Notilo

Organizing all your thoughts and ideas with a busy schedule can be a bit of a hassle, but if your work implies using the computer often enough, there are tons of applications out there like Notilo you can use in this regard. The simple interface gives you a kickstart, while the variety of features can blend to your needs.

Probably the application’s biggest advantage is portability, skipping you the time and effort needed to go through a setup process. There’s more than that, and since it was built to run on the Java Runtime Environment, it can also be used on different operating system. Another perk of portability is that system registry entries are kept intact during use.

The visual design might not be able to win a beauty contest, but this simplicity allows individuals of all levels of experience to quickly get acquainted with all it has to offer. A side navigation panel lets you easily browse through all entries, create new ones, or manage existing, while the rest of the space is the editable text pad.

Every new project is stored as a book, and saved to files, allowing you to take them along with the application. Moreover, a book can be fitted with sibling, and child items. These can later be arranged, but this needs to be done through dedicated controls, because drag and drop has no effect here.

As far as text editing is concerned, you’re limited to the provided pad, because of the lack of support for any external files. There isn’t even an option to export text as plain text files. What’s more, customization options are missing entirely, and only the title row is under the bold attribute.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Notilo leaves more to be desired, especially because of the lack of support for working with external files. Customization is not among the features you benefit from, while navigation, and creation of books, and pages can get a little frustrating at times.