dedicated Outline Tab
Adventure # 28 • Thursday, August 22, 2024
Notenik Version 15.1.0 has just been released into the Mac App Store, and it includes a new, optional, Outline tab that can be displayed when using the Seq and Level fields to build an outline.
read more • tags: outlines, versions.15-1-0
Dragging and Dropping Into an Outline
Adventure # 27 • Sunday, August 18, 2024
Notenik supports drag and drop in many situations, and two of them are especially suited for use with outlining.
Indenting and Outdenting Outline Entries
Adventure # 26 • Friday, August 16, 2024
Notenik makes it easy to indent or outdent a single note or a range of notes.
Indentation to Show Outline Levels
Adventure # 25 • Thursday, August 15, 2024
When you sort by Seq + Title, Notenik will automatically pad the Title field display on the List tab to create indentation reflective of your overall outline structure.
Incrementing an Existing Sequence Number
Adventure # 24 • Wednesday, August 14, 2024
I’ve talked previously about Automatically Incrementing Sequence Numbers for new notes, using any of several different methods. But what if you want to insert something new in the middle somewhere? Here’s the answer to that problem.
read more • tags: fields.seq, keyboard shortcuts.CMD-I, main menu.Note.Increment, outlines
Changing Adventure URLs
Adventure # 23 • Wednesday, August 14, 2024
I’m making a few changes to the Adventures blog. Most significantly, the blog post URLs are changing, dropping dates in favor of simple titles.
read more • tags: Adventures
Automatically Incrementing Sequence Numbers
Adventure # 22 • Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Notenik offers three slightly different approaches to adding Notes in sequence, such that Notenik will automatically increment your Seq values as you go.
read more • tags: fields.seq, outlines
Outlining with Notenik
Adventure # 21 • Monday, August 12, 2024
Notenik has two special metadata fields β Seq and Level β that can easily be used to structure a collection of notes into an outline.
Formatting a Quote Attribution with Notenik 15.0.0
Adventure # 20 • Sunday, August 4, 2024
This latest release of Notenik now provides a handy new Markdown extension that can be used to nicely format an attribution line following a blockquote.
read more • tags: Markdown, citations, commonplace, quotations
Leveraging Commonplace Entries
Adventure # 19 • Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Once you have a commonplace book, what can you do with it? Here’s where all that hard work pays off, if you’re using Notenik.
read more • tags: commonplace
Commonplace Data
Adventure # 18 • Monday, July 29, 2024
Once you’ve committed to starting a commonplace book, and then decided to store your book in plain text files formatted with Markdown, then the next question is: what data do you want to collect as part of each entry?
read more • tags: commonplace, fields, lookup
Storage Medium for a Commonplace Book
Adventure # 17 • Sunday, July 28, 2024
Once you’ve committed to starting a commonplace book, your first question will be: how should I store it? I think there’s really only one good answer here.
read more • tags: Markdown, commonplace, plain text, text files
Commonplacing with Notenik
Adventure # 16 • Saturday, July 27, 2024
As one reviewer on the US Mac App Store says, Notenik βis flexible enough to fit any number of use cases, from the simple to the complex.β But certainly one of my core use cases for Notenik is storage of a commonplace book.
read more • tags: commonplace
Eating My Own Dogfood
Adventure # 15 • Friday, July 19, 2024
I’ll tell you a little secret – even if no one else in the world was using Notenik, I would still continue to work on it, just because I want to use it.
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Let's Talk Metadata
Adventure # 17 • Thursday, July 18, 2024
Let’s talk metadata for a minute. You might call it front matter. But Notenik has supported such fields for over ten years, and has a rich set of functionality to make use of this info.
read more • tags: MultiMarkdown, YAML, fields, metadata
Custom Display Mode
Adventure # 13 • Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Notenik 14.9.0 adds a new custom display mode.
read more • tags: display mode, display tab, merge-templates
Mac Menus
Adventure # 12 • Tuesday, July 16, 2024
There are some nice side benefits to Notenik’s use of traditional Mac menus.
read more • tags: keyboard shortcuts, menus
Three Types of Merge Templates
Adventure # 11 • Monday, July 15, 2024
Notenik supports essentially three different types of merge templates. Learn what each one is used for, and how they differ from one another.
read more • tags: display, merge-templates, website
Use Merge Templates to Format Output
Adventure # 10 • Friday, July 12, 2024
Merge Templates are one of Notenik’s most powerful features, because they allow you to easily format the data in your Notes into any output format that can be expressed within a text file. HTML, XML, JSON, CSV, tab-delimited and plain text files can all be generated easily, whenever you like.
read more • tags: display tab, merge-templates
Cross-Posting to Mastodon
Adventure # 9 • Thursday, July 11, 2024
It’s taken a few tries to get this working but from now on I believe all of the Adventures with Notenik blog posts (starting with this one!) should be automatically cross-posting to @notenik@mastodon.social.
read more • tags: mastodon, rss
How To Build A Website
Adventure # 8 • Wednesday, July 10, 2024
I’ve used Notenik to build several different websites. Here’s the general workflow that I use.
Using Match-Merge Logic in Notenik
Adventure # 7 • Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Notenik has a powerful ability to apply match-merge logic to an imported data set. Here’s how it works.
read more • tags: commonplace, csv, import, lookup, match, merge
Notenik 201 Video Now Available
Adventure # 6 • Monday, July 8, 2024
Due to popular demand, there’s now a second Notenik video available! Hopefully it won’t take me another two years before I tackle the next one!
read more • tags: instruction, videos
Adding a JSON Feed to Your Site
Adventure # 5 • Sunday, July 7, 2024
A JSON feed is another kind of web feed that you can add to your site using Notenik. Here’s an example of how you might do that.
read more • tags: datacount, datamax, feed, json
Adding an Atom Feed to Your Site
Adventure # 4 • Saturday, July 6, 2024
An Atom feed is another kind of web feed that you can use on your site. This is newer than RSS, and is also XML-based.
read more • tags: feed, rss, xml
Adding an RSS Feed to Your Site
Adventure # 3 • Friday, July 5, 2024
An RSS feed is one kind of web feed that you can use on your site. This is the oldest of the various feed formats, and is XML-based.
read more • tags: feed, rss, xml
Adding a Web Feed to Your Site
Adventure # 2 • Thursday, July 4, 2024
If you have a website to which you regularly add content, then at some point you will probably want to add a web feed to your site. You can use a combination of Notenik’s Script files and Merge templates to easily generate such web feeds, in any or all of the major formats. It’s always been possible to do this sort of counting with Notenik, but a system variable called datacount now makes this easier than ever.
read more • tags: datacount, feed, rss, scripting
Introduction
Adventure # 1 • Wednesday, July 3, 2024
A brief intro to some of my adventures with Notenik, and with software development more generally, as well as a summary of expectations for this blog.
read more • tags: Adventures, developer, intro, origins