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What's your favorite note-taking tool?

For me, it's Evernote. What about you?

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on March 7, 2022
  1. 4

    Obsidian is a game changer for me. Notion too, and it has a much easier learning curve.

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      I've also been using Obsidian. It's free and it's on my computer so it's fast.

      I put all my ideas, links and notes in there now.

      Notion has more functionality, but it's too complicated for what I need.

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      The only thing missing on Obsidian (in the free plan), is the sync between device. So I save all my note on dropbox and I can use Obsidian on any of my devices :D

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        I use git for that, but the setup is indeed not simple.

  2. 3

    The old-fashioned pen and notebook is usually the best for me! 😄

  3. 3

    VSCode and markdown files, in a git repository

    1. 1

      After I tried Foam Bubble for VSCode, I could never go back to Notion.

  4. 2

    Personally I use Evernote for personal use and OneNote for professional.

    My product (ReClipped) is dedicated to solving note-taking on videos and good thing is that it syncs with some of the most popular generic note-taking apps like Evernote, Notion, Obsidian, Roam Research etc.

  5. 1

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  7. 1

    Good old Word. Never really tried anything else even though I should.

  8. 1

    I made one as an in-house tool for my company, because I noticed that the one I was using for a year and half was uploading my content to its cloud server without my knowledge or consent. Couldn't trust anything after that. And I needed something offline.

  9. 1

    I have tried various note taking apps for both my team of around 10 and myself over the years. Notion, Docs, evernote, shudder SharePoint and OneNote.
    In the end the power of bundling lots of services together in a single subscription wins for me.

    Personally I use Google Workspace, Suite, or whatever it's called this week, as an individual. When I reviewed my monthly spend on SaaS app's I couldn't justify another login and another ping on my card for Evernote etc.
    In the end the simplest solution for myself was Google Keep for thought logging, Google Docs & Diagrams.net pretty much covers everything I need under one subscription and the sharing and old drive synch were perfect.

    For the team, Atlassian and Jira / Confluence (easier to use for simpler projects now with the new interface). The ability to tie the developer documentation, client meeting notes and tickets together on one platform without adding cloud service API connectors and being able to manage staff accounts in one platform makes life easier.

    Side note,
    I haven't looked in a while and this probably exists but I always dreamed about a giant canvas like whiteboard where notes could be written in Google doc format and linked to with diagrams, images, links embedded videos and some line drawling to link topic type tools, like a diagrams.net with better UI meets mindmeister and wiki type features and version history.

  10. 1

    Big fan of org roam synced in a git repo. Ultra customizable (because it is in Emacs) and everything is local.

  11. 1

    tried a bunch but each one of them had a dopaminergic and boilerplate overhead to it. The best for me is simple pen and paper, free from abstractions and I can do/map/route/think/note whatever I want.

  12. 1

    Notion is unbeatable

  13. 1

    For ad hoc notes I use OneNote. But for personal documentation and things that I have organized, I use my favorite text editor (Vim, in my case) and a git repository.

  14. 1

    Evernote is best for me in case of personal notes and tasks, but I'm learning to organize things in Notion in the meantime as well.

    I turned my attention to Notion, as it is free comparing to Evernote - of course.

    However, I found Notion challenging to set up, especially when it comes to databases, Evernote import (no attachmets in import) and <deep breath> pasting screenshots on mobile (you literally can't do that).

    So I think I will stay with Evernote and use Notion for specific projects only. I will reconsider it when I will feel fluent with Notion, though.

  15. 1
    • UEStudio for coding (local and sftp access) and general note-taking on my laptop

    • StandardNotes for light note-taking as it syncs beautifully across my iPhone, iPad and laptop; with fingerprint access on the iPad so family members can't access it

    • Evernote - just hearing that word again has raised my blood pressue - I need to go and lie down! horrible in so many ways

  16. 1

    I used to use Notion but switched to Coda for my personal biz to do list. Codas landing pages is ehhhhh 😒 but their product is way better than Notion.

    I see so many note taking apps popping up its crazy. probably because their easy to build versus a software like Zapier. Heck, I see tons of Zapier competitors and even with Integromate rebranding to Make their product interface is still lame compared to Zapier.

    Sorry for going off subject, its just crazy what happens in SaaS.

  17. 1

    Recall (https://recall.wiki) is a tool I am working on, it falls into the broader category of note-taking tool but it is really is quite different from what most note-taking apps do. The aim is to create a personal knowledge graph of things you are interested in using data from different sources (wiki's, imdb, goodreads, etc ). It solves quite a specific problem I had which wasn't easily done with existing tools.

  18. 1

    I am using ColorNote on my Android phone. Using it since 2015, and it works very well for my needs.

  19. 1

    I moved from a combination of Miro + Notion to Clover (www.cloverapp.com) a few months ago. I love it. Paid for a year up front.

  20. 1

    I use Nuclino. It is very good for what I need and I often wonder why it is not more popular.

  21. 1

    I've tried a bunch, but I always find my self defaulting back to Apple Notes. It's already installed on my computer and phone, the UX is good (not the best), doesn't have too many unnecessary features, and syncs with my iCloud.

  22. 1

    Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) by far. Markdown-based notes, web-clipper capable, inline code highlighting, mermaidjs diagrams,multiple sync targets, and a phone app (and a ton more). Just makes the organization and use of the notes so easy.

    Edit: wrote a blog post about it back in 2020, I have been using it for a long while. (https://jacobncalvert.com/2020/10/15/take-notes-using-joplin/)

  23. 1

    I love Notion. I can structure content however I like it best.

  24. 1

    Dynalist (outliner, mind map) and Notion.

    Inspiration is perishable [1], so the moment the idea strikes I like to have a fast place to dash off my thoughts. That's Dynalist. I open up a new node and write my thoughts extemporaneously without worrying about organization. If I later want to expound on, organize, archive, or otherwise "use" these thoughts, I import them to a page in Notion.

    [1] via Naval:

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      I took the opposite route. I just let those flashes of inspiration inside my head. If they are any good or relevant, I'll probably think about them again - and then I act on it. Help me filter out the rubbish ideas.

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    Huge fan of Notion, I put everything on Notion.
    Notion is also a perfect tool for product management which I use for building my React SaaS Boilerplate

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        https://www.craft.do it's like a fast, native Notion

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    Notion, of course :)

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