Trunk Notes Personal Wiki Reviews

Great Tool

zukpr

This is a great tool. I've been using it for several years. I wrote a Lua script that creates a tag cloud based on tags used in certain types of pages.

Highly Recommended, Indispensable First-Screen App

illium

A Markdown-based Wiki is exactly what I’ve needed to jot down and organize my ideas, and TrunkNotes does an excellent job. I’ve used TrunkNotes for about 4 years now, and together with Things (for “To Do” lists) it’s an indispensable, first-screen app on both my iPhone and iPad. Everything I want to remember goes into TrunkNotes, from big project ideas to the kind of vacuum cleaner bags I need to buy. Adding notes and linking to pages is easy, and full text search always helps me find what I’m looking for quickly. Everything’s kept in a simple, open format that I can sync locally to and from my Mac, and one of my favorite nice touches is that TrunkNotes lets me provide my own CSS file to style my notes any way I want. (I can even style certain pages differently according to their page tags, using CSS selectors like “.tag-project”.) If you’re looking for a note-taking app for iOS, be sure to give TrunkNotes a try. It’s the best I’ve used.

Tomboy notes fans rejoice!

Stitchface killa

I've been looking for an iOS alternative to Tomboy (a note taking program on Linux) for keeping notes on the fantasy world I am creating. This is a great app for creating your own personal wiki. Linking is easy, intuitive, and I have haven't found any problems yet. This is the perfect app that I was looking for and I recommend it to any fan of Tomboy Notes. It doesn't have notebooks, which is a bit of a downside, but this is a personal wiki app and not a note taking app, so it shouldn't really be expected. It's great for creating any fantasy world for d20 games where cities, towns, characters, etc can be very hard to keep track of. I'd recommend it to anyone writing a novel as well.

Excellent one-of-a-kind app! Please make it for the Mac!!

SoCal Lady

I have used this app since day. Does everything it says in the details. Irreplaceable for organizing documents, notes...making your own personal Wiki. Please make this app for the Mac!!!!

Nearly perfect

rmihael

This app almost completely replaced Evernote for me. Less unused burden and more features I really wanted like advanced linking and scripting. Mac companion to access notes would be a huge benefit. I would like it even with manual syncing. Just saying :)

The Evernote of Mobile Wiki

Derblutenkat

I started to use this app to track best practice, tips and "how to's" when I started a full gut/remodel on my new home. Trunk Notes became my daily reference for information I had looked up/researched online. Instead of searching for bookmarked sites or re-researching certain info I simply saved the best info I found to Trunk Notes. This gave me a consistent and well organized reference that I continue to use daily. You won't find a better app for this type of organization in the App Store. With the addition of "Page Templates" to make page formatting easy and consistent throughout the app (title, body, bullets, sections) this is easily a 5 star app. Well done!

Installation problems (ios 8 version under ios 9)

Wolkenstein der Einaugig

Trunk Notes was extremely handy in the version for ios 7. Would that I could say the attempts to run the ios 8 upgrade worked on my iPad 2 (running 9.02). Upgrade wouldn't install, froze halfway, had to be deleted. Your own mileage may vary. Oh, and don't expect a fix soon. The service rep I contacted held the curious notion that my device needed a visit to the Genius Bar. So sorry, my bad and not theirs.

Epic note taking

crasshipster

This app takes notes to a new level. I had created a website to do what this app does - link to separate notes. And now it is easier to use. Exportable! Unique export options. My hard work is not trapped in the app or its structure. In total, a great concept that is well executed. A lot easier to create, access, and use than a website - which I can still use because it's exportable to HTML! I take notes for long term reference. Information. Ideas. Even lesson plans. I need connections to other things. Having links to my own stuff is so awesome! So much more useful than folders and lists of titles. There is no comparison at all. I track, build up, and add to developing topics. My notes are in groups that grow, refer to info on another note in that group and/or notes in other groups. Information that is too long, peripheral, to include and relates to several notes. Like a database. Oh, like a wiki.

One of the best daily note apps I’ve used

Bugeyegarage

This is one of the best daily note apps I’ve used. Great for keeping track of reminders and stuff. I’ve tried ‘to do lists’ ‘journal’ ‘notepad’ and ‘onenote-style’ apps before on my phone to keep organized, but in the end I’ve always had an occassional need that each category didn’t fit. This app is free-form and you can really set it up to do all of these things. Couldn’t be easier to edit and add linking pages. To the developer: ONE THING that needs to be fixed though. The Wi-Fi connection with your computer is great for adding longer text than you could reasonably type on your phone -- BUT the Wi-Fi screen eventually goes to sleep, and when it goes to sleep it kills the connection. Need to add a ‘do not go to sleep’ function (or else a do not kill the connection when it goes to sleep function) like some apps have - e.g. SleepCycle, Paprika

A Really Great App

vsupervia

The only downside I can see is that it doesn't play with Text Expander anymore (except with keyboard -- Not TE's strong suit, in my humble opinion. Markdown is a "must." It doesn't take much to pick it up, and the app supplies two or three "auto Markdown" buttons are very useful. Also, my daughter, who hates to learn anything new, fell in love with Md right from the beginning. I think she'll like TrunkNotes as well. Another nice feature (if read the app doc correctly) you can add multiple attachments to the page. Not ever iOS app works that way. I'm planning on using that feature quite a bit. I worry that when people don't quite get what they want out of a Wiki, it's because they don't get the idea of always relating one thing to another. If you keep that in mind, this App will do far more goods things than you can imagine. If you don't get it, the app will be the same mess as your "folders/Subfolders scheme-- the same mess plus the aborted learning. Don't "one star" because you couldn't any use from the effort you put into the app. It works, it's cheap, and the developer answers your questions about the app is designed to work. I've looked into these sort of apps for quite some time. They all have the same pain point: they do not do the thinking, and they only organize things the way you tell them to. The reason you want this app is because the app itself makes it easy to learn on the fly. My suggestion: if you plan to use the app for research, begin with a simple outline, and follow thru using the outline as your guide. A sample outline works just fine. Assign a page to each point in your outline and build the links in the same downward as you outline uses. E.g. Roman numeral links to points A, B, and C. And point A links to A-1, A2,A3. You only need to do this once to get the hang of easy linking. Once your Wiki is up and running, you can work on anything you want, and you won't need the outline. The point about the app is that you link one thing to another, and try hard to use linking instead of writing the same point twice and then forgetting which version is "the real one. One more linking example and then I'll shut up. When you add a contact to your Contacts App, Apple let's you start from the name, email addresses, phone numbers etc. but if you stroke number only (can't be done in the App, of course), how can you know whose name is rhe contact you are trying to call.

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