I know there's been a lot of stink from folks about this product, but I've not had a bad experience. I did opt to buy StickyBrain 4 (when it was still a product) instead of SOHO Notes, but recently that product has been dropped and I was given a free upgrade to SOHO notes.

To start off with, there are features in SOHO Notes that I wanted in StickyBrain, such as the ability to print a web archive or view a pdf in preview (instead of in SOHO Notes). I've not experienced any problems with data loss either, however, I think it is a big mistake for the developer's to store the database *outside* of the user's home folder because A) it does not get backed up with my daily backups and B) there's no logical reason for it to be there (other than the fact that it seems their DB engine requires it).

In fact, I'm not at all crazy that files are stored in a database...I'd much rather have SOHO Notes mirror a folder on my HD so that A) I can view any of the files in the finder and B) if I ever stop using this product, I won't have to export anything.

I'm dropping my review 1 star for the shady database implementation.

That said, syncing the database folder along with my user folder during my twice daily Desktop <-> Laptop sync has worked just fine and I'm able to edit notes on both machines and the changes are copied correctly.