Love to see this out there, but it seems to suffer from the same visual clutter that I believe Evernote does. I love the OCR technology of Evernote, but I have the hardest time with it as a writing environment. Does anyone know of a nice, clean note taking environment for Mac that still supports links between notes and the occasional image?
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You're looking for Notational Velocity. It's free, open source, minimalistic, keyboard-centric, and extremely fast. I use it all day, every day.
http://notational.net/screenshots.html
It doesn't quite do images, since it's text only. nvALT is a fork of the project with extra features. Its image support might fit your needs: http://brettterpstra.com/2012/09/27/quick-tip-images-in-nval...
My life depends on Notational Velocity. It's the fastest note taking system I've ever used. The killer feature is the ability to go from search to edit instantly. It's so good, that I'd consider buying a Mac only because of it. I recommend NValt, a more updated fork.
Notational is so badass. I'm going to give OneNote a hard look when I have some time but I'm so used to Notational that I might just stick with it. I would like to see some additional formatting options in NV but the speed and UX are unbeatable.
Thanks for this. I'm only a few weeks in on OSX and nvALT is just what I was looking for. I also hooked it up with iA Writer, which is only $5 at the moment.
I was looking for a personal wiki-type thing on OSX, but this is a fantastic set-up for me.
There are a couple that I can think of that are in the same kind of vein as OneNote:
- Growly Notes, (free) which actually partly emulates how OneNote works: http://growlybird.com/notes/index.html
- Circus Ponies Notebook, (paid, $50) which is very different from OneNote but is a good note taking environment and is quite clean and has some good features
- And if you really need some insane power: Curio, (paid, $100) where the basic concept is to emulate the power of a whiteboard. It includes things like mindmaps, tables, linking between boards, etc. The features list is insane.
Try View --> Full Page View. That hides the Notebooks, Sections and Pages and shows only the current page.