Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
I replaced three separate subscriptions after a week of using this and my monthly bill actually dropped noticeably.
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.
Half of my data vanished during a routine update and support took three weeks just to acknowledge my ticket.
Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all.
Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon. I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama.
Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
Clunky but functional covers my feelings on an interface that works and yet feels at least two years old. Impressive on paper and uneven in practice because the showcase features polished in demos are brittle elsewhere.
A thoughtful onboarding flow walked me through the useful features without burying me in modal popups. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
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. No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable. Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job.
No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward. Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs. I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails.
Templates saved me hours this week alone because the project boilerplate matches our internal style guide exactly. Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier. This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices. After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot.
I used to live in spreadsheets and this replaced that entire workflow with something far easier to maintain. Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails.
Works until it stops working and then recovery means logging out and back in which gets old quickly. Billing dashboard shows usage from last month but current month data lags by several days so forecasting is hard.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares.
File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network. Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job. Snappy on an old Android phone that struggles with everything else I install from the store these days.
It scales smoothly from my solo projects up to our shared startup workspace without any pricing surprises.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files.
Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan.
Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame. Pdf export preserved every heading hyperlink and footnote exactly as it looked in the editor pane.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had. Clear release notes include migration steps for every breaking change which saved us during the last major upgrade.
Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on. Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them.
Billing dashboard shows usage from last month but current month data lags by several days so forecasting is hard. Fast under light load however feature light compared with the competitor it is clearly trying to replace.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs.
Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before.
Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares. Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade.
After a sync conflict the app silently deleted my notes without producing any backup copy I could recover.
Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface. Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly.
Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them. Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
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. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.