Auer Notes
I have been helping a friend test his app, an awesome and simple app called Auer Notes, for the past several weeks.
![Auer Notes](/images/auernotes.png)
Auer Notes is a plain text, simple, and private note taking app for Mac, with a Linux and Windows version in the making. The reason I like it a lot is because it really blends smoothly with the way I work. As I wrote in Setup and Tools, one of my main everyday tools is a good note taking app. Auer Notes gives me something that Apple Notes hasn’t given me so far: a way to save my notes in plain text, and like my own apps, locally.
He and I share similar thoughts about simple software and how we should strive for light processes and interfaces. So, in that light, I have to say that Auer Notes doesn’t have a lot of features. In fact, it lacks most of the features you would get with an app like Apple Notes. However, after a few weeks of working with it almost exclusively, I found myself not needing any more features aside from the ones given.
The app gives you a simple interface, where you can create notes, search them, and save them locally on your drive, in a place of your choice. You can choose to sync the notes via a service, or not, it’s up to you. And, if for whatever reason, the app stops working, stops being developed, or whatever, the data remains yours, in plain text. Ready to be opened by any other app.
![Auer Notes](/images/auernotesfull.png)
There is an alpha version available for download right now. It’s still not a completed app, but I’ve been using it for my notes for 10 days already. It’s been great.
Highly recommeded.