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Ursula Mayer
Oct 15, 2026
Fine on desktop awkward on mobile
Decent import tool brought in most of my data however images and embedded tables did not survive cleanly.
Decent import tool brought in most of my data however images and embedded tables did not survive cleanly.
Honest free tier covers hobby use well however any team work rapidly bumps into the collaborator limit.
Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
After the latest redesign the simplest tasks now require three clicks that used to need one single keystroke. Login constantly times out and the password reset email arrives thirty minutes later if it arrives at all.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices. I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
Account recovery is a labyrinth of forms and required documents even for a hobby user with no sensitive data stored.
Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard.
Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide.
Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency. No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work.
This could be my daily driver after a few more fixes to the collaboration layer and the mobile app.
Imports lost every bit of formatting including code blocks and tables that were perfectly fine in the source file.
Buggy desktop client leaks file handles until my operating system refuses to open new windows and forces a reboot.
Documentation claims features that do not exist in the shipping product which wasted a full afternoon of integration work. Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama. Buggy ever since the rewrite shipped and the previous version is no longer available for download anywhere.
A quiet revelation to realize my morning startup script now takes seconds instead of the minute it used to require. Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session.
Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint.
Not worth the hype and I regret the referrals I sent to colleagues who have since switched to a competitor.
Granular export control meant our legal team could share only the exact subset of records they needed.
A critical security advisory was handled by posting a vague forum thread rather than contacting affected users.
A thoughtful onboarding flow walked me through the useful features without burying me in modal popups. Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits.
No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version. Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Pricing page quietly doubled last month and existing customers were migrated to the new rate without any email notice. Half of my data vanished during a routine update and support took three weeks just to acknowledge my ticket. Terrible mobile editor loses my cursor position every time the keyboard dismisses which has caused countless lost edits.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps. Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
It does the job most of the time and I just work around the quirks rather than reporting them. Documentation is thin in exactly the places where the product behavior is least obvious to newcomers. Works most of the time but every so often the launcher hangs for a minute before the window appears.
Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes.
Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem. Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned.
Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs. A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything.
Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup. Clear release notes include migration steps for every breaking change which saved us during the last major upgrade.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images.
Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration. Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had. Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs.
Billing portal is broken in several browsers and the one that works refuses to accept a European billing address. Billing charged me twice for the same month and the refund took forty five days to appear in my account.
Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares. No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward.
Decent search is held back by the lack of fuzzy matching so typos silently return empty result sets.
Works fine for casual use but I would hesitate before trusting it with mission critical client data.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before. Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box. Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier.
Interesting but incomplete at this stage and I would wait a quarter before deploying it across a whole team. A capable editor sits inside a shell that feels sluggish during window resize and tab switching operations. Design feels modern yet the underlying search engine is clearly from an earlier generation of the product.
Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes.
Battery drain was so severe that my phone died by lunch on the first day I installed this.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable.
Billing dashboard shows usage from last month but current month data lags by several days so forecasting is hard.
Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before. Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf. Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.