Useful Service: AppendNote 1.0

Dan Frakes, over at MacWorld's Mac Gems weblog has a post extolling the virtues of AppendNote 1.0. I have to say, it looks pretty cool. It's free and lets you grab text from any Services capable programs out there. The text is automatically added to a Notes.txt file stored in the root directory of your Home folder. This is good, because it is a basic no frills text database that you can read on any computer. To install the Service, you just have to drop it into either /Library/Services/ or ~/Library/Services/ and then log out and back in.

The developer notes the reasons behind coding this useful little app: "The existing notepad programs all had too many features or were too complex for my needs. I didn't want to be locked into a particular program for keeping notes. I had an afternoon at work with not much to do." Now if only every program would support Services.