Organize your notes into folders and sub-folders. You can create as many folders and sub-folders as you'd like. Plus, you can assign a different icon to each folder for easier identification. You can view your folder hierarchy in either a large or small size.

TIP. Notes can be assigned to more than one folder at the same time for maximum organization flexibility.

Use Smart Folders to display notes that are stored in other folders that match specific criteria you have defined. For example, you can create a Smart Folder that will display all the notes that have been flagged or have the word “Vacation” in them. Smart Folders are a quick and easy way to group related notes scattered across multiple folders into a single location without having to physically move the notes into a single folder.

Assign tags to your notes so you can later search and find notes by tag. SOHO Notes keeps track of the tags you use so it can auto-complete the tags for you the next time you enter one.

Create relationships between notes by linking related notes to one another. Links can be created via simple drag and drop. When you select a note in the viewer window, any notes linked to that note will be highlighted in a special color to visually indicate the relationship.

An all-new Note Viewer lets you open multiple notes in tabs just like Safari. This means you can simultaneously work on multiple notes in a single window saving precious screen real-estate. Plus, you can have different search results displayed in each tab along with different folder selections.

The Note Viewer window contains a summary column that displays a brief summary for each listed note to help you quickly identify the note you're looking for. The Summary column is particularly useful when performing searches since it shows the search terms in bold so you can quickly see the context of your search results without manually flipping through each note—a real time-saver.

Form notes are used to store and display information that you have entered into forms that you define. For example, you can define a “Credit Card” form to keep track of the information for all your credit cards. It might have fields on the form like “Card Name”, “Card Number”, “Expiration Date”, and “Customer Service Phone Number”.

You can mark a note as private if you wish to keep its contents confidential (passwords, account numbers, etc). The contents of private notes are automatically encrypted using the Advanced Encryption Standard (US FIPS PUB 197) algorithm with a 256-bit key (AES-256). In June 2003, the US Goverment announced that AES may be used for classified information:
“The design and strength of all key lengths of the AES algorithm (i.e., 128, 192 and 256) are sufficient to protect classified information up to the SECRET level. TOP SECRET information will require use of either the 192 or 256 key lengths. The implementation of AES in products intended to protect national security systems and/or information must be reviewed and certified by NSA prior to their acquisition and use.”— Committee on National Security Systems

SOHO Notes comes with a broad collection of icons that you can use to help give your folders an identity. Now you can also assign your own graphics like a company logo or photo to your folders.

Not all notes are created equal. SOHO Notes caters to your different objectives by offering a wide assortment of note environments. Choose from three different window types: Wrap To Window, Wrap To Page, and Sticky. Assign a background color, texture, or picture to any note. You can even make a note float above all other windows on the screen including windows from other applications. Plus, you can assign any of ten transparency levels to a note for just the right effect.

SOHO Notes lets you establish relationships between notes and almost any other resource—not just other notes and contacts. Its powerful hyperlink feature lets you select some text in a note and then hyperlink it to a web address, ftp address, email address, file on your computer, etc. Once a hyperlink is established, you can click the link to access the corresponding resource.

Insert a calendar for any month into a note to assist you with short or long term planning, as a reference for an upcoming quarter, etc. Calendars come in extra large, large, medium, small, and extra small sizes.

Easily create a task or to-do list by inserting special check boxes into any note. Check boxes can be marked as completed or not completed and come in two sizes and four styles.

Create sophisticated-looking tables directly in your notes. Specialized tools are available to help you edit cell background colors, cell spacing, cell borders, etc. You can even merge cells, split cells, and nest tables.

Create lists of items directly in your notes. Use bullets or numbers to distinguish items in your list. Multi-level lists with auto-indentation are supported.