<story><title>Tired of note-taking apps</title><url>https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomduncalf</author><text>Personally I find Apple Notes the most convenient for quick jotting down of ideas etc. It’s not the most advanced in terms of features but it loads instantly, is quick to use and is available on all of my devices. Have tried numerous alternatives but they’ve never stuck e.g. they’re slow to start up or are fussy to use or don’t work well on one platform.&lt;p&gt;For deeper sketching out of ideas, diagrams etc I really like Concepts on iPad with the Apple Pencil. It has an infinite canvas and is all vector based, which is great for never worrying about whether there’s room to fit your idea on the page or whatever. Previously I used Notability and it was good and a bit more traditionally note based, but I miss the infinite canvas. The text recognition and handwriting features in Apple Notes on iOS 14 are pretty cool though, will be nice to see what third party apps do with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justsomeuser</author><text>I like Apple Notes and would use it if it did not have the following limitations:&lt;p&gt;- You cannot link between notes like a wiki (like Evernotes evernote:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;$note-guid)&lt;p&gt;- You cannot export all your notes in a standardised format.&lt;p&gt;- You cannot store notebooks in specific offline only encrypted disk images for privacy.&lt;p&gt;- Cannot change background (must use paper emulation)</text></comment>
<story><title>Tired of note-taking apps</title><url>https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomduncalf</author><text>Personally I find Apple Notes the most convenient for quick jotting down of ideas etc. It’s not the most advanced in terms of features but it loads instantly, is quick to use and is available on all of my devices. Have tried numerous alternatives but they’ve never stuck e.g. they’re slow to start up or are fussy to use or don’t work well on one platform.&lt;p&gt;For deeper sketching out of ideas, diagrams etc I really like Concepts on iPad with the Apple Pencil. It has an infinite canvas and is all vector based, which is great for never worrying about whether there’s room to fit your idea on the page or whatever. Previously I used Notability and it was good and a bit more traditionally note based, but I miss the infinite canvas. The text recognition and handwriting features in Apple Notes on iOS 14 are pretty cool though, will be nice to see what third party apps do with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tammer</author><text>I would argue that in a number of ways Apple Notes is one of the most advanced in terms of features.&lt;p&gt;Yes, it doesn’t bombard you with its functionality and at first glance is a simple place to jot notes (perhaps its greatest strength). But dig into the feature list, and perhaps help me find a similar application that:&lt;p&gt;1) can combine tables, rich text formatting, and in-line sketches
2) can store any file type in-line
3) can encrypt protect notes
4) can bulk share Notes + live edit
5) has a built-in complex document scanner&lt;p&gt;I know there are some alternatives that cover most of these but I think Apple Notes is king precisely because of these many layers of functionality.</text></comment>