![]() I decided that Joplin was the closest thing to Quiver in terms of features and even had some advantages over it, like a truly functional mobile app. It was the app I recommended to my Windows friends (yes, I have a few) as Quiver is a Mac-only app. So I searched for alternatives and found Joplin, which I’d seen and even tried out once in the past. Quiver, showing a note in Markdown and a preview of the same Enter Joplin If this disappearing note thing is a real issue, there’s no telling how long it will take for him to fix it. Quiver hasn’t been updated in a long while. I was relieved, but I also realized it was time to move on. After the initial shock of it, I had the presence of mind to check the same entires using Quiver installed on my 2017 MacBook Air, which is running the older macOS Catalina, 10.15.7. Their titles still existed, but the contents of the notes were blank. Many notes were blank, and I wasn’t sure why. But it gave me a scare a few days ago on my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro, which is running macOS Big Sur, 11.4. ![]() I had been using Quiver, a relatively unknown application from a one-person development team called Happen Apps for years now. They are like a well organized attic or file drawer, but one that’s easily searchable. ![]() They are easily searchable repositories for all matter of data you might need in the future, and that you’ll lose otherwise. But they’re especially useful for those little bits of information that you need to be able to find later but that don’t seem to fit anywhere else. They’re fine for note taking and plans of all sorts. ![]() But note-taking itself isn’t really the point (or, at least, the entire point). It’s perplexing that there isn’t even a good name for this category of software. Lots of people have a Word document or a spreadsheet somewhere, but specialized software does a better job of storing, organizing and–most importantly–finding such things. For years now, I’ve kept a lot of useful information–the sort of stuff I used to jot down on a Post-it note and lose–in software fit for the purpose. ![]()
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