When comparing VoodooPad 5 vs Trilium Notes, the Slant community recommends Trilium Notes for most people. In the question“What is the best single-user wiki?” Trilium Notes is ranked 6th while VoodooPad 5 is ranked 13th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro A desktop wiki
VoodooPad 5 is focused on use by an individual. It is a mature application. Its polished refinements are based upon many years of user experiences and feedback.
Pro Markdown support
You can use Markdown syntax to write your documents.
Pro Good task management features
Within the collections palette you'll find "to-dos" that are all @todo entries that you've left across all of your pages.
Pro Synchronize via Dropbox
You can utilize Dropbox to keep VoodooPad synchronized across all of your devices and allow for collaboration with other people.
Pro Java scriptlet & Event scripts support
To dynamically change HTML, ePub and PDF exports you can use Java scriptlets. To extend the functionality of VoodooPad you can use Event scripts.
Pro Export to ePub and PDF
Alongside being able to export a page as HTML, RTFD, Plain Text, or as a Word Document, you can export the whole document as XML, RTFD, Plain Text, .doc, ePub, PDF or to an iOS device via VP Reader.
Pro Collections palette
Collections allow creating an organizational structure of your pages.
Pro Note encryption
Pro Free and open source software
Pro Excellent WYSIWYG interface
Pro Attributes that can be assigned to nodes and inherited
Pro Graph of node connectivity
Pro Note versioning
Pro Synchronization with a server
You can set up synchronization but you need a server to do this.
Pro Database storage rather than files
This enables the tool to do a lot of things that would be difficult with plain text file storage.
Pro Archival functionality
Cons
Con OS X only
There are no Windows or Linux versions of VoodooPad.
Con Costs $24.99 USD
Price can be found here: http://www.voodoopad.com/
Con Breaks compatibility with VoodooPad 4
VoodooPad 5 uses a new file format that is not backwards compatible.
Con Interface can be confusing
There is a fair amount of flexibility to the interface but it can also become confusing, especially when some parts are not necessarily simple to use. Most of the basic features nevertheless are intuitive.
Con Database storage rather than files
This makes it a little less simple to work with (also has benefits).
Con Not markdown
It will import and export markdown but it does not store content as markdown. This isn't necessarily a problem if you don't need it.
Con Synchronization requires use of Trilium's sync server
This can be problematic to set up unless you have a web server that will support the requirements of this.
