Alepin isn't free like some notebook software, but it also isn't expensive at $10. It doesn't have some of the extra gadgets of the expensive ones, but it supports Services and it works well as a notebook application that's easy to learn. It has quick find (this page) and search (this document), an interesting time-saving distinction. Alepin supports a hierarchy of notes (but no tags), import of text or RTFD, export to RTFD, and multiple files. All of those are necessary features to get on my good software list.
At this point, you're wondering why I like Alepin the best for notebook software since none of those good points are that distinctive. It has the easiest recovery! Of all of the notebook software I've looked at, Alepin was the only one where I could open the data file package and easily recover most of the information I had entered by hand. All of your notebook pages are saved as RTFD inside the alpn document package ... and the filename is the page name! In the worst case, you would lose your folder hierarchy, but you would have all of your data and the search button. All of the other applications used package component file names that would need translation during recovery, putting you one step farther away from reassembly, depending on what data were corrupted.
I wouldn't mind if Alepin supported tags and Spotlight, or if it maintained the document folders within the package for even easier recovery, but it is a great notebook application. Just think, you could collect all of your text notes, text clippings, picture clippings, and other assorted notes into one searchable Alepin notebook!
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