Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes. An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before.
Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan.
A solid underlying engine is wrapped in a user experience that feels designed by three different teams. Automation builder is powerful however the error messages when something breaks are cryptic and unhelpful.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do. Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup.
Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs. Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface.
Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images.
No way to delete my data from their servers after cancellation despite a privacy policy that claims otherwise. Keyboard shortcuts conflict with system wide bindings and cannot be remapped without editing an undocumented json file. Random logouts every single day interrupt my flow and the stay signed in checkbox is clearly cosmetic.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files. Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
Not worth the hype and I regret the referrals I sent to colleagues who have since switched to a competitor.
Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly.
Every feature that mattered to me ended up locked behind a paywall after a promotional period I never agreed to. After a sync conflict the app silently deleted my notes without producing any backup copy I could recover.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before. File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network.
I used to live in spreadsheets and this replaced that entire workflow with something far easier to maintain.
Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes.
Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them. Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable. Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup. Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
Performance on older hardware is a disaster because the developers apparently only test on brand new machines. My account was randomly suspended for terms of service violations the system refused to explain or document. No way to delete my data from their servers after cancellation despite a privacy policy that claims otherwise.
Shady affiliate links were inserted into my notes by an opt out setting that defaults to on without explanation.
Serviceable with gaps around import and export that force me to keep a backup tool installed anyway. Promising for solo use yet the shared workspaces still feel more fragile than I expect from a mature tool.
A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved. Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs.
Mobile app crashes immediately on open after any system update which locks me out of my own notes for days. Login constantly times out and the password reset email arrives thirty minutes later if it arrives at all.
After the latest update the app is effectively unusable and rolling back is not supported by their installer. Every feature that mattered to me ended up locked behind a paywall after a promotional period I never agreed to.
Documentation claims features that do not exist in the shipping product which wasted a full afternoon of integration work. Buggy desktop client leaks file handles until my operating system refuses to open new windows and forces a reboot. Every feature that mattered to me ended up locked behind a paywall after a promotional period I never agreed to.
Mostly stable release cadence is sometimes interrupted by hotfixes that reintroduce bugs we had already seen fixed.
Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help. Mobile parity is real and I can actually complete the same tasks on my phone that I do at my desk. No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings.
Templates saved me hours this week alone because the project boilerplate matches our internal style guide exactly. Export to a local git repository preserved history metadata so I have real version control over my notes.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address. I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface. No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint.
Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor. Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation. Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable.
Autosave failed silently during a long session and recovering drafts from the local cache was not possible at all.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk. A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything. Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan.
Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares. Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice.
An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process. Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long.
Shortcut customization works until you discover the system reserves half the useful combinations without any warning. Feature rich and heavy on resources which makes it a questionable fit for low powered field laptops.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything. Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings. Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings.
My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained. It scales smoothly from my solo projects up to our shared startup workspace without any pricing surprises.
Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.