Eye on the World

I have been using VoodooPad for almost all of my casual and technical writing. It replaces and improves upon my piles and stacks of three-ring notepads filled with notes about everything.

I keep pads with lists of todo items, pads with information for dealing with Unix features, pads with notes about compositions I am working on, pads listing my favorite patches on each synth and what controllers they use, pads of notes of things that people have told me, schedules and more.

VoodooPad is like a notebook which allows you to create Wiki-style hyperlinks between pages. This makes it very easy to organize information: once you have several paragraphs about some topic, you can make the section title be a link and put all the text on its own separate page that is linked to from the first.

You can also add links to folders on your system by simply dragging and dropping, you can add photos and drawings, you can add links to web sites. All links are clickable and open the folder or file or web address that they link to. So VoodooPad can even be used to organize related files on your computer instead of messing with making aliases or moving files around.

There are many other features. The $25 full version has all the bells and whistles, or you can try the free VoodooPad Lite version that does everything I have mentioned here in this review. I recommend you try it and see and you'll find you will use it daily to keep track of everything. The full version is reasonably priced, given how much more organized I now am, and how it's been a long time since I've bought a new paper notebook.