Adventures with Notenik

From the beginning (back at the beginning of this century) my interest in making content for the Web has run to creating something book-like, rather than a blog or some other form.

I've tried maintaining a personal blog in the past, but the practice has never stuck with me.

A few years ago I came across a really good book by Steve Lohr with a mouthful of a title: Go To: The Story Of The Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Scientists And Iconoclasts Who Were The Hero Programmers Of The Software Revolution.

There are a number of technology priorities for me when I consider how to store notes that I take.

One of the things I use Notenik for is to maintain a list of my favorite quotations.

Version 16.5.0 of Notenik adds support for custom Starter Packs.

The 16.4.0 version of Notenik makes it a little easier to use Notenik as a Mac application launcher.

Sometimes it's hard to figure out what makes Notenik different from all the other note-taking, Markdown-parsing, text-file-wrangling apps out there.

After publishing the Guide to Creating a Website using Notenik in October of last year, one of Notenik's longtime users published a list of links that might be helpful to website creators.

Notenik version 16.0.0 is out, just in time for the holidays!

Notenik version 15.9.0 is now available from the Mac App Store, and is chock full of improvements (including a few fixes).

A Notenik user recently turned me on to a great web book, HTML for People, authored by Blake Watson.

Notenik tries to follow Alan Kay's dictum that "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible," and this is nowhere more evident than in the many possible uses of the Seq field.

My original personal — and still most important — Notenik use case is website creation.

I awoke the other morning to see that Notenik had received a nice review from Lou Plummer on his AppAddict page.

Anyone who's been seriously collecting quotations for any length of time knows that many casual quotation sites offer lots of "feel good" quotations that are often attributed to a particular author, without identifying the precise source of the quotation.

Notenik recognizes and supports several different file formats, including MultiMarkdown with its metadata, as well as Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

I've had more than one user stumble across Notenik, try it out, and then ask "How have I not come across this before?"

David Brooks had a good column in the NY Times yesterday: "The Junkification of American Life."