Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation. Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame.
Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language. Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier. File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network.
Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all. Mobile parity is real and I can actually complete the same tasks on my phone that I do at my desk.
Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares.
Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes. I replaced three separate subscriptions after a week of using this and my monthly bill actually dropped noticeably.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. A quiet revelation to realize my morning startup script now takes seconds instead of the minute it used to require. Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface.
Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes. Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app.
I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults. Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding.
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.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process. Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings. After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot. Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly.
This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price. An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before.
I replaced three separate subscriptions after a week of using this and my monthly bill actually dropped noticeably. Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state. I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide.
Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency. VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame. Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them.
Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it.
No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward.
Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
Every integration I rely on broke silently after an api change that was announced only on an internal developer forum.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address. Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf. Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long. Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings.
No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
Okay for the price if you can tolerate the occasional sync hiccup during peak usage windows. Promising for solo use yet the shared workspaces still feel more fragile than I expect from a mature tool.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices.
Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box. A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved.
Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first.
A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything.
Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint.
Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before.
Reasonable choice with some caveats including a free tier that cuts off right where it starts to be useful. Decent import tool brought in most of my data however images and embedded tables did not survive cleanly.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long. Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner.
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.
Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly. I used to live in spreadsheets and this replaced that entire workflow with something far easier to maintain.
Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now. Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs. Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version.
Clear release notes include migration steps for every breaking change which saved us during the last major upgrade.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained. Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk. Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup. Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings.
After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot.
Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes. A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything. VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame.
Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address. Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade.
After the latest update the app is effectively unusable and rolling back is not supported by their installer. Hopeless search function that cannot find exact phrases unless I enclose them in a specific proprietary syntax.