Flashnote Keeps Your Notes Organized, Simple, and Effortless

I use Microsoft OneNote to take notes and keep myself organized throughout the day. In fact, it's almost always running, ready to consume whatever thought wanders across my mind. I recently found a lightweight, crazy-simple alternative, though, which looks perfect for anyone that wants immediate access to a simple note-taking app in the System Tray. Flashnote is as if someone upgraded Notepad into an outlining tool.

Flashnote lives in the System Tray, read to leap into action whenever you need it with a click or keyboard shortcut. Its two-pane window lets you take free-form notes or write text-only documents on the right, while organizing your writing into nested outlines on the left. New outline nodes are labeled with a time/date stamp, but you can rename them to taste.

The program autosaves your work, and you can customize the font and background color for better readability. And, of course, it's free. If you spend a lot of time taking notes or writing drafts of text to fine-tune later, you owe it to yourself to give Flashnote a try. [via Cybernet News]