![]() In my tests, I ran Quiver on my laptop and a Mac mini without any trouble using Dropbox. Quiver can search your entire library of notes, a particular notebook or within a single note.īy default, Quiver saves its database locally, but you can move it to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box.net or any other cloud service so that it’s available on multiple Macs. 1 Searching that entire database of notes was nearly instantaneous. I imported about 750 text files into Quiver, which only took a couple seconds. The note editor pane also includes forward and back buttons at the bottom, which makes it easy to skip back and forth among a several of notes. The third pane supports side-by-side editing and preview with live updating between the two, which is handy for more complicated markdown documents. The second mode is a preview pane for previewing Markdown, LaTeX and diagrams. The first is an editing mode in which you can edit the displayed note. The note editor has three modes of its own. Notes can also be opened in separate editor windows or displayed in a presentation mode where each note in a particular notebook becomes a presentation slide. The third pane is the note editor, which can occupy a single pane. You can sort the note list by title, date created, date updated or manually. The note list has a compact view that only displays note titles or an expanded view that includes the creation date and any tags associated with the note. ![]() In two-pane mode, the first pane is hidden, but you can still switch among library sections, notebooks and tags from a drop-down menu at the top of the note list. The second pane displays a list of notes based on your selection in the first pane and the third pane is the note editor. ![]() Switch to tag mode and you can access your notes from an alphabetically organized list of tags that you have assigned to notes. In notebook mode, you have access to your entire library of notes via an ‘Inbox’ of unfiled notes, ‘Favorites’ that you can assign at the bottom of the note editor pane, ‘Recents,’ ‘Trash’ and ‘All Notes.’ The left pane also features a Shared Notebooks section for collaborating on notebooks with others and a list of all your notebooks. In three-pane mode, the left pane has two modes - notebook and tag mode. Quiver’s flexibility in the way you can organize, sort and search your notes sets it apart from other apps I have tried. Each cell can accept a different type of content and every time you want to switch content types within a note, press Shift-Return to create a new cell.Ĭells are a big part of the power to Quiver, but they don’t tell the whole story. Think of a Quiver note as a series of separately configurable boxes (the cells) stacked from the top of a note to the bottom. When I first heard that, I wondered whether Quiver cells work like cells in a spreadsheet. But it’s at the note level where things get interesting. At the highest level, Quiver uses an organizational metaphor like Evernote, with individual notes organized into notebooks. Quiver, by Yaogang Lian of HappenApps, bills itself as programmer’s notebook, but it has evolved into much more than that. It’s a tall order and one that nobody has pulled off before to my satisfaction, which is why I was so excited to discover Quiver 3. Just as important though, the app should sort and search my notes in a manner suited to the way I work, not the way the app wants me to work. I want a tailor-made app designed from the ground up with research in mind that is lightweight and fast, even if I stuff it full of hundreds of notes with all kinds of embedded media. My ideal research app is more than just a text editor or other app that I get by with. Research is a big part of all my projects, but I’ve never found a research app that fits my needs.
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