Portable Notebooks

Portable Notebooks is a great tool for research sessions, providing you with an all-in-one text editor, a note-taking tool, a to-do list creator, an HTML editor, and a Markdown, text processor. It enables you to store all your notes, annotations and documents in a single place, enabling you to share entries with other devices (iPad or iPhone) via Dropbox or a WebDAV service.

Its interface is split into three different sections, one for managing books (which are, in fact, categories of documents), the second for viewing a list of the items inside each book, and the third for previewing the document's content. Each of these panels can be optionally hidden.

You can create multiple books and organize notes as you consider fit, edit, duplicate or erase entries, and assign them color label for easier identification. Batch formatting options enable you to customize the font style, text color, background pattern and color, and the document style for all the documents and notes in a book, with a single click.

Portable Notebooks can work with plain text files, as well as formatted documents. The built-in text editor is very intuitive, delivering standard formatting and indentation tools, alongside options to insert images, links, HTML code snippets, or horizontal lines into the document. The HTML code for each book is automatically generated, so you can easily embed it into a webpage.

Moreover, the editor can handle Markdown documents, so you can easily convert simple documents into HTML ones.

Alternatively, you can use it as a task list manager to keep track of your to-dos and project assignments, ticking the completed ones.

Portable Notebooks can become a repository for all your stories, notes, ideas, drafts, and task lists, where you can organize all items and create new documents in a user-friendly writing environment. And since it is portable, you can launch it directly from a removable device, without leaving traces on the host system.

What would add to its value even more are some options that some users surely find useful, such as document importing and exporting options (for instance, to PDF or DOC format), or password protection and encryption capabilities, so that users can sketch their ideas and write down daily thoughts with no worries.