![]() ![]() Notes you create on your iPhone are saved in that folder and are available to be edited with any text application on your computer. When you start Elements for the first time, you give it your Dropbox login credentials, and it creates that folder. Elements syncs to an “Elements” folder in your Dropbox folder. I’ve never heard anyone say that Simplenote’s API throttling interfered with syncing. But lots of people do use the NV option to get Dropbox syncing with Simplenote and they love it. I prefer having just one text editor (TextMate) running all the time, so the NV syncing has never appealed to me. If you’re an NV user, you’re probably doing this anyway. This option pretty much forces you to run Notational Velocity all the time to get automatic syncing. If you choose that folder to be one within your Dropbox folder, you now have Dropbox syncing with Simplenote. Both the standard NV and its most famous fork, nvAlt, make periodic calls to the Simplenote API to sync the notes with a folder of your choice on your computer. The most common, on a Mac, at least, is to use Notational Velocity. This is a fairly new feature, and I have no experience with it.īecause of Simplenote’s API, there are ways to get Dropbox syncing without a Premium account. Now, with a Premium account, you can sync your notes to your Dropbox account, where they’re available to be viewed and edited in any text application on your computer. Before Simplenote published its API and before there was a Premium service, this was the only way to get at your notes from your computer. The notes can be viewed and edited through your web browser by going to and signing in with a username and password. Simplenote has its own syncing system, which I’ll call native syncing, that backs your note up to Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service. Dropbox syncing is the primary reason I switched from Simplenote to Elements. This is an area where the differences between the apps can be huge. As with Elements, this is the price for the app with all its features. An in-app purchase option will remove the ads for $4.99. The ads vanish when the keyboard appears for editing. PlainText is free, but has ads that remain at the bottom of the screen in both List view and Note view. Buy Elements and you get all the features. We’ll discuss that in the Syncing section. ![]() It seems to me that the most important of the Premium features is the Dropbox syncing, but there is, famously, a way to get Dropbox syncing via the API without a Premium account. I had a Premium subscription last year- I won it in a contest-but that was before some of these features were available, so I can’t speak authoritatively on their value. Allows notes to be edited in List view.Simplenote has an API associated with its native syncing system, and calls to the API are throttled unless you have a Premium subscription. This applies to Simplenote’s own syncing system, not the Dropbox sync. Increases the number of backups of each note from 10 to 30.I’ll discuss this more in the Syncing section below. Simplenote’s ads appear at the top of the notes list and can be scrolled off screen, which isn’t all that obtrusive, but a Premium subscription removes them entirely. A Premium subscription does several things: Simplenote is free, but there’s an in-app Premium upgrade option that costs $20 per year. None of these apps are particularly expensive, but in-app purchases can make the cost different from what you see in the App Store. I just wrote a similar post looking at the features of Notesy, which has taken over from Elements as my main note-taker. ![]()
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