My issue for me is that I do not want to give up my own folder structure on iCloud that EagleFiler respects so well and most markdown editors try to mess with that. For example, if you edit a Markdown file with Drafts it will copy it to its own folder, which can be nice if you only intend to edit .md files but in my vault I store basically everything. So, depending on the week I am using some md editor or the other. Pandas (from the Bear team) is nice, Macdown is rough but usable, and other days I just use good old Textmate.
I also use Agenda to take meeting notes, but then I promptly move those notes to EagleFiler.
No need to feel left out! If it serves your needs, Apple Notes can be really useful. I very much appreciate the functionality that my PKM set-up providesā being able to:
filter not just for notes but also for blocks within notes
stitch together a comprehensive view of related information across notes
view my notes through a variety of perspectives (e.g. I can filter my notes by a specific tag/term and view them on a timeline)
easily create links between my active notes, my tasks, my calendar items and reference materials (e.g. my ānew projectā action creates a draft, an iThoughts map and a reminder with one click, all linked to each other)
publish notes to different platforms direct from my PKM
etc etcā¦
This kind of functionally suits the way I work, personally, but if someone just needs a notes app without all the cross-linking and slicing/dicing of information, whatever you use that suits your needs appropriately is all good.
I have years of historic notes there, mostly my PKM for my masterās, and it was (and still is to great extent) super convenient due to its cross-platform features and the web client, the iPadOS app has always been relatively feature-rich and stable and the Apple Pencil support has always been pretty good. I wish Obsidian or Craft were a thing just couple of years ago as I would have used them for my masterās instead of OneNote, where my notes are now somewhat stuck and difficult to export from.
Now I mostly use a combination of Bear (fleeting notes, things that usually end up either deleted/archived or moved to another app if relevant), Craft and Obsidian (I just canāt settle for just one of these ā I use Craft mostly where I would have used OneNote previously, like meeting and client notes and such, and Iām trying to build my PKM for topics I like to follow and might find relevant one day for a PhD in Obsidian).
I also use DEVONthink for document management, readings and annotating.
I love some of the ways Obsidian, NotePlan, etc. have extended some elements of Markdown.
Iām sad they donāt do it in a way that maintains the basic functionality of markdown.
So iirc, linking to a heading in Obsidian is something like [[note_title#heading]] ā¦ which will not work at all in a number of other apps that use wiki linking but not that specific syntax.
Instead, they could have made a heading link look like this: [[note_title]]#heading ā and it at least would bring the user to the right note in another app, even if the app didnāt support the same heading-linking convention.
Itās really disappointing for an app that makes note permanence a core goal.
