Did I just just hear millions of productivity developers suddenly cry out in terror?
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We didn’t need another round-up of note-taking apps, however I do like how they subdivided the apps in their article. I was surprised to see a couple of what I consider “niche” offerings on there too. At least the article was written by someone who has scrolled down past the first row of apps in the App Store.
Someone else here will probably find this amusing like I do…. I just opened up the App Store to have a look at the Drafts app. I think Apple ought to tweak their search algorithm.
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Over the past couple days, I have tried Obsidian, and I really tried hard to like Joplin. But I don’t link notes together except client notes in my journal. It doesn’t help that both of those apps are electron-based. And so, I’m sticking with Bear 2.
EDIT: 2023-09-01 - Tried Apple Notes (no web clipper and no note links in Monterey), so tried UpNote again (version 8, which just arrived on the 27th). Still had a Premium account! Works better than I had thought when I tried it last. I really like using the forward slash for finding commands and note links work as well as they do in Bear 2. I also found out that one can link to file system items.
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Upnote - it’s is really fast. I wish they didn’t scale down pictures and allowed uploading small videos up to the 20 mb limit
wait hold on let me go get a pen and scrap of paper i want to write this down…okay go ahead.
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I recently switched to Obsidian using the PARA organization system? and it has become my primary data store for notes that I have written. I used Devonthink to capture what others have written.
The hard part for me has been migrating the around 5000 notes from previous systems - Evernote , Apple Notes, Bear, Joplin - into the new system.
I have the same struggle with migrating thousands of “legacy” documents into Devonthink.
One day, everything will be formatted and located where it should be, maybe.
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And by then we’ll be using VisionPros and our current systems will be obsolete! 
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I still use a paper planner for appointments and low churn lists. Much faster.
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Yep. I tend not to even click on magazine style websites. If they are that desperate for revenue that every 3 pixels needs an ad, they may well be in the wrong business. Blogs, News, tech magazines and the like are often anaemic and ad riddled. The internet’s content is slowly being consumed by the cancer of adverts.
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