rjbull, way to resurrect an old thread!-superboyac

I read another thread where you mentioned live search, and thought it was worth mentioning NoteFrog for completeness here.
Notefrog looks impressive. I am very interested in it and I'm going to give it a shot. Even though I use infoqube and onenote, there's always room for another light, quick notetaker. Actually, now that evernote standalone is gone, this may have to be my replacement. Nice find!
I don't see it as anywhere near as powerful - or large - as EverNote, but as you observe, for light-duty operations it looks potentially good. It can be portable too, but they don't (or didn't) have a ready-made portable version, you have to copy the files over yourself. As far as I'm concerned, the lack of import is serious, but it's still a young project. For light note-taking I currently use Horst Schaeffer's
MemPad, which is an excellent, free, portable tree-style program, but is essentially plain text and doesn't have live search. I think it uses a built-in Windows component to do its Ctrl-F search, too, and that's very slow on largish files on Vista Home Premium.