Comments on: Taking Notes in WordPress

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:31:18 +0000

When this was written in 2005, WordPress.com was in its infancy, a few months old. Post via email was not working consistently, though it was an early feature of WordPress, and post via email, embed codes, shortcodes, all these things were still in the future. Today we have many options, including taking notes outside of WordPress, via social media, bookmarking tools, mobile apps, etc.

It’s amazing to live in a time where we have so many choices now. I love it.

By: bgibson

bgibson — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:15:47 +0000

With a free WordPress.com site, you can “post via email” and “post via voice” (phone call). There are “embed codes” that you can add to your email postings to set as draft, private, by category, etc. So, I’m not sure you still need a special plugin, but just need to take advantage of the WP basics. With any device that I can create an email, I can create a WP post. My Android phone will allow me to take one or more photos, and attach them to the email posting. Even if I don’t have WIFI access, most devices that allow email creation will save the email(s) until you are connected to the Internet again, and then automatically send them. So, I could take notes in class, via email, on my iPad or Chromebook and they could post later when I have WIFI. I could take a picture of notes on a whiteboard and add them to my post. If I add one or more “categories” to my post (add “cat” embed code) then I can automatically view the RSS feed for each category. A category might be a course ID. I can also take advantage of the WP “Search” function to track down items in my notes, if I can’t find it by chronological order. Oh, if my WP site is unavailable, many email programs will keep a copy of “Sent” emails, so I would have a backup copy of my email postings.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:46:20 +0000

Great! Thanks for letting me know.

By: Dave Albright

Dave Albright — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:45:30 +0000

Thank You Lorelle, Great updated use and software Recommendations. I'm tinkering around with them! Originally i needed to keep track of strategy ideas and pending posts for a client site. I decided to keep the organization encapsulated in the site to eliminate the obligation and clutter of keeping the information on my local machine. (Of course this needs to be done with consideration of circumstances.) I like the idea of compartmentalizing client projects on the client's site. I got it worked out with a dashboard notes app for WordPress: Simple Admin Notes WordPress Plugin and Peter's Post Notes WordPress Plugin.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:44:12 +0000

Thank you for the kind words. I do not know of a current mousetrap for taking notes in WordPress. This was a unique WordPress Plugin, one that could have many uses but today, most people write directly into WordPress and save as Draft, or do as I do and type all my notes in a Text Editor, from which I massage the content into articles. I can't survive without NoteTab Pro for this process, though I am learning Scrivner but it isn't the same. It does help to convert thoughts into clear ideas into content, but my NoteTab Pro text editor is my blogging life saver.

By: Dave Albright

Dave Albright — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:08:33 +0000

Lorelle,

Thank you for the great blogging and podcsting on WordPress it’s helped me and countless others immensely for years! Has it been since 2004? what a journey!

Question about this post:
Do you have any new incarnations of this tool, a 2012 mousetrap?
The links go to Chris’s plugin download page and the download link on that page goes to a 404.

Great post, i’m dreaming of all those great features! Thanks again.

Dave

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:13:47 +0000

Which link?

By: anjali

anjali — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:12:34 +0000

The link is not working can you provide me alternate link.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:36:53 +0000

Dash Note is a WordPress Plugin, so how they know that Plugin has malware, I don't know. I'm a long time fan of MaxPower, so I can't imagine there is anything wrong with it. However, I have found all of these to be ineffective for my personal needs. I explain my uses of an inexpensive text editor to keep my notes and all together in Newsletter to Blog: Blogger’s Friend - The Text Editor and Blog Struggles: Ideas and Drafts.

By: drew3000

drew3000 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:45:06 +0000

Was checking around about Dash Note, which is at Maxpower.ca. the maxpower site, or so StopBadWare.org tells me, contains malware of some sort. Anyone have problems with thier computers after going there via the link above? I’m looking for a decent note making tool and that one comes up here and there.