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Flashnote Keeps Your Notes Organized, Simple, and Effortless

August 7th, 2009 @ 5:00 am

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Categories: Documents, Software

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Note, System Tray, Flashnote, Outline Node, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Dave Johnson

I use Microsoft OneNote to take notes and keep myself organized throughout the day. In fact, it’s almost always running, ready to consume whatever thought wanders across my mind. I recently found a lightweight, crazy-simple alternative, though, which looks perfect for anyone that wants immediate access to a simple note-taking app in the System Tray. Flashnote is as if someone upgraded Notepad into an outlining tool.

Flashnote lives in the System Tray, read to leap into action whenever you need it with a click or keyboard shortcut. Its two-pane window lets you take free-form notes or write text-only documents on the right, while organizing your writing into nested outlines on the left. New outline nodes are labeled with a time/date stamp, but you can rename them to taste.

The program autosaves your work, and you can customize the font and background color for better readability. And, of course, it’s free. If you spend a lot of time taking notes or writing drafts of text to fine-tune later, you owe it to yourself to give Flashnote a try.  [via Cybernet News]

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    BizHacksRick

    08/07/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Flashnote Keeps Your Notes Organized, Simple, and Effortless

    Evernote FTW!

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    Mikerman

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    RE: Flashnote Keeps Your Notes Organized, Simple, and Effortless

    Dave, I've been using Flashnote for a few months now, and it is a simple pleasure. I basically think of it as an electronic notepad, to quickly and easily jot down and keep notes--like the paper notepad (or Post-It pad) you keep by the phone or at the side of your desk. The only real improvements I would like to see in it is an undo/redo button, and the addition of number and symbol bullets. But highly recommended!

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    Mikerman

    08/07/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Flashnote Keeps Your Notes Organized, Simple, and Effortless

    I email chatted with the developer and he reminded me that ctrl + z will work nicely for undoing and redoing on Flashnote (I always forget about ctrl + z ...). Unfortunately, no bullets coming. But, still nice for simple and easy note-making (Microsoft's OneNote also is nice, but more complex, although with much greater breadth).

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    bmanevitz

    09/16/09 | Report as spam

    the flashnote site seems to be down

    09.16h on Wed 16 Sept 2009.

    sad Sounded like an interesting try...

    I've got Evernote, and it does what it says, but I don't think I'm using it the way I should. OTOH, I've got a bunch of random text files in a zip file on my desktop that I use all the time. So I'm thinking this is kinda something I could use.

    Someone somewhere else mentioned something similar available on Google Code, but I can't find it now. You're welcome for that tremendously helpful piece of information.

    Also - I found http://is.gd/3kWFO (brothersoft) that MIGHT be an unintentional mirror of FlashNote 3.1, and http://is.gd/3kWKW (wareseeker) -- I'm not endorsing those sites, just reporting the results of some intrepid Google searching.

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