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What's your fav note-taking tool?
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Feels like I have literally tried them all.
Notion - currently using but so. slow. and no offline mode is terrible.
OneNote - too 'app' heavy, some loved it, I never got into it.
Evernote - My first love, but linking pages was terrible.
Apple Notes - use it every day, but move stuff out of it when I want to store and organize
Coda - Felt too heavy for personal use, interesting business options
Bear - Evernote front end, can't stand the exposed Markdown
SimpleNote - Evernote front end, nice used it for a while cause it was faster, but suffers from the Evernote linking issue.
Roam - Love the note linking features, hard to get used to.
Next up to try, Obsidian.
@joshdance I've also heard good things about Obsidian. Did you have chance to try it out? To be honest I went through pretty much the same list and had very similar feedback like you :D Still looking for something that suits my workflow better.
@joshdance @troll_lock We're researching these kinds of pain points for oneplaybook dot app. Curious to know what's caused you all to wander through this list. What do you feel is missing?
@joshdance @absamma My needs are: -fast and light, -sync between mobile and desktop, -offline mode, -linking between documents, -don't need markdown,
@joshdance Have you tried SideNotes? I use it to take quick notes and store things I want to keep at hand at all times. It’s like organized post-it notes on my screen side.
@w_j Haven't tried it. I really dislike the stickynotes on screen concept. I want the notes away so they don't consume mental bandwidth.
@5harath I'm using the @anytypelabs alpha on mobile & desktop these days. Native apps & local storage are 🔑 for me!
I have found a Whatsapp group with just me, as the best tool for quickly writing down random thoughts. Also Whatsapp web helps in going through the notes on desktop.
Apple Notes is best for personal use. Its simple and handy. Present on all my devices out of box. Sync wells. No logins required.
I started using Evernote years ago, but it's lost on time. Require a lot of new features for still competitive.
Now I use notion for more organized things, and for fast taking notes apple notes.
Some of us use open source solutions. I've been using TiddlyWiki since 2016. Haven't looked back since. It's flexible, portable (it's a quine, an html5 app that produces a copy of it's own source code for you to download and serve from a local device) and completely serverless. It came as 2nd product of the day in 2020.
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@scott_kingery 💯we're building something to make TiddlyWiki even more useful and easier for others to use over at https://oneplaybook.app. We have a working prototype internally that has incorporated lessons we've learned from early users and hope to share with the wider community soon. Here's to bringing more users to the community!
I prefer Google Notes for jotting down information quickly, but it's easy to lose track of files if you don't organize them frequently.
@matthew_ritchie Best used in conjunction with docs when you need to jot down key ideas for summarizing into say a ppt.
I just released Thunk—a free writing tool! What makes Thunk different is its approach to organization. You can organize in Your own way. You can search across all notes by content or make collections in whatever you find most sensible. More at: thunkhq.com
@5harath Shepherd is great, especially if you're an avid Google user. Notion makes the odd appearance here and there too.
I've used a lot of note-taking apps before but now I only use Notion.
Notion is(has)
-Wide variety of tables
-Free to use most features
-Flexible pages
-Quick and easy to use
You can basically replace all the best features from other note-taking apps like Evernote, OneNote, and Bear with Notion.
I find Google Keep good. However, for me, nothing beats the classic - pen & paper :) Otherwise
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