Notes/Info Organizer Apps

Character profiles. Location profiles. Lists of themes. Outlines. That map you sketched out for your small little world. That pic of that movie star you want to play your hero when the movie comes out. That song that will play as background music. Planning a novel can be very involved with lots of little bits of info from everywhere and it’d be nice to have a way to organize it all.

I’m talking about software that can organize and categorize stuff. Text is an absolute must. But if they support other media such as PDFs and images and audio, then that’s even better.

I’m listing OS X apps because that’s what I know, but if you can rec another — whether OS X, Windows, Linux and etc — then go ahead, I’m sure lots of people are always looking for ways to organize their stuff.

Circus Ponies Notebook ($49.95 standard, $29.95 academic, $99.95 family, upgrade pricing available): Meant to replace physical notebooks and has a nifty to-do feature.

DevonThink ($149.95 pro office, $79.95 pro and $49.95 personal) and ($24.95): DevonThink Pro Office is mother of all organizers, it can store just about anything you throw at it and has an AI engine to help you make sense of it all. If that’s too much for you, there’s a range of apps for different needs.

Mori ($39.95): Fairly basic and easy, if you took Scrivener’s research folder and stripped it of all the features that make it Scrivener, you’d get Mori.

MyNotes ($24.95): Text only and very basic. If you need multiple levels of organization and support for images and PDFs and etc, Mori might be a better choice. But MyNotes has a live word count.

Yojimbo ($39 personal, $29 educational and $69 family): If you like to organize stuff by type as well as by subject, this might fit.

All prices in USD.
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