There are so many apps for different personalities and workflows – there's never 'one solution fits all'. Note-taking is very personal and so everyone has different expectations on what they'd like. Developing this as a team of two is very difficult but then hearing how some users use your app every day for a year and can't live without it is hugely rewarding Build a desktop app, and then users want a fluid accessible web experience. Build a web app, then all of your users want a faster native desktop app. Ubiquity and having your knowledge accessible at any time, on all of your devices is super important – but also the most challenging to create. Much of what you've said is concurrent with the majority of our users. Instead I'd like to share a little what I've learnt from building a note-taking startup for the past three years with my co-founder – it's easily the hardest thing we've both done. Haha let me rattle on about my own note-taking setup (or indeed my own Startup). I'm an Emacs person, I've written a couple thousand lines of elisp, and I have never, ever been able to get into org mode. I'm interested to see if anybody comes up with something macOS-supported that outdoes Bear. So, Notes and Bear.app are my two recommendations.

I had Bear.app for awhile and was initially skeptical of it, but it has now replaced Notes.app for me it's a better writing environment, it has sticky notes (pinned to the top of the note list) which turn out to be really valuable, does native Markdown, and search and sync work reliably on my laptop and phone.

I can drag screenshots of lecture videos in and write short sentences about them. I don't have to think about what I'm writing or how it fits into the scheme of things because I'm guaranteed to be able to find things with search. It's honestly pretty great it's frustratingly good, in fact, because it doesn't feel much better to use than does TextEdit. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and (2) sync - I need my notes mirrored onto my phone.įor several years I just use Apple's Notes.app. There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all.

Noteplan vs craft