almost 4 years ago from Amisadaí Segura, Visual Designer at Honeywell Aerospace
Hi everyone,
I had struggled to find a note-keeping app that I won't drop by a week or two, I had tried Stickies, Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, etc.
Are there any other apps you could recommend, that I might be missing?
Thank you!
Once you figure out Notion and the way you organise notes in it, it's pretty irreplaceable.
Notion is an absolute delight to use on desktop and mobile. Highly recommend!
Really? The lack of a native mobile app is keeping me from really committing to Notion. I find the performance pretty bad and the overall smoothness and polish obviously lacking. And always-on is not a great requirement for a notes application.
All fair points! I've actually found Notion to be pretty performant considering it's written with the web stack and Electron (I'm assuming), but I understand. A lot of apps are going that route these days and you can feel it.
I'm curious about what exactly is performing poorly in the app?
It takes about 5 seconds from icon click to usable window in my experience - unacceptable.
Understandable! It does have a hefty load time thanks to its web-based stack, but once up, things feel pretty zippy to me, but it definitely doesn't come close to our lovely native apps for sure. The tradeoff between cross-platform ease of development and product development versus 2-3 separate teams for different platforms (and higher cost for that).
Crazy world of products we live in!
Yeah I switched to Notion earlier this year and it’s phenomenal.
Another +1 for Notion
Switched to Notion from Bear Notes earlier this year. Notion also lets you manage multiple workspaces without multiple logins - similar to how Slack handles different teams.
Available on mobile too: iTunes | Play Store
There is a lot to like about Notion, but some real dealbreakers like poor image handling (try creating a moodboard), performance, only basic search, and limited copy and paste functionality on mobile.
iOS native notes app
This - I've never found any use case that moves me away from the native answer. It's well done, continues to get better, and requires no new accounts or company relationships.
It's pretty rock solid. The ability to insert a sketch with Apple pencil is cool, and they just announced some new features in iOS 13 :)
I totally love it as well. After years with different notes apps I think notes have the perfect balance between low cognitive load and still being able to do the job.
If only they would remove the textured background and have an infinite x-y canvas when drawing. :)
It is pretty great though.
Checkout Bear. It's a beautiful notes app.
Came here to say Bear.
Been using Bear for a year now. Love it.
+1 on Bear. Its beautiful across both iOS and OSX. Moved to Bear from Google Keep/Apple Notes and not regretting the decision at all
I like Bear. Simple, has Solarized theme and supports Markdown.
I use Google Keep.
I'd have a look at Milanote. Been using for many years after migrating from Evernote wanting something similar to an infinite canvas for notes as well as other kinds of media. Its great for mood boarding, mind-mapping, writing etc. has some powerful starter templates to build on. Easy to share with collaborators and you can use in chrome, on mac via their app or on iOS.
Agenda has been the best for me after trying many.
The organization by dates are extremely helpful for myself.
Notion is perfect if you need more personalization.
It's probably my most used app right now. In addition to using it for notes, I'm using it to write two books at the moment.
Try WorkFlowy, I’ve found its simplicity very useful and good for productivity. It’s basically wiki on steroids with lots of cool tricks you can use along the way. There’s an iOS and Mac app, also works on the web.
I've tried a bunch and at this point, my notes are scattered all over the place. Every one has something lacking, though.
Depends on your use case. Why are the apps you've used inadequate? What are you trying to do?
The Archive is hands down my favorite note-taking app out of all of the ones mentioned here for pure knowledge work. I had previously used iA Writer pretty heavily as well, and it strength lies in its simplicity. Notion is a close second for me for more productivity-related tasks and documents.
Sorry for bumping an old thread. I would recommend Unit. But at this moment it's iOS only.
Used to use Evernote (reluctantly) for 2 years before switching to Notion. Also tried Bear for about 2 months between Evernote. Notion is king. Use my link and get $10 ;) https://www.notion.so/?r=7ce0cafc49db40f3927febb195eeeaf7
I've been using Typora for a while and really loves the way it removes the markdown as you type, making the text body nice and clean. No need for a separate preview window.
I really like https://fromscratch.rocks/. It's not as full-featured as Evernote or even Keep, but it's super simple for quickly jotting down ideas.
iA Writer for quick notes (like during the meetings, quick reminders) Notion for planning and more advanced notes.
I guess it depends on what type of notes, how many, what are you want to do with them (keep a list or also share/export).
For the past few months, I'm working for Brill, an app that helps you convert your handwritten notes into text. Please give it a try!
I've been using Boostnote for a while, for daily notes + dev snippets. Syncing notes via dropbox. UI could use some improvements but other than that pretty light (cpu load wise, compared to evernote and snippetslab, these 2 felt sluggish over time in my experience).
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