Review: Bluenote a secure alternative to OS X's Notes
As a place for written notes, to-do lists, and passwords, the $2 Bluenote (Mac App Store link) is nowhere near as robust as an app like Evernote (). But if you’re always using OS X’s Notes app and you’d like an app with a basic security feature, Bluenote could be what you need.
Bluenote’s most important feature is that it requires a password every time you use it. The data stored in Bluenote and the backups of your Bluenote data are encrypted, according to the developer. If you lose your password, Bluenote can’t recover it; you have to reset the app (instructions are on the developer’s website) and then restore your data using a backup.
Bluenote can store its data to Dropbox so you can use Bluenote on other Macs and have access to the same data. But the developer doesn’t have an iOS app, so you can’t access your Bluenote information on your iPhone or iPad.
Notes
The only thing you can really do with any notes you’ve written in Bluenote is stylize the text with a few basic formats: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and list. You can’t add images or use Web links, limitations that prevent Bluenote from being a place for storing research or detailed notes (you can use images and paste in links in OS X’s Notes, though I still won’t use Notes for research).
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