DH
Daisy Hall
Oct 14, 2026
Fast but feature light
Sync could use a complete overhaul because conflict resolution still involves manually picking winners too often.
Sync could use a complete overhaul because conflict resolution still involves manually picking winners too often.
A critical security advisory was handled by posting a vague forum thread rather than contacting affected users. Buggy ever since the rewrite shipped and the previous version is no longer available for download anywhere. Upsell popups appeared mid sentence while I was typing and dismissed buttons were deliberately buried below the fold.
Another release cycle or two could turn this into something I would recommend without any caveats. This could be my daily driver after a few more fixes to the collaboration layer and the mobile app.
Decent search is held back by the lack of fuzzy matching so typos silently return empty result sets.
Fine as a note sink but the search ranking surfaces old irrelevant matches before recent ones which frustrates me. Learning curve is steeper than the marketing suggests and the official tutorials skip over the hard parts.
Account recovery is a labyrinth of forms and required documents even for a hobby user with no sensitive data stored. A subscription trap in every sense because features I used in the trial were quietly moved to a higher tier at renewal.
Every integration I rely on broke silently after an api change that was announced only on an internal developer forum. Support never replied to three different tickets opened over two months about a login loop that still happens today. Every feature that mattered to me ended up locked behind a paywall after a promotional period I never agreed to.
Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes. I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock.
An integrated terminal is a nice touch but it does not fully replace my existing shell for anything complex.
Mobile parity is real and I can actually complete the same tasks on my phone that I do at my desk. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf. Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help.
Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network.
Keyboard shortcuts conflict with system wide bindings and cannot be remapped without editing an undocumented json file. Every integration I rely on broke silently after an api change that was announced only on an internal developer forum.
Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had. Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app. Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language.
I am hopeful about the roadmap and the team communicates well in their public forum which helps a lot. Billing dashboard shows usage from last month but current month data lags by several days so forecasting is hard. Clunky but functional covers my feelings on an interface that works and yet feels at least two years old.
Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session. Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices.
A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved. I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Pdf export preserved every heading hyperlink and footnote exactly as it looked in the editor pane. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard.
Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency. Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it.
Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade. Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images. Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session.
Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation.
Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them. Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps.
I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings. Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup. Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs.
Works most of the time but every so often the launcher hangs for a minute before the window appears. Automation builder is powerful however the error messages when something breaks are cryptic and unhelpful.
Imports lost every bit of formatting including code blocks and tables that were perfectly fine in the source file. Dark patterns everywhere from the signup form to the cancellation flow which uses six screens to protect one checkbox.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple. Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first. Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple. Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
Memory usage climbed past four gigabytes with a dozen notes open which crashed my browser tabs in parallel.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long. Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job.
Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now. Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
Billing surprise this quarter was not malicious but the plan page is confusing enough that it probably happens often. I am still deciding if this is my daily driver because the keyboard support is uneven between views. Updates land often which is good but sometimes they introduce new regressions that take weeks to see fixes.
Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes. Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares.
Average across the board with no feature that stands out and nothing obvious that pushes me to leave. I am hopeful about the roadmap and the team communicates well in their public forum which helps a lot.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable.
Granular export control meant our legal team could share only the exact subset of records they needed. Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images.
Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days. Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits.
Templates saved me hours this week alone because the project boilerplate matches our internal style guide exactly. Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app. Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice. Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier.
At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows.
Half of my data vanished during a routine update and support took three weeks just to acknowledge my ticket.
Crashes constantly on my phone and I lost two days of edits before I noticed autosave was never actually running.
Snappy on an old Android phone that struggles with everything else I install from the store these days. Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language.