What’s Great is Great, What’s Bad is Tolerable (so far)

First — Alternote’s interface is just about 100% what Evernote’s should be, especially on Mac (and probably even with newer versions of Windows at this point).
Its clean, and its generally nice to use. I can’t give props enough the the developer on this point and Im really looking forward to the future of this product.

That said, here are some lists:

Good:
• Performance is good (when it’s not crashing), though I have a library thats less than 1000 notes and with a fair amount of images.
• Alternote makes the interface a bit more like Notes.app for Mac but with added functionality, including more useful shortcuts than either Evernote or Notes.
• Importantly, it omits or hides the many "features" Evernote has added to their desktop application over the years.
• Particularly useful is Alternotes version of "Jump to…," where it matches for all types of data instead of just Notebooks (and does so quickly in my case).

Not Good:
• It crashes somewhat frequently. It hasn’t crashed for me in the middle of typing or modifying a note, but it’s still disconcerting. As a *guess,* I think it has to do with synchronization after inserting a series of images.

Nit-Picks:
• Images cant be pasted into Alternote from the clipboard, where they can in Evernote.
• I cant seem to drag in more than one image at a time, where I could in Evernote.
• Alternote doesnt fit previously imported images to window width without some finagling (e.g. place insertion point before image, press delete, then return — it snaps to fit window afte that). It does scale images that were imported using Alternote according to window size, so there’s that.
• It doesnt have a standard help menu. As in, I cant use the help menu to search for menu items. I have a workaround using an Alfred Workflow, but using the help search as a sort of Spotlight for menu items is pretty much ingrained in me on Mac.
• H1-3 sizes are too big, and (seemingly?) non-adjustable.
• Unless I’m missing something, The number of default fonts is limited and there is no advanced setting for more options.

J.D. Brown about Alternote the Note-taking App