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If the Evernote sale has the dire consequences everyone expects it to, then the note-taking space is wide open. After ten years with Evernote, I migrated to Not
by dkarl 4y ago
If the Evernote sale has the dire consequences everyone expects it to, then the note-taking space is wide open. After ten years with Evernote, I migrated to Notion a few months ago and am heading towards another migration unless Notion starts to feel better to me soon. There are a lot of note-taking apps, but no gold standard yet.
Someday someone will produce a polished app with quick search, sync, and navigation, and all the popular features implemented in a way that imposes zero cognitive overhead if you don't use them. Most of the apps seem to be competing to figure out a unique killer feature or a unique experience to distinguish themselves from the pack, but I think the biggest winner will be the one that is just quietly better, a little bit smoother and quicker, that looks like it has no features at all except the ones you need.
That's an incredibly high bar for design and implementation, but somebody is going to hit it eventually. Who knows, maybe it will be Grug Notes!
- alex3305 4y agoI have setup Joplin a few weeks ago and I really enjoy using it. AFAIK it is not as powerful as something like Notion or Obsidian, but it just works. And is already miles better than using loose txt files, like I was before.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoJoplin is great. Easy to use, simple, markdown powered and the export to web is not bad.
- dkarl 4y agoI'll have to give Joplin another try. Last time I tried it (probably more than a year ago) the sync interval was fixed, and the fastest option was five minutes, which didn't work for the use case of making a note on my laptop, tossing my laptop in my bag, walking out the door, and having the note available on my phone.
- alex3305 4y agoThe shortest sync interval is still 5 minutes. But I have developed the habit of CTRL+S'ing after each important change. Which is coincidentally the sync shortcut key within Joplin. So for me that isn't really an issue. But to be fair, I was looking for a 'real-time' webbased app, like Notion. But I wanted it to be self-hosted, use Markdown for formatting, (a little) polished and easy to setup and maintain. And while Joplin isn't perfect, or even fits all of my criteria, it was a close second. Even if it has it's drawbacks.
- keizo 4y agoWow, thanks for the encouragement! I currently load all notes ever created on the one page. At some point that might not scale, but for now Ctrl f must be fastest search right?? Haha.