App Profile: Nodebook - Organize Your Ideas

Apps-junkie

Rating: 5/5

Tested on iPhone 4.1. Most of the problems other reviewers have had could be solved if a short tutorial or help file were included in the App. You can move rows when you click on "edit". The thin"down arrow" button does do something - it takes you to the bottom of the outline. Save worked for me. Exported the file, but did not have an app on my iphone that can import OPML & read the file properly (or easily). $1.99 is too much for the additional functions or features. Needs more features or capabilities. But, now that I have an IPad, I can send the OPML by email from my iphone and open it on my iPad. I also found other apps that can use the data. When I first downloaded the app, I was hoping that each new outline that you created (or each new note you wrote) would not be a separate page and each page of notes or outlines was tabbed. It would be good, if a app out there would work by clicking a tab and you would bring up a new outline or tree of notes. This is closer to the idea of a "node" which is a network structure not a simple linear tree or hierarchy structure.

Bigwj

Rating: 5/5

This app is the best opml reader i have come across and i have spent probably $50 trying to find the best one. I wish I had tried this one first. If you are like me and wish you could reader your omnioutlines on your phone this is the app for you. You can just export from omnioutline to dropbox as an opml and open it in the app. The best feature of this app is the ability to isolate sections of the outline for viewing. This is awesome if your outline has a deep hierarchy. In other apps, if your outline goes deeper than 3 or 4 levels the text will be indented so far as to have like one word per line, which is absolutely unreadable. In nodebook you click the little arrow next to the subsection you want to isolate and you can view it like it is the entire outline. Awesome.

DenNukem

Rating: 4/5

So, this is an outliner program, that in the current version lets you import OPML files form email and export them to email. iTunes import didn't work for me. It works as advertised, but has limited utility - each outline only has a title and nothing else (no checkbox etc). I guess it could be fun if you like outlining strings of text? To elaborate: the app allows you to expand/collapse the outlines, restrict view to a sub-tree, move the outlines around the tree, delete them, create new outlines, import an OPML from email to any point within the tree and export any subtree as OPML via email. It's just that I'm not sure what to do with it. By the way, the mysterious button "down-arrow" scrolls current screen all the way to the end. Took me a while to figure it out. :)