Trunk Notes

I was hoping this would be a simple notebook for creative writing. Unlike a school or business notebook where projects are typically linear, creative writing is all over the place. It’s tough to keep track hard of all the snippets of conversation and plot twists that jump into your head in the middle of the night or while cooking spaghetti. I wanted a place to jot ideas and quickly find/ move/organize later. I thought I’d be able to set up search words, for example and the app would group them together. So, by touching a word in my list of pre defined words, I see all Pages containing that word. A page containing both #magic and #dialogue would of course be in both groups.<br/><br/>This is not that. Trunk notes requires a markdown and brackets and a whole lot of other formatting but I guess it’s useful if you’re trying to create your website but I spend more time formatting in writing. There must be an app with the features I described above but that description is too long for a search engine and I don’t know the buzz word for it. (Hashtag search)?

I created a page on iPad and later attempted to edit it on iPhone. It just keeps reverting.<br/><br/>Dropbox sync is set to automatic.

I like the app. It’s useful. The markdown works well and it makes sense for me to use a wiki. My biggest challenge is that the only place I can use it is on my iPhone or my iPad. I am all over when it comes to platforms. The dropbox integration is nice and necessary when going between my Apple mobile devices. However, I have had to decide if I really wanted to invest my time and effort putting things in an app that I can only use on Apple mobile devices and for me the answer was no. I also use a lot of Windows, a little android, some Linux, etc. and not having full wiki readability on at least on Windows is a deal breaker for me. I opted to set up my own personal wiki in the cloud, it’s available to me everywhere I’m connected, I can easily extend it, and it’s been working great. Even transformational. If all you need is access on a mobile device you take with you all the time - this will work great. For me I needed more platform support so I’m giving it 3 stars. No android support, no cloud support, no windows support, not even mac support...but 3 stars because it does work for what it does on Apple mobile devices and at least you can sync your iPads and iPhones via Dropbox.

Like this App -- only took minutes to figure out how to use. After a week I'm &gt;100 pages into a comprehensive Wiki to (finally) organize and track my personal Science Fiction reading (e.g., wiki pages by author, book, series). Some &quot;keep it simple&quot; consequences, e.g., WikiWord's (to name wiki pages) are a bit clumsy (e.g., superfluous underscore req'd for JohnW_Campbell).

For my purposes, this is the best note taking app in the App Store. It isn't the prettiest, but it is far more flexible than any other app I have found. You can easily organize your notes by linking one note to another or by assigning topics (called tags) to a note. You can search all of your note for a given tag or set of tags and display them. You can call up notes by date, or by most recently edited or created.<br/><br/>The app is also scriptable. You can define your own master style. You can define keyboard shortcuts. If you program, you can even script the app with the built in Lua scripting language.<br/><br/>If you need a plain-vanilla note taking app, there are many that will do the job. If you need to take and organize a large number of notes, or need to do anything nonstandard, though, this is the app for you.

I’ve been using Trunk Notes for years, and I love it. The Lua support is especially appreciated.<br/><br/>You merged a wiki with Lua on mobile devices, and those of us who “got it”... we thank you.<br/><br/>It’s sad to see development come to an end. Telling us as much in the most recent update notes (as of today) was a thoughtful thing to do. Many apps are abandoned, and by the time we learn, it’s too late to figure out how to save our data.<br/><br/>Happy trails, and I hope you have more ideas that show up in this store :)

This was the best personal wiki app on iOS, and it's so close to getting back there. Dropbox document sync is cumbersome, and there's no sync support for iCloud drive. Markdown Extra-style footnotes not only don't work, but the preview crops the actual footnote out (it should at least leave them as plaintext). Many other Markdown editors support footnotes, and it's unfortunate that Trunk Notes still doesn't. <br/><br/>Some easy way to publish the whole set of documents, or individual files, in HTML, to the web would be fantastic, as would better inter-app communication to share documents back and forth.<br/><br/>The Lua scripting is fantastic, and very welcome. It reminds me of the old Mac OS X Voodoopad. Hopefully this app keeps seeing updates and new features.

There are a handful of apps that I can't live without and this is one of them. In fact, this is the lone app that keeps me on iOS. <br/><br/>I keep everything in trunk notes. I tried Evernote, but I hate having my data in the cloud. I love that my data is local, yet synchs between my devices with Dropbox.<br/><br/>I wish apple would make this app one of the app of the week apps so everyone could find out how awesome it is.