Note taking apps

As @gordon already mentioned he pretty much asked the same questions couple of weeks ago, and the post got a lot of great suggestions, so definitely check that out.

But since I love it so much I will say it again: Workflowy is a crazy good tool for super quick note-taking. On top of that you can also use it as a project management or task management tool, keeping everything super lightweight and simple to use.

At the core it is an outliner app, which makes it super fast to use. Recently I have read somewhere on the web that Workflowy is also planning on implement backlinks (just like Roam) which will make it even more powerful.

If you are struggling to find the right note-taking tool for yourself I highly recommend checking out this article by @anthilemoon How to choose the right note-taking app.

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Google Keep. For anything longer or more complex than typical short notes I use Google Docs.

Apple notes app. For its simplicity.

Anyone using any extension to take notes on the browser?

Supernotes ⚡️

I am building it with @acnebs. It's very different from conventional note-taking apps, as everything is based around a note-card format, which are themselves taggable, nestable and linkable (yes bi-directional links!).

Supernotes is also collaborative, so you can share just one note-card with a friend / colleague or all of them in one go – and them like, comment and edit together.

If you like Google Keep and want something a bit more powerful give it a go – would love to hear feedback from fellow Indie Hackers!

Notion / Relanote for private notes.
Started note taking in public with a self hosted gatsby site.

Maybe you can find our startup OrgPad helpful. It allows writing notes, organizing tasks, documents, organizing study materials, creating beautiful presentations in a few clicks, and much much more. Our vision is to move all future work into OrgPad and greatly simplify everything. People want to think in terms of topics, and not in terms of apps and tools, and OrgPad enables this type of work.

https://obsidian.md/

Bear App - https://bear.app/

I' m using Notion for two months and it' s awesome. You should check it out.
https://notion.so

Hi @sxsio. I made a similar post a few weeks back and asked the IH community about their favourite note taking apps. I aggregated the results in this post here. I am sure there will be some new suggestions here, but thought you might find this useful.

Notion is the best by far!

Took me a while to figure out what all the fuss was about

I user Google Keep. I t allows me to curate my every note categorically. There is also microsofts's Sticky notes. Evernote is also a good option.

SimpleNote https://simplenote.com/

Google keep

Evernote. Only one and always has been.

I am super biased here, but I'd recommend signing for beta of an app we're building – Sagenote.app. You can us markdown for quick formatting (it's standard these days anyway), our UI is simple, the whole app is built for speed, and it's super important to help our users to focus on their writings.

On top of that, we connect your notes to bookmarks (and much more in this area) + give users a way how to "learn in public" by publishing your working notes, if that's their thing.

For people into note taking, I'd highly recommend checking out Tiago Forte's Build a second brain course: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/

Because it's keyboard centric, Checkvist.com I my choice. It does nested lists like Workflowy, but has so much more. Notes, attachments, and makdown just to name a few. They even integrate with Google calendar and you can add tasks/notes by email or web clipper. The only thing missing is timely notifications.

One of the big reasons I dont use anything other than apples app is I am not confident in the privacy others provide.

I can;t believe all the "products" listed here.... geezz

hands down = Notion.so

I also use Evernote for capturing web pages, content, links, images etc - the web clipper is 2nd to none

I used to use CODA but have migrated to Notion

I'm going to review ROAM RESEARCH cuz a friend is sold on it

I have Dynalist and Workflowy accounts. Love the Focus IN feature

I created Minutes for Meeting minutes notes for iOS --> https://minutes.dynamiteapps.io

I built Scrilys with long form writing in mind so it's geared towards book writing but I wonder if there is a note taking use case as well? Would be curious to hear anyones thoughts:

https://scrilys.com/

Paper and pen :) (seriously)

mymind.com!

I use Marktext (https://marktext.app/).
Great note taking app with markdown support.

Pen and paper - I know this is considered outrageous by many!

Haven't seen it being mentioned so here it is:
Joplin.

• Free and opensource
• Cssable
• Tags, Notepads (like categories) and sub notepads
• Embed images and files
• Markdown
• Revisions of notes
• Mobile (android, iphone), linux,mac, windows and even command line apps
• Sync via Dropbox, WebDav
• End to End encryption if you want
• Api for your local instance, if you want to do something programmatically
• Developers are active and responsive both on their forum and github

There is probably more, but those things are the things that made me switch from some 6+ other note taking apps in the past

Complete bias here, but it has to be Under Cloud.

I see people mentioning bi-directional linking, and that's something the Under Cloud is built around as a core approach to creating narratives of the learning and note taking process.

I have been using Evernote for 6 years, but have recently started using more and more Relanote. It is still in an early phase, but it is a really promising project. I’m waiting for them to implement import from Evernote to move all my olde notes. The app offers bi-directional links, graph view, encryption, sharing notes, web version and more.

https://relanote.com

Google Keep for simple and small stuff, Coda.io for complicated stuff

I have been an Evernote user for years now that it's basically been my note repository for everything!

Another vote for Google Keep here.
I was hoping to be able to integrate it with a system I am in the process of building to be able to generate a Keep checklist, but apparently there's no API for it :(

I am building https://gemsnotes.app/ as a frustrated Internet user.

There are many note-taking apps out there, but none of them really helped me so far to face some of the most common problems that affect my daily Internet browsing: information overload, cognitive biases and the difficulty to convert all those valuable sources available into lasting learning and eventually create new personal content. So I am working on an end-to-end solution for continuous learning and creation.

I started using Todoist, and even bought the premium version for a year. Still I find myself going back to just good old Apple Notes for almost everything, except for larger projects for which there's Trello. So yeah I'm likely ditching Todoist at the end of the year.

Apple notes

I’m a big fan of Bear. Been my go to for 3 years now.

Lately I've been moving things to Apple Reminders and separating a project into sub folders. It's working quite nicely and less overwhelming than a big list.

Quick note/ draft - https://write.as/ dark mode

Content/ blogging (pre-publish) - Notion

I have been toying with all kinds of note taking apps. This is now my "workflow".

• Notability on iPad to create hand written notes.
• Notion for notes that are like permant and I need to store forever. Kind of like blog posts to myself.
• A custom simple webapp for daily simple notes to myself. Things I need to copy paste or things I did that day. Those kinds of things.
• And sometimes Bear. Really don't know why.

I've tried many, many, and many more note apps, but Notion is by far the best for me!

https://standardnotes.org/ - Supports multiple devices and is end to end encrypted.

I often use Notes on MacOS.
Since I can freely note things, and sync between my laptop and phone

Microsoft OneNote. Very straight forward usage and works on all devices. It's also hard to beat the price ($0)