Ubernote Power Tip: Run as Standalone Desktop App in Chrome

I know that there are a lot of UberNote power users out there (myself certainly included - I hit 8,000 notes just a few days ago!), so I thought it was time to start a series of "power tips".

UberNote is an extremely flexible Web application as we showed you in the last post on single-note editing. There are a lot of tricks we can do to enhance our productivity. One of my favorites is running the main UberNote Web application in its own standalone window without any browser toolbars or anything else to get in my way. Another benefit of doing this is that I get a quick launch shortcut on my desktop.

The process I'm going to show you next deals with the Google Chrome browser. Other browsers can do something similar, but to keep this short, I'll only cover Chrome for now.

Step 1 - Browse to your notes in UberNote

This step should be reasonably self-explanatory, but double check that the website location looks like what is hightlighted in the screenshot below:

Step 2 - Create application shortcut

Refer to the following screenshot to bring up the dialog that creates the desktop shortcuts:

The dialog that comes up allows you to select several different shortcut types to create:

Step 3 - Launch UberNote standalone using the new shortcut

Double-clicking on the newly created shortcut will launch your notes immediately:

The standalone UberNote looks like this:

Pretty awesome, right? No toolbars or extra baggage, just pure note-taking goodness. Another advantage to having a separate window is that your notes won't get buried in the rest of the tabs that are open, allowing you to move back and forth much more easily.

Hopefully you've enjoyed this tip. Keep an eye on our blog - there is more to come.