NoteTaker is a very useful program. I use it every day and it works reasonably well. I use it to keep and organize all different kinds of information. I have one notebook voor computer notes and other books for the projects on which I work. The features that I like most are the notebook metaphor, the drawer, outlining, flexibility and customizability, internal hyper links, and the clipping service.

Having said this, I should add that NoteTaker is not as good for my purposes as I should like. The indexing features are way below what is expected of this kind of program and the outlining features are of mixed quality.

NoteTaker has a nice X-ray feature which shows you the context of the indexed words. However, the use of this feature is severely impeded by the fact that if a word appears more than one time on a page, or if it appears on two or more adjacent pages it is listed only once. The program doesn't allow you to add multiple keywords to an item and doesn't let you highlight words and index them.

The outlining features are better than those of Omni Outliner but not as good as those of More. NoteTaker supports many basic outlining functions as well as the advanced 'hoist' function. It does not clone though, which is an ommision in this kind of software. There are separate functions to add a sibling or a child; a great improvement in comparison to Omni and More in which the one function 'new item' confusingly adds a sibling or child depending on the context! Another nice feature is the 'paste as outline' option which makes different entries for the different lines in the clipboard.

The implementation of some of the basic outlining functions is confusing. The most basic action (add a sibling entry) is done with the enter key. This is not documented and this option is not in the menu. The keyboard command 'add a child' (ctrl-return) is documented, but it is also not in the menu. There are functions called 'new entry' (cmd-return) and 'new entry above' (cmd-enter) but these functions split the entry rather than add new ones (these splitting functions are very useful, by the way). There is little or no logic in the keyboard shortcuts for these functions.

There is no satisfactory keyboard shortcuts to increase (indent) the nesting level of an entry. The preferences give you the option to use the tab key to indent the entry, but this only works if the ruler is disabled.

The following basic functions are lacking:
- split an entry such that its tail becomes a child
- combine entries
- add a sibling above (without splitting)
- add an aunt under (without splitting)

Another serious problem is the inability to move a group of selected entries.

In addition, NoteTaker lacks More's promote and demote options which respectively make all lower siblings children and make all children lower siblings.