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What note taking apps do you use?

Ian on May 04, 2020

I've been looking for a note taking app that supports speech to text along with notes and lists.

What are you currently using?

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Asher Irving

I'm a sad person who just uses the "Notes" app from macOS.

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Ian

What do you do for when you are on the fly?

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Asher Irving

Send emails to myself in Gmail.
I know, it's pretty lame.

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Ian

Not something I expected to here haha

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Dave

I use a markdown editor (Typora) when at the laptop, otherwise just email notes to myself (and have a mail rule setup for it).

I am seriously thinking about buying a Remarkable2 though, no product endorsement, I've just seen their V1 in the flesh & love the idea. Main struggle at the moment is being able to justify the cost based on my workflow...

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Ian

Markdown is great. Personally I dislike writing it on mobile though. I'll take a look at remarkable, thanks

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József Sallai

Notion! It has cool sharing options, Kanban boards, and lots of cool templates to choose from.

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Ian

Notion looks quite impressive!

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Michel Renaud

OneNote

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Ninja Team

Tried to find good alternatives to Evernote yet no success so far.

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Sarah • Edited

Notion! I used Evernote for several years, but made the switch to Notion a while ago and I can't imagine going back to anything else.

Edit: Sorry, I spoke too soon. Read the title and the responses but didn't notice the "speech to text" part; never tried that in Evernote or Notion, so I'm not sure how they compare on that front 😬

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Ian

Evernote looks good. Why are you looking for alternative? Did you have problems?

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NEAR

notion.so/ and roamresearch.com/ are pretty nice :)

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Scott Simontis

Roam is pretty neat, but I don't like it being an online system. Fortunately, there's an Emacs org-roam extension (that I am porting to VS Code!). Notion really disappointed me with their refusal to prioritize an API, which has been at the top of the product map for years, so right now I am using Inkdrop for all my Markdown notes. I would love to go Org-mode full-time, but I need more practice with it.

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Katarzyna Kokosza

I need something simple with visible project structure and so on...
so I am using Atom!

I tried to use Notion / Evernote but it's too heavy for me

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Saviour Gidi

Gedit on Linux and SublimeText on Mac.